•[b]Silthra, Offspring of Shelob
Minion • Spider
Strength: 7
Vitality: 6
Site: 7
Enduring. Damage +1.
Maneuver: Discard a Spider to play a Spider from your draw deck.
Skirmish: Heal Silthra twice to make her fierce until the regroup phase.
“‘Ugh! he’s got a sting has he? Well, we’ll get him all the same, and then we’ll hang him head downwards for a day or two.’”
is this a mdeup name? nice

•Hiwdil, Ensnarer
Minion • Spider
Strength: 6
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
While Hiwdil has no less than 3 vitaity, each time she loses a fierce skirmish, you may heal her.
“‘They’re not as fat as they might be. Been feeding none too well of late, I should guess.’”
ditto about all these titles...misspelled vitality if youi don’t have firefox...get it

•Cablas, Entangler
Minion • Spider
Strength: 6
Vitality: 6
Site: 7
Enduring. Damage +1.
While Cablas has no more than 3 vitality, he is fierce.
Each time Cablas wins a fierce skirmish, you may heal him twice to capture a character in that skirmish.
“‘It was a sharp struggle, but worth it. What nasty thick skins they have to be sure, but I’ll wager there is good juice inside.’”
nice

Lost Their Wits
Event • Skirmish
Exert any number of Spiders. Each Spider you exert is fierce until the regroup phase.
“The spiders swelled with rage, and spluttered and frothed, and hissed out horrible curses....”

•Silthra, Offspring of Shelob
Minion • Spider
Strength: 7
Vitality: 6
Site: 7
Enduring. Damage +1.
Maneuver: Discard a Spider to play a Spider from your draw deck.
Skirmish: Heal Silthra twice to make her fierce until the regroup phase.
“‘Ugh! he’s got a sting has he? Well, we’ll get him all the same, and then we’ll hang him head downwards for a day or two.’”
is this a mdeup name? nice

he only three with a name. I didn’t go TOO nuts.

[quote="sickofpalantirs"]
way overpowered make it discard a spider to make all other spiders....

Dáin’s DC Duos #179-180

I’ll let you in on a little secret: I HATE spiders. Them and bees are two of my very few phobias. The bees I hate because of a couple tramatic run-ins with them as a kid. The spiders...well, I’m not sure why, but they just really creep me out! Only time I flinched during the Lord of the Rings films was the Shelob scenes. She was a giant spider...with a stinger like a bee! Worst of both worlds. *shudder*

Shelob, as a minion in LOTR TCG, is just as frightful. I think we’re all aware of her normal stats...8/8/8 with fierceness and, most importantly, enduring. That makes her a nightmare the more wounds she takes; when exhausted, Shelob has a Sauron-like 22 strength!

Now, imagine if Shelob is not the only such minion you have to face. Imagine two such minions. Or four. Or a whole freakin’ SWARM of them.

Well get ready, because starting today, that’s exactly what the culture introduces.

I’ve kept you all waiting long enough, so we’ll start with a bang: two Duos, including the three "mini-Shelobs" that comprise the "leadership" of the spider swarm, and in card game terms, form the centerpiece of many Spider minion strategies. Along with them is a card that makes the Spiders even MORE vicious. Enjoy!

•Silthra, Offspring of Shelob
Minion • Spider
Strength: 7
Vitality: 6
Site: 7
Enduring. Damage +1.
Maneuver: Discard a Spider to play a Spider from your draw deck.
Skirmish: Heal Silthra twice to make her fierce until the regroup phase.
“‘Ugh! he’s got a sting has he? Well, we’ll get him all the same, and then we’ll hang him head downwards for a day or two.’”
Really freakin sweet.

Silthra is the Shelob of the Spiders: the biggest, the baddest, the last one you, as the Free Peoples player, probably want to face. She has an ability that can all but guarantee you can’t kill her, unless you’re somehow able to dish out 6 wounds in rapid succession. And on top of that, she becomes fierce at the same time! And if some maneuver actions bang up one of your Spiders, or you have another in your deck you really want to get in on the action (like one of the Spiders below, perhaps?) instead of one you drew, you can use her maneuver ability just swap them.

•Hiwdil, Ensnarer
Minion • Spider
Strength: 6
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
While Hiwdil has no less than 3 vitaity, each time she loses a fierce skirmish, you may heal her.
“‘They’re not as fat as they might be. Been feeding none too well of late, I should guess.’”
Okay.

