To specific. And do you want it to be skirmishing a fierce minion or in a fierce skirmish?

Dáin’s DC Duos #70

Well, thanks to a couple quick reviews of Duo #69 and my wife being up late working on material for her students tomorrow, here’s another Duo for those who are up way too late like me. Enjoy!

9 P.M. ain’t that late Dain. I assume it’s later for you.

•Thranduil, The Elvenking
Companion • Elf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
While you can spot a Elf, Thranduil is also a Elf.
Thranduil is strength +1 for each Free Peoples culture you can spot (limit +3).
All archery and skirmish events of the same culture as Thranduil are twilight cost -1.
“‘Our advantage in numbers will be enough, if in the end it must come to unhappy blows.’”

I like it, although it’s worded in a tricky format. Good card. GP for you.

•Oropher, Lord of the Silvan Elves
Companion • Elf
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While you can spot an Elf, Oropher is also an Elf.
Maneuver: Exert Oropher and an companion to play a Elf from your draw deck.
“Despite the desire of the Silvan Elves to meddle as little as might be in the affairs of the Noldor and Sindar, or of any other people, Dwarves, Men, or Orcs, Oropher had the wisdom to forsee that peace would not return unless Sauron was overcome.”

Honestly, I think 8 strength is too strong. I’d drop his to 7 or maybe even 6. Also, the Maneuver event should only be allowed once per turn.

Dáin’s DC Duos #70

Well, thanks to a couple quick reviews of Duo #69 and my wife being up late working on material for her students tomorrow, here’s another Duo for those who are up way too late like me. Enjoy!

•Thranduil, The Elvenking
Companion • Elf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
While you can spot a Elf, Thranduil is also a Elf.
Thranduil is strength +1 for each Free Peoples culture you can spot (limit +3).
All archery and skirmish events of the same culture as Thranduil are twilight cost -1.
“‘Our advantage in numbers will be enough, if in the end it must come to unhappy blows.’”

Huh? Weird...so once you get him in play as a elf, he spots himself to remain a elf even if he’s the only elf there. Cool.

This is an example of a dual-culture card, which I’ll have several of in my sets. I see no reason such cards can’t exist. In fact, many of my dual-culture cards will start out with both cultures, with something like /.

As for this actual card, it’s both better than weaker than the original version, King of the Woodland Realm. That versions makes archers into hunters as well, and has some nice healing ability for Elves. This one focuses a little more on himself, getting potentially huge (9 strength). But never fear: he certainly benefits all Elves with his last line of text, making the archery and skirmish events of potentially two cultures ( and ) cheaper.

•Oropher, Lord of the Silvan Elves
Companion • Elf
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While you can spot an Elf, Oropher is also an Elf.
Maneuver: Exert Oropher and an companion to play a Elf from your draw deck.
“Despite the desire of the Silvan Elves to meddle as little as might be in the affairs of the Noldor and Sindar, or of any other people, Dwarves, Men, or Orcs, Oropher had the wisdom to forsee that peace would not return unless Sauron was overcome.”

Same here. Creepy... I wonder, can you use his special to then play Thranduil...

There are few cards that bring the two Elf cultures together better than the founder of the Woodland Realm himself. Not only can he play around in both different Elf cultures, but he can literally bring them together by splashing in with some Elves and bringing his brethren with him.

Okay, tomorrow may be a little busy for me in the morning, but I’ll get some more up at some point. I promise.

Dáin’s DC Duos #69
•Alfirin, Elven Warrior
Companion • Elf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
To play, spot a Elf.
While skirmishing an Orc, Alfirin is strength +1.
While skirmishing a fierce minion, Alfirin is damage +1.
“The yells were deafening. The rocks were stained black with goblin blood.”
really what can i say, basic but good.

•Hallodol, Bowman of Mirkwood
Companion • Elf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Archer. Hunter 1.
While the fellowship is a a river or forest, the fellowship archery total is +1.
“...no use against the arrows of the elves that could hit a bird’s eye in the dark.”
boy this is kinda boring good card.

