As always, reviews on the last Duo are still more than welcome. But with two reviews now in, I feel comfortable moving on.

Dáin’s DC Duos #176

Here’s another card dealing with the OTHER side of capturing, and a card that helps shut down the powerful Elf companions. Enjoy!

Prisoner of the Necromancer
Event • Response
Toil 1.
If a companion is about to be rescued, spot your minion (except a Spider) or Orc to prevent that.
“‘I tried to save your father, but it was too late. He was witless and wandering....’”

Useful.

•Meddle As Little As Might Be
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot 3 minions.
Each Elf is strength -1 for each other Free Peoples culture in the fellowship (limit -3).
Discard this condition if the fellowship is at a non-forest or non-mountain site.
“The Silvan Elves hid themselves in the woodland fastness beyond the Misty Mountains, and became small and scattered peoples, hardly to be distinguished from Avari....”

Limited usefulness. If it were me, I’d add a secondary effect and raise the cost, but maybe that’s not necessary.

Another one that I decided to let work with Spiders, too.

Speaking of which, only 2 more Duos before we get to those Spiders. The faster reviews come in, the faster we get there!

Question: on cards that exert minions, do you keep on using "except a Spider" because the Spiders are enduring?

Pinching
Event • Maneuver
Poke a captured dwarf. If that dwarf is Bombur, poke him as many more times as you like.

Prisoner of the Necromancer
Event • Response
Toil 1.
If a companion is about to be rescued, spot your minion (except a Spider) or Orc to prevent that.
“‘I tried to save your father, but it was too late. He was witless and wandering....’”
maybe and exert a companion

•Meddle As Little As Might Be
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot 3 minions.
Each Elf is strength -1 for each other Free Peoples culture in the fellowship (limit -3).
Regroup: Discard this condition and your minion to wound a companion (or 2 companions).
Discard this condition if the fellowship is at a non-forest or non-mountain site.
“The Silvan Elves hid themselves in the woodland fastness beyond the Misty Mountains, and became small and scattered peoples, hardly to be distinguished from Avari....”
make it unbound companion

Another one that I decided to let work with Spiders, too.

Speaking of which, only 2 more Duos before we get to those Spiders. The faster reviews come in, the faster we get there!

•Darkness Went With Them
Condition • Support Area
Shadow: Spot 3 Nazgûl (or 2 Nazgûl) and exert a Nazgûl twice to play a or Shadow condition from your draw deck. If that condition plays on a character, you may make the Free Peoples player choose to exert the Ring-bearer or add a burden.
Maneuver: Discard this condition to make each Nazgûl strength +2 until the regroup phase.
“The Nazgûl were they, the Ringwraiths, the Enemy’s most terrible servants...they cried with the voices of death.”

•Witless and Wandering
Condition
Strength -1
Resistance -2
To play, exert your minion (except a Spider) and remove a threat. Bearer must be a companion (except the Ring-bearer) bearing a ring or artifact.
Each time a burden is added, the Free Peoples player must exert bearer or make bearer resistance -1 until the end of that turn.
“‘...and had forgotten almost everything except the map and the key.’”

A bit underpowered. Maybe drop the cost to ?