•Smaug, Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities
Minion • Dragon
Strength: 16
Vitality: 6
Site: 9
Damage +1. Fierce. Hunter 2.
Smaug’s twilight cost is -1 for each site you control.
Smaug may not take wounds during the archery phase (except from special abilities) and may not bear possessions.
Smaug is strength +2 for each threat you can spot (limit +6).
“‘My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!’”

He’s good... but it’d take a really, really weird deck to use him. Site control and threats? Sounds like an and [Uruk-Hai] mix to me.

I love the lore!

•Smaug, Last of the Great Fire-drakes
Minion • Dragon
Strength: 17
Vitality: 6
Site: 9
Damage +2.
Smaug’s twilight cost is -1 for each threat you spot and site you control (limit -8 ).
Smaug may not take wounds during the archery phase (except from special abilities) and may not bear possessions.
Archery: Exert Smaug to make the minion archery total +1 (limit +3).
“Fire leaped from the dragon’s jaws....the trees by the shores shone like copper and like blood with leaping shadows of dense black at their feet.”

This one just plain rules. No complaints here.

Breeze From the Black East
Event • Maneuver
Weather.
Spot no threats to play an or minion and add two threats. Then, if you can spot a weather condition, remove .
“...it was ominous and dreary even in the light of morning. Now it was lost and gone, blotted in the dark.”

looks pretty good. just it costs so the only twilight benefit you can get is .

Desolation and a Dragon
Event • Shadow
Play an minion; its twilight cost is -1 for each card you can spot. The Free Peoples player may add 2 threats to prevent spotting any cards in this way.
“‘The Dragon Sauron might use with terrible effect. Often I said to myself: ‘I must find some means of dealing with Smaug....We must disturb Sauron’s plans.’’”

same thing. cards that reduce twilight shouldn’t relly have a twilight cost.

Lake-town
Site 8 [LA]
River. Dwelling. Site 9 minions are not roaming.

its a site 8 but minions are not roaming at site 9?

Smaug’s Lair
Site 9 [LA]
Underground. Shadow: Remove a threat to play Smaug from your draw deck or hand; Smaug’s twilight cost is -5.

looks pretty good. just it costs so the only twilight benefit you can get is .


same thing. cards that reduce twilight shouldn’t relly have a twilight cost.

its a site 8 but minions are not roaming at site 9?

•Smaug, Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities
Minion • Dragon
Strength: 16
Vitality: 6
Site: 9
Damage +1. Fierce. Hunter 2.
Smaug’s twilight cost is -1 for each site you control.
Smaug may not take wounds during the archery phase (except from special abilities) and may not bear possessions.
Smaug is strength +2 for each threat you can spot (limit +6).
“‘My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!’”

•Smaug, Last of the Great Fire-drakes
Minion • Dragon
Strength: 17
Vitality: 6
Site: 9
Damage +2.
Smaug’s twilight cost is -1 for each threat you spot and site you control (limit -8 ).
Smaug may not take wounds during the archery phase (except from special abilities) and may not bear possessions.
Archery: Exert Smaug to make the minion archery total +1 (limit +3).
“Fire leaped from the dragon’s jaws....the trees by the shores shone like copper and like blood with leaping shadows of dense black at their feet.”

Breeze From the Black East
Event • Maneuver
Weather.
Spot no threats to play an or minion and add two threats. Then, if you can spot a weather condition, remove .
“...it was ominous and dreary even in the light of morning. Now it was lost and gone, blotted in the dark.”

you get a little twilight reduction thrown in for no additional charge!

Desolation and a Dragon
Event • Shadow
Play an minion; its twilight cost is -1 for each card you can spot. The Free Peoples player may add 2 threats to prevent spotting any cards in this way.
“‘The Dragon Sauron might use with terrible effect. Often I said to myself: ‘I must find some means of dealing with Smaug....We must disturb Sauron’s plans.’’”

Lake-town
Site 8 [LA]
River. Dwelling. Site 9 minions are not roaming.

Smaug’s Lair
Site 9 [LA]
Underground. Shadow: Remove a threat to play Smaug from your draw deck or hand; Smaug’s twilight cost is -5.

Thanks for the review, EL!

Okay, I think it’s safe to move on. If anyone still wants to review Smaug, feel free. But for now....

Dáin’s DC Duos #92

One of the biggest concerns so far has been playing a behemoth like Smaug. He’s pretty expensive. Here’s a couple cards to help with that...as well as a couple bonus sites that help out. Enjoy!

