Let’s say that there is a minion skirmishing Grimbeorn, and one skirmshing Beorn. You could play that event in Grimbeorn’s Skirmish to affect Beorn until the regroup phase. Just like you can use Merry, Learned Guide’s skirmish action in a skirmish involving Aragorn to prevent losing the skirmish. So, you could play this event in somebody else’s skirmish, and since it lasts until the the regroup phase, Beorn would get the strength pump after all.

Dáin’s DC Duos #65

Here’s our last couple Beorn cards. Starting tomorrow, we’ll get into one of the other races in the culture...probably Elves.

Enjoy!

•A Fierce Enemy
Condition • Support Area
Assignment: If Beorn is assigned to an Orc, exert him X times to assign him to X additional Orcs.
Skirmish: Discard this condition to make Beorn strength +2 for each Orc in his skirmish.
“‘The goblins will not dare to cross the Great River for a hundred miles north of the Carrock nor to come near my house - it is well protected at night!’”

Sweet! Death to Moria! Wait, my primary deck is Moria...NO! GET RID OF THIS CARD!

Pretty self-explanatory: turn Beorn into a pin cushion for the masses of Orcs that roam Lasting Alliances, and give him a great chance at actually winning!

Now if I understand my rules correctly, Beorn’s Axe would negate the skirmish text here, yes?

•Queer Lodgings
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot 3 companions (or Beorn).
Maneuver: If the fellowship is a forest, exert a companion and discard a card from hand to heal a companion or remove a threat.
“...so soon they were all seated at Beorn’s table, and the hall had not seen such a gathering for many a year. There they had a supper, or a dinner, such as they had not had since they left the Last Homely House in the West and said good-bye to Elrond.”

Nice, but are people really gonna run that many cards? After all, this is the first set using it so you would either need to make it very powerful, or relegate it to a splash culture. If you make it very powerful, then you need at least 50+ cards for it to be viable to be run on its own, otherwise, this card isn’t gonna work that well...

You may not know it yet, but this is not only a great card for Beorn, but a good one for tying together Elves and Men. They have a few that bind them, just as in The Hobbit, but this one helps peel off all the threats that Men stack up.

Sweet! Death to Moria! Wait, my primary deck is Moria...NO! GET RID OF THIS CARD!

Nice, but are people really gonna run that many cards? After all, this is the first set using it so you would either need to make it very powerful, or relegate it to a splash culture. If you make it very powerful, then you need at least 50+ cards for it to be viable to be run on its own, otherwise, this card isn’t gonna work that well...

In Lasting Alliances alone, the combined FP and Shadow sides of currently makes up 82 cards (46 FP, 36 Shadow). That will likely up a little bit before the set is closed out, too. There’s also cards, especially of the Shadow variety, dotted throughout my other sets. You’re looking at easily 100+ cards by the time all is said and done. I’d say that’s big enough to make cards like this viable.