•Thranduil, The Elvenking
Companion • Elf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
While you can spot a Elf, Thranduil is also a Elf.
Thranduil is strength +1 for each Free Peoples culture you can spot (limit +3).
All archery and skirmish events of the same culture as Thranduil are twilight cost -1.
“‘Our advantage in numbers will be enough, if in the end it must come to unhappy blows.’”
how about for each other free peoples culture, Idon’t know how that would interact with the first ability thoguh.


•Oropher, Lord of the Silvan Elves
Companion • Elf
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While you can spot an Elf, Oropher is also an Elf.
Maneuver: Exert Oropher and an companion to play a Elf from your draw deck.
“Despite the desire of the Silvan Elves to meddle as little as might be in the affairs of the Noldor and Sindar, or of any other people, Dwarves, Men, or Orcs, Oropher had the wisdom to forsee that peace would not return unless Sauron was overcome.”

I like it, although it’s worded in a tricky format. Good card. GP for you.

Same here. Creepy... I wonder, can you use his special to then play Thranduil...

Dáin’s DC Duos #71

Before we get too much farther with the Elves, I’d like to get into their possessions. So here’s a couple ranged weapons. If reviews come in early enough, we’ll get to hand weapons and maybe even some other stuff later today. Enjoy!

Bow of Mirkwood
Possession • Ranged Weapon
Bearer must be an Elf companion.
If bearer is a hunter or a Elf, he or she is strength +1.
Archery: Exert bearer to play a or archery event; its twilight cost is -1.
The bows of the Wood-elves, while small and simply made, are deadly accurate, even at long ranges.

Nice. Good with hunters as well.

Obviously better with Elves, but far from useless with their brethren, either. One thing I personally like about this is that it gives you the option of playing archery events more easily with Elves (something they could use since they’re going to be such a smaller culture) and vice-versa.

Greenwood Longbow
Possession • Ranged Weapon
Bearer must be an Elf.
Bearer is an archer.
At the start of the archery phase, if bearer is a Elf or is at a forest site, you may make the fellowship archery -1 (to a minimum of 0) to heal bearer.
Made of dark wood and carved in the style of Númenórean longbows, the bows of Mirkwood are infallible and deadly weapons.

Okay...I can just play 4 of these, 4 elven bow, and Legolas’ Bow, and voila, 9 archery. Run Legolas, Woodland Emmisary, and even NG’s dead. 10 wounds, then Break the Charge, now do you see why none of the ranged weapons say bearer is an archer? Now consider running Aragorn’s Bow with the new Anduril and a Ranger’s Cloak. Yes, 8 archery, Legolas exerts, Aragorn can dish out up to 5 wounds. That’s not including Break the Charge and Double Shot. There’s a reason only one ranged weapon gives people archery...

A new twist on an old favorite: the good old Elven Bow. All this does is slap on a new ability and up the cost a little to compensate.

What this lets you do (especially for Elves, but really with any Elf as long as there’s a lot of forests on the sitepath) is have options. If you have a couple Elves with Greenwood Longbows when the archery phase rolls around, you can either add their archery to the total as normal, OR if you don’t really need that archery at the time, heal them up instead. That may not mean you’re not going to use any archery, though. Throw this one of the many versions of Legolas that exerts to use some cool archery ability, for example. If he’s wounded already, you can heal him, then exert him right afterwards to use his ability. It basically gives you a free exertion!

Again, consider elf archery with Legolas, Greenleaf at a forest. Suddenly, you pick where all your archery goes.

Greenwood Longbow
Possession • Ranged Weapon
Bearer must be an Elf archer.
At the start of the archery phase, if bearer is a Elf or is at a forest site, you may make the fellowship archery -1 (to a minimum of 0) to heal bearer.
Made of dark wood and carved in the style of Númenórean longbows, the bows of Mirkwood are infallible and deadly weapons.