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| hblika |
![]() Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:55 am |
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I've eagerly awaiting my Bloodlines starter decks and booster displays, and one of the cards I'm most looking forward to use is the new Boromir. With the amount of available eligible possessions for Boromir, the chance to boost his strength by quite a lot for only one exertion, is too good to pass up on. Kind of like a Gondorian Cirdan 
But the question is, how many possessions would be "smart" to play on him? By my count, it's possible to play up to 16 possessions on him (in expanded format):
Sword
Brego, Loyal Steed
Bow of Minas Tirith
Flaming Brand
Armor
Boromir's Cloak
Boromir's Shield
Boromir's Gauntles
4 x Athelas
4 x Kingsfoil
With all these in place, one exertion would bring Boromir to strength 28 (30 against Nazgul) A few of these are obviously not worth including in a deck, but how far would you go?[/list] |
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| JDRobinson |
![]() Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:34 am |
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I have a idea. If you want Boromir really beefy, play with him and a bunch of strong elves and use Last Alliance of men and elves from fellowship. give him a sword, armor, some athelas, new brego, and play with houses of healing.
He may be doomed, but will slaughter any minion for the time being. |
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| Cobra |
![]() Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:37 pm |
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Personally I wouldn't concentrate on him much. I'd just give him a Sword and Armor -- nothing ridiculous, just a solid fighter who's safe from Wormtongue.
Even in a "Super-Boromir" deck, I would only plan to stack about 5 possessions on him, and then use cards like Saga of Elendil, Strength of Spirit, or Invigorated to get the most out of them. |
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| Naphtali |
![]() Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:57 pm |
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Here is what I think about this whole super borimir thing...
Ya, sure you can play all those possesions on him. But, if you think about it that is a huge amount of twilight tokens for just one character.. Seems to me like it would be very easy to get swarmed.. 
PS... Ya, I know that this is quite an old post. I found it on page 10  |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:50 pm |
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| Glamdring |
![]() Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:37 pm |
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Cobra wrote: Personally I wouldn’t concentrate on him much. I’d just give him a Sword and Armor -- nothing ridiculous, just a solid fighter who’s safe from Wormtongue.
Even in a "Super-Boromir" deck, I would only plan to stack about 5 possessions on him, and then use cards like Saga of Elendil, Strength of Spirit, or Invigorated to get the most out of them.
I agree with Cobra. Having to many possessions in your deck would make your build weak verses swarm. |
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
![]() Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:45 am |
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| Although Elendil’s Valor + a Super Boromir would be disaster for minions. Not to mention the Swordarm of the White Tower possiblity. |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:15 am |
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| Pywils |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:35 am |
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this deck I built. Its key is to kill all minions, except 1 for Boromir to thrash down. I’ve got Boromir to overwhelm the Balrog, because my archery couldn’t get through him.
THe key for archery is getting minions to exert: you use Denethor, Last RUling Steward, Shadowplay, and Steward’s Legacy, and then finish them off with Unheeded. If that doesn’t work, use Power According To his Stature, and Gondor Bowmen
Use Daddy Twofoot to cycle, and Denethor can gain muster.
this deck has 10 possessions, but the key is Heirs of Gondor to make Boromir strongStarting Fellowship:
•Frodo, Resolute Hobbit (works best with followers/ PATHS)
•The One Ring, Anwser to all Riddles
•Pippin, Hobbit of Some Intelligence
•Boromir, Doomed Heir
38 cards (want to cut down)
Companians (2):
•Denethor, Last Ruling Steward (2)
Followers (2): (2 Shire)
•Daddy Twofoot, Next-door Neighbor (2) (cycles make haste/PATHS/unheeded for a burden)
Events (12) (9 Shire, 4 Gondor)
Make Haste (2)
Power According to his Stature (2)
Guarded City (4) (to reinforce Heirs of Gondor like crazy)
Unheeded (4) (exert Pippin to wound a minion that just exerted).
Condition (9)
•Heirs of Gondor (2)
•Houses of Healing (1)
•The Saga of Elendil (1)
•Stewards’ Legacy (1)
Shadowplay (1)
Gondor Bowmen (3)
Possessions: (12) (12 Gondor)
Flaming Brand (1) (+1str can be borne w/ one more str +2 and damage +1 vs nazzies.)
Bow of Minas Tirith (1)(+1 str, battleground exert to add 1 archery)
Ranger’s Cloak (2) (vit +1 res +1, site number is ranger or forest site is +2. Add threat or exert to make +2)
•Brego, Loyal Steed (1)(helps wounding and such)
Kingsfoil (4)
•Blade of Gondor, Sword of Boromir (2)
•Boromir’s Shield
Artifact (1) (1 Gondor)
Throne of Minas Tirth (1) (each time a Gondor man wins a skrimish you can add gondor token)
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:42 am |
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| Maybe use the Isildur RB or the new Faramir RB. Faramir + Faramir’s Bow would be nice wounding. Exhaust em with your assortment of wounding cards, then make a mini IB mechanism that activates in the skirmish phase. (hm...Ithilien Blade without the Ithilie Blade...) |
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