Again, it’s rather difficult to take this Spider down with her auto-heal text. No damage bonus in this case, but she’s one of only a few Spiders to come with built-in fierceness. And at only , she’s also pretty cheap compared to many of her kind.

•Cablas, Entangler
Minion • Spider
Strength: 6
Vitality: 6
Site: 7
Enduring. Damage +1.
While Cablas has no more than 3 vitality, he is fierce.
Each time Cablas wins a fierce skirmish, you may heal him twice to capture a character in that skirmish.
“‘It was a sharp struggle, but worth it. What nasty thick skins they have to be sure, but I’ll wager there is good juice inside.’”
Nice!

Cablas is all about one major theme of my sets’ Spiders: capturing. They were actually the race that first put the idea of capturing and rescuing in my head, and Cablas does that concept proud. He may not be fierce very often, but when he is, somebody is almost certainly going to be captured by the end of the turn.

Lost Their Wits
Event • Skirmish
Exert any number of Spiders. Each Spider you exert is fierce until the regroup phase.
“The spiders swelled with rage, and spluttered and frothed, and hissed out horrible curses....”
Wow! Enduring spiders, all fierce. Well costed, though.

...well, so much for Cablas not being fierce very often, eh? This event is very useful for the Spiders, because there are less of them with default fierceness than there are without. And hey, it’s a free exertion for enduring minions, which isn’t too shabby either!

There’s not as many Spider cards as there were Sauron/Nazzie/Orc cards, but that doesn’t mean this will be quick. I estimate about eight (maybe nine) more Duos on these guys, so we’ll be here for a little while, at least.

Oh, and as I mentioned last time, I’m starting s over with this posting. Your first review from this point on until the end of the thread will net you a new ...and perhaps more if your review is particularly insightful.

•Silthra, Offspring of Shelob
Minion • Spider
Strength: 7
Vitality: 6
Site: 7
Enduring. Damage +1.
Maneuver: Discard a Spider to play a Spider from your draw deck.
Skirmish: Heal Silthra twice to make her fierce until the regroup phase.
“‘Ugh! he’s got a sting has he? Well, we’ll get him all the same, and then we’ll hang him head downwards for a day or two.’”

•Hiwdil, Ensnarer
Minion • Spider
Strength: 6
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
While Hiwdil has no less than 3 vitaity, each time she loses a fierce skirmish, you may heal her.
“‘They’re not as fat as they might be. Been feeding none too well of late, I should guess.’”

•Cablas, Entangler
Minion • Spider
Strength: 6
Vitality: 6
Site: 7
Enduring. Damage +1.
While Cablas has no more than 3 vitality, he is fierce.
Each time Cablas wins a fierce skirmish, you may heal him twice to capture a character in that skirmish.
“‘It was a sharp struggle, but worth it. What nasty thick skins they have to be sure, but I’ll wager there is good juice inside.’”

Lost Their Wits
Event • Skirmish
Exert any number of Spiders. Each Spider you exert is fierce until the regroup phase.
“The spiders swelled with rage, and spluttered and frothed, and hissed out horrible curses....”

Angry Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
To play, spot a wounded Spider.
When you play this minion, you may exert it once for each captured character in your support area.
“‘I’ll soon put an end to that....’”

Giant Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 5
Vitality: 7
Site: 7
Enduring.
Each time this minion takes a wound, you may exert it to make it fierce until the regroup phase.
“Then it went mad and leaped and danced and flung out its legs in horrible jerks....”

Angry Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
To play, spot a wounded Spider.
When you play this minion, you may exert it once for each captured character in your support area.
“‘I’ll soon put an end to that....’”

Giant Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 5
Vitality: 7
Site: 7
Enduring.
Each time this minion takes a wound, you may exert it to make it fierce until the regroup phase.
“Then it went mad and leaped and danced and flung out its legs in horrible jerks....”

Nice! But is there an easy way for the Spiders to get exerted/wounded in the Shadow phase?

Thanks for the reviews, all! I think I’ll leave Lost Their Wits as it is, since the majority of reviewers approve.

Dáin’s DC Duos #181

More giant spiders. Uh...yeah, that’s it. Enjoy!

Angry Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
To play, spot a wounded Spider.
When you play this minion, you may exert it once for each captured character in your support area.
“‘I’ll soon put an end to that....’”

Giant Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 4
Vitality: 7
Site: 7
Enduring.
Each time this minion takes a wound, you may exert it to make it fierce until the regroup phase.
“Then it went mad and leaped and danced and flung out its legs in horrible jerks....”

Sweet! Spiders! No need for comments here.