•Úlairë Attëa, Winged Predator
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 12
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
While you can spot 3 Free Peoples cultures (or 5 burdens), each companion skirmishing Úlairë Attëa loses all strength bonuses from possessions.
Each time Úlairë Attëa wins a skirmish, you may spot 3 Free Peoples cultures to make the Free Peoples player return an unbound companion to hand.
“It wheeled and went north, flying at a speed greater than any wind of Middle-earth. The stars fainted before it. It was gone.”

•Úlairë Cantëa, Winged Terror
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Enduring.
While you can spot 3 threats, Úlairë Cantëa is fierce.
Regroup: Exert Úlairë Cantëa twice to add a threat (and discard a possession if you have initiative).
“Already men were breaking away, flying wild and witless here and there, flinging away their weapons, crying out in fear, falling to the ground.”

•Úlairë Enquëa, Servant of Sauron
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 11
Vitality: 4
Site: 3
Fierce.
When you play Úlairë Enquëa, you may exert him and remove a threat to exert an unbound companion.
Maneuver: Spot 3 Nazgûl and discard a card from hand to make the Free Peoples player choose to either wound a companion bearing a condition or add a burden (limit twice per turn).
“‘His Nazgûl are still abroad. They passed over this field ere the sunrise....’”

•Úlairë Attëa, Faster Than Winds
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 12
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
Each time Úlairë Attëa wins a skirmish, you may remove a threat to add a burden.
Skirmish: Exert Úlairë Attëa twice to make him strength +1 for each twilight token you can spot (limit +6).
“At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl the Ringwraiths....”

•Úlairë Nelya, Drawn By The One
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 3
Site: 2
Enduring.
Assignment: Heal Úlairë Nelya to assign him to the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may make Úlairë Nelya fierce and damage +1 until the regroup phase to prevent this, and assign him.
“‘They’re here....They’ve come....’”

•Úlairë Otsëa, Winged Shadow
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
While in region one or region two, Úlairë Otsëa cannot be assigned to a skirmish.
Assignment: Exert Úlairë Otsëa twice to play a Orc from your discard pile (or 2 Orcs if you can spot 6 companions). If you play Grishnakh, his twilight cost is -2.
“‘But the winged Nazgûl: not yet, not yet. He won’t let them show themselves across the Great River yet, not too soon. They’re for the War - and other purposes.’”

•Úlairë Attëa, Besieging Shadow
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 12
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
When you play Úlairë Attëa, you may exert him and remove a threat to make the Free Peoples player wound the Ring-bearer or add a burden.
Assignment: If you have initiative, discard a card from hand to assign Úlairë Attëa to a companion (except the Ring-bearer.) The Free Peoples player add two threats to prevent this.
“Ever they circled above the City, like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men’s flesh.”

Okay, got all the cards I think I’m going to get, so here we go!

As before, I have kept the exact author of card anonymous (though it’s a little easier to narrow down now! ). They are NOT necessarily in the same order as I listed the names. Please vote for your favorite from each matchup...and obviously, don’t vote in your OWN matchup, please.


Dáin Ironfoot vs. NBarden:

Entry #1:

•Úlairë Attëa, Winged Predator
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 12
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
While you can spot 3 Free Peoples cultures (or 5 burdens), each companion skirmishing Úlairë Attëa loses all strength bonuses from possessions.
Each time Úlairë Attëa wins a skirmish, you may spot 3 Free Peoples cultures to make the Free Peoples player return an unbound companion to hand.
“It wheeled and went north, flying at a speed greater than any wind of Middle-earth. The stars fainted before it. It was gone.”

Entry #2:

•Úlairë Cantëa, Winged Terror
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Enduring.
While you can spot 3 threats, Úlairë Cantëa is fierce.
Regroup: Exert Úlairë Cantëa twice to add a threat (and discard a possession if you have initiative).
“Already men were breaking away, flying wild and witless here and there, flinging away their weapons, crying out in fear, falling to the ground.”

AUTHOR NOTE: Yes, he lacks the typical cannot-exert-during-skirmish text on purpose.

Doesn’t have the enduring Nazzie feel, heal to do something.

AnonymousProdigy vs. elf lvr:

Entry #1:

•Úlairë Enquëa, Servant of Sauron
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 11
Vitality: 4
Site: 3
Fierce.
When you play Úlairë Enquëa, you may exert him and remove a threat to exert an unbound companion.
Maneuver: Spot 3 Nazgûl and discard a card from hand to make the Free Peoples player choose to either wound a companion bearing a condition or add a burden (limit twice per turn).
“‘His Nazgûl are still abroad. They passed over this field ere the sunrise....’”

Interesting. IDK what to think.

Entry #2:

•Úlairë Attëa, Faster Than Winds
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 12
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
Each time Úlairë Attëa wins a skirmish, you may remove a threat to add a burden.
Skirmish: Exert Úlairë Attëa twice to make him strength +1 for each twilight token you can spot (limit +6).
“At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl the Ringwraiths....”

Love it.

Anvar vs. lem0nhead:

Entry #1:

•Úlairë Nelya, Drawn By The One
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 3
Site: 2
Enduring.
Assignment: Heal Úlairë Nelya to assign him to the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may make Úlairë Nelya fierce and damage +1 until the regroup phase to prevent this, and assign him.
“‘They’re here....They’ve come....’”

Other than mutilating the wording, nice. Interesting take on the enduring Nazzies. But...what with Keening Wail and stuff, you get a fierce damage +2 Nazzie, and without the exert during skirmish phase, you can get a damage +4 Nazzie on the fierce. Toss in Shadowy Mount or Ring of Rancor (what enduring nazzie deck DOESN’T run Ring of Rancor?) and you’ve got something OP.

Entry #2:

•Úlairë Otsëa, Winged Shadow
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
While in region one or region two, Úlairë Otsëa cannot be assigned to a skirmish.
Assignment: Exert Úlairë Otsëa twice to play a Orc from your discard pile (or 2 Orcs if you can spot 6 companions). If you play Grishnakh, his twilight cost is -2.
“‘But the winged Nazgûl: not yet, not yet. He won’t let them show themselves across the Great River yet, not too soon. They’re for the War - and other purposes.’”

More FotR than TT or RotK. I like it though. Complicated, though.

AgentDrake vs. macheteman:

No entry from mm here, so he is eliminated by default. Sorry, old friend.

Here is Drake’s winning entry:

•Úlairë Attëa, Besieging Shadow
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 12
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Fierce.
When you play Úlairë Attëa, you may exert him and remove a threat to make the Free Peoples player wound the Ring-bearer or add a burden.
Assignment: If you have initiative, discard a card from hand to assign Úlairë Attëa to a companion (except the Ring-bearer.) The Free Peoples player add two threats to prevent this.
“Ever they circled above the City, like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men’s flesh.”

Nice.

Man, Attëa seems to be all the rage, eh? No less than THREE of them! If more than one moves on, I may change them to a different Nazzie so my sets aren’t overloaded with Attëas. We’ll see how things go.

Again, please vote for your favorite from each matchup (except the last one, obviously ). I know we’re coming up on Christmas, so we’ll have a rather long voting period this time. Please get them in by next Thursday, December 27th by midnight, EST. If very few votes have trickled in by then, I may extend it into that weekend on the assumption folks are just out of town. We’ll see how it goes.

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