After trying to get in to the game during my middle school years, I only ended up with an FOTR Gandalf and Aragorn starter, and nobody to play with. Fast forward to now, I randomly thought about the game a few weeks ago, looked in to things, and realized I could get a lot of the cards and build a nice pool, treating it like a "Living Card Game".
I've currently been able to get a box of every Fellowship block set. I'm thinking of getting another FOTR box, since, while I got some cards I always wanted (
Bow of the Galadhrim), I still am missing a number of rares I wouldn't mind having (
Legolas Greenleaf, Cave Troll,
Goblin Armory, etc). My local gaming store will also cut me a deal on a box of Siege of Gondor.
I'm looking for advice for the order I should try and acquire things. I have every starter set except ROTK Aragorn, and have mostly been building FOTR block decks for friends to play with. I only want Movie block stuff (not including Reflections), since I'm not a fan of the site path becoming random and the removal of the Shadow cultures (which I loved). There was too much good stuff to pass up in Tower and King block. I'm thinking I should just build FOTR Block, Tower Block, and King Block, but I also feel like I might want to build some Movie Block decks so I can team up Moria Archers with the Morgul orc archer initiative stuff.
I never followed the uber-competitiveness of the game, I just want to be able to play and have fun and tinker. It just took me half a lifetime to get to this point.
Thanks for the advice. I was super glad to find this site, as there's hardly anything online about this game anymore.