Fill in the Blank Season 1: Lairs #9 (Rule change!)

[SGollum]

(1) Tasty Fish
Possession
To play, add a burden. Discard a card from Smeagol or your support area to make Smeagol strength +1 for each burden you can spot.

"It's nice to eat a tasty fish, so juicy sweet!"

It's unclear how it's meant to work. The way it's worded now, the "discard a card from Sméagol" skill would last (just as events do) during the phase in which you play it only (pretty useless during Fellowship). It also lacks the usual "plays on / bearer must be" part in the first sentence.

Interesting card, btw. I believe it needs some limit like "once per phase", to not make it Cirdan-ish.

I just removed the mistakes and bad wording. Not doing good this week!

[Phallen Cassidy]

•Dared to Pass the Doors
Condition • Support Area
Tale.
Each Dwarf is strength -1 for each companion in the dead pile.
Fellowship: Discard a companion from hand to make each Dwarf companion strength +3 and damage +1 for each companion in the dead pile until the regroup phase. 
"'But now we spoke of it again with longing, and yet with dread....'"

My favorite card from the bunch, but I couldn't vote for it because it's bad at 9. Your deck will have a hard time doubling when you have 2+ dead companions, but if you have this card on the table at site 8 with Gimli, BoG then you win. You can also make risky doubles up until that point because killing companions is your goal. Still, a really neat card. There should've been more FP cards with negative and positive aspects.

[TelTura]

•Ithilian Quartermaster
Ally • Man
Strength: 5
Vitality: 2
Ranger.
This ally participates in archery fire.
Fellowship: Discard a fortification and spot a ranger bearing no possessions to play a possession from your draw deck on that ranger.



Surely there are guys slinking behind the scenes, keeping Our Troops armed while only battling on the periphery where possible?  Also rangers don't have homes, so there's that.

[menace64]

I never really figured out what to submit this week. So, have a strength pump.

Worse Than Orcs
Event • Skirmish
Remove up to 4 Orc cards in your discard pile from the game. For each card removed, make Shelob strength +2.
"Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within."

If you go all-out it makes Shelob strength +8.

[Durin's Heir]

I believe cards should specify if are Shadow or Free Peoples, between parentheses. Obviously SGollum's is FP and menace's is Shadow, but would be easier to read if was specified beforehand.

[menace64]

I believe cards should specify if are Shadow or Free Peoples, between parentheses. Obviously SGollum's is FP and menace's is Shadow, but would be easier to read if was specified beforehand.

Good reminder. I'll add the tags as I compile the next round.