The White Council Set - Rohan

[caprylz]

Today's culture is Rohan, which in this set builds primarily on one concept: revenge. As the dead pile fills with unique Rohan companions, those who remain get stronger. Tell me what you think!

Other cultures:
The One Ring and Sites
Dwarves
Gandalf
Shire
Wraith
Uruks
Men


•Eomer, King of the Riddermark
Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
For each unique companion in the dead pile, Eomer is strength +1.
Each time a unique companion is killed, Eomer is damage +1 until the regroup phase.

•Eowyn, Uncaged
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
Valiant.
Each time a unique companion is killed, you may exert Eowyn X times to make a Shadow player discard one of his or her cards from play with a twilight cost of X.

•Theoden, Horsemaster
Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Valiant.
Each time the fellowship moves during the regroup phase, you may draw a card for each mounted companion. Then discard a card at random from hand for every companion that is not mounted.

•Grimbold, Of Grimslade
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Valiant.
While this companion is in the dead pile, the twilight cost of each skirmish event is -1.

•Deorwine, King's Rider
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Valiant.
To play, spot a companion. While Deorwine bears a mount and a ranged weapon, he is an archer.

Hornburg Axe
Possession • Hand Weapon
Strength: +3
Bearer must be a companion.

•Snowmane, Faithful Servant
Possession • Mount
Resistance: +1
Bearer must be a companion.
At the start of each skirmish involving bearer, each minion skirmishing bearer must exert (or, if bearer is Theoden, you may exert him twice to wound each minion skirmishing him instead).

•Hasufel
Possession • Mount
To play, spot a man. Bearer must be a Man, Elf, or Wizard.
At the start of each skirmish involving bearer, each minion skirmishing bearer must exert.
Response: If bearer is killed, add to transfer this possession to another eligible bearer.

•The Golden Shield
Possession • Shield
Bearer must be a ] man.
The minion archery total is -1.
Fellowship: If bearer is Theoden, add to make a man gain valiant until the regroup phase.

Barricade
Possession • Support Area
Fortification. Toil .
Manuever: Spot a man and discard this possession to skip the archery phase. The move limit this turn is -1.
Response: If a a machine's or engine's special ability is used, spot a man and discard this possession to prevent that.

•Paid for with Many Lives
Condition • Support Area
Each time a valiant companion is about to be killed, you may remove a threat.
Response: If a valiant companion is killed in a skirmish involving a fierce minion, discard this condition to make that minion lose fierce until the regroup phase.

For Your People
Condition
Resistance: +1
Plays on a companion. Bearer is valiant.
Response: If bearer is about to be killed, spot a man with less strength than bearer assigned to a skirmish to remove all minions from that skirmish.

We Shall Have Peace
Condition • Support Area
Each time a companion wins a skirmish, add a token here.
At the start of the regroup phase, wound a minion for each token here. Discard this condition.

Answer for the Westfold
Event • Response
If a companion is about to be killed, spot X threats to make a Shadow player place X wounds on his or her minions.

Come Down, Grima
Event • Manuever
Spot Theoden (or 3 valiant companions) to discard Grima. The Shadow player may discard Saruman or a Shadow artifact to prevent this.

Even as they Lay
Event • Response
If a companion is killed in a skirmish, exert any number of valiant companions to make each of those companions strength +2 and damage +1 until the regroup phase.

Like Rain on the Mountain
Event • Skirmish
Tale.
Exert a companion to make him or her strength +1 for each companion in the dead pile.

Make for Helm's Deep
Event • Fellowship
Spot a companion to choose a Shadow player to play the fellowship's next site. If that site is not a battlegroud or a plains site, you may remove .

Mighty Company
Event • Response
Tale.
If a companion is killed in a skirmish, exert a minion for each unique companion in your dead pile.

Ride Now
Event • Assignment
Spot any number of mounted companions and exert each other companion twice to prevent any Shadow player from playing assignment events or using assignment special abilities until the regroup phase.

Stabbed in the Back
Event • Manuever
Spot Grima and a companion to make a Shadow player wound another minion twice.

The Beacons are Lit
Event • Manuever
Exert a companion twice and spot 7 beacons to play a companion from your draw deck or discard pile.

Unburdened with Treasures
Event • Fellowship or Regroup
Discard X possessions to remove X.

[Phallen Cassidy]

Again, really interesting set of cards. I think giving the Free Peoples some benefits to losing a companion makes for more meaningful decisions, even though my personal opinion is that having expendable companions is an undervalued strategy. I assume "beacons" are a Gondor card type? I appreciate that Valiant is getting some attention (another undervalued strategy, though not by as much), and for the mounted "strategy" the cost of explicitly punishing non-mounted companions is well deserved since having a mount is such a benefit in and of itself.

This is turning out to be a really solid set of dream cards. They push the capabilities of the game's mechanics/rules without being confusing and the cards are individually well costed, which in my opinion are exactly what dream cards should do.

[caprylz]

Thanks Phallen! That means a lot! The cards were really fun to make.