Breeze From the Black East
Event • Maneuver
Weather.
Spot no threats to play an or minion and add two threats. Then, if you can spot a weather condition, remove .
“...it was ominous and dreary even in the light of morning. Now it was lost and gone, blotted in the dark.”
Yeeowch! A very nice card, though. I like it. Pretty cool. Except, should read "if you can spot a weather condition, add ".
Tailor-made for Smaug, Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities, adding two threats right off the bat to bump his strength up by 4. And with another weather card around (there are several in my sets), you get a little twilight reduction thrown in for no additional charge!

Desolation and a Dragon
Event • Shadow
Play an minion; its twilight cost is -1 for each card you can spot. The Free Peoples player may add 2 threats to prevent spotting any cards in this way.
“‘The Dragon Sauron might use with terrible effect. Often I said to myself: ‘I must find some means of dealing with Smaug....We must disturb Sauron’s plans.’’”
Hey, not bad. Orcs helping out Smaug, eh?
And now we have a straight-up twilight reduction method. Sure, it requires an / pairing, but it just might be worth it. Either you get a twilight reduction OR you get two threats for Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities to play with again!

And now those sites I mentioned....

Lake-town
Site 8 [LA]
River. Dwelling. Site 9 minions are not roaming.
Pretty nice.
Smaug’s Lair
Site 9 [LA]
Underground. Shadow: Remove a threat to play Smaug from your draw deck or hand; Smaug’s twilight cost is -5.
Oh, I’m lovin’ this one!! Sweet stuff!

Came From The North
Event • Shadow
Spot a Dwarf or Man and remove a threat to play an or minion from your draw deck.
“‘The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and the pine-trees on the Mountain creaking and cracking in the wind.’”

The Gathering of the Clouds
Event • Maneuver
Weather.
Exert a Dragon or Orc to make the Free Peoples player choose to either add 2 burdens or 2 threats.
“Still more suddenly a darkness came on with dreadful swiftness! A black cloud hurried over the sky. Winter thunder on a wild wind rolled roaring up and rumbled in the Mountain, and lightning lit its peak.”

•Threat Of Oncoming Winter
Condition • Support Area
Weather. To play, spot an minion.
Each time the fellowship moves from a sanctuary, dwelling, or underground site, exert X companions who do not bear cloaks, where X is the number of threats you can spot.
Maneuver: Play a weather event from your draw deck, then discard this condition.
“A bitter easterly breeze blew....It swirled over and round the arms of the Mountain into the valley, and sighed among the rocks. After their long time in the stewing depths of the dragon-haunted caverns, they shivered in the sun.”

Breeze From the Black East
Event • Maneuver
Weather.
Spot no threats to play an or minion and add two threats. Then, if you can spot a weather condition, add .
“...it was ominous and dreary even in the light of morning. Now it was lost and gone, blotted in the dark.”

Desolation and a Dragon
Event • Shadow
Play an minion; its twilight cost is -1 for each card you can spot. The Free Peoples player may add 2 threats to prevent any cost reduction for that minion.
“‘The Dragon Sauron might use with terrible effect. Often I said to myself: ‘I must find some means of dealing with Smaug....We must disturb Sauron’s plans.’’”

Lake-town
Site 8 [LA]
River. Dwelling. Site 9 minions are not roaming.

Smaug’s Lair
Site 9 [LA]
Underground. Shadow: Remove a threat to play Smaug from your draw deck or hand; Smaug’s twilight cost is -5.

Came From The North
Event • Shadow
Spot a Dwarf or Man and remove a threat to play an or minion from your draw deck.
“‘The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and the pine-trees on the Mountain creaking and cracking in the wind.’”

The Gathering of the Clouds
Event • Maneuver
Weather.
Exert a Dragon or Orc to make the Free Peoples player choose to either add 2 burdens or 2 threats.
“Still more suddenly a darkness came on with dreadful swiftness! A black cloud hurried over the sky. Winter thunder on a wild wind rolled roaring up and rumbled in the Mountain, and lightning lit its peak.”

•Threat Of Oncoming Winter
Condition • Support Area
Weather. To play, spot an minion.
Each time the fellowship moves from a sanctuary, dwelling, or underground site, exert X companions who do not bear cloaks, where X is the number of threats you can spot.
Maneuver: Play a weather event from your draw deck, then discard this condition.
“A bitter easterly breeze blew....It swirled over and round the arms of the Mountain into the valley, and sighed among the rocks. After their long time in the stewing depths of the dragon-haunted caverns, they shivered in the sun.”