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How playable is White Hand Berserker?

5 (best)

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[ 6 ] 60%

[ 4 ] 40%

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Cobra

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:45 pm

Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 1202 Location: Austin, TX, USA

White Hand Berserker, AKA "Uruk-hai Cupid" -- a Valentine’s Day spoiler. Laughing

This card looks pretty sweet on paper, but how does he work in an actual deck? Site control decks will probably want to use hunter minions (see Chasing Uruk), which White Hand Bersker is not. Between the minions, the site-control cards, and the cards to take full advantage of controlled sites, I doubt the revitalized Uruk-hai site-control decktype will have much room for "luxury items" like multi-culture haNOLINKte anyway.

Another strike against White Hand Berserker is the existence of the stronger (IMO) Merciless Berserker, who replaces the two archery shots with a targeted exertion and a threat.

These are all fairly subtle points; the new Berserker is a good card (cost and stats are right where they should be this time! Wink

), I just think he’ll be trumped by better cards. I give him a 3.

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NBarden

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:48 pm

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First of all, his stats are good, which is a big plus. So, even considering his text doesn’t activate, he’s still a decent card. And if his text does activate, he’s even better.

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Cobra

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:57 pm

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Something I didn’t consider in my original review was that even if Merciless Berserker is better against multi-cultural fellowships, you might want to have more than four cards in your deck for that purpose. If you’re running Uruk-hai site control and go up against a LOT of Three Hunters fellowships, it might not be unreasonable to run playsets of both!

That’s a bit of a stretch, but still, it gives the card a little more sense of purpose. Call it a high 3. Wink

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AnxiousChieftain

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:04 pm

Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 3947 Location: Maryland

With the Refuge deck and Three Hunters deck, fighting against 4 or 5 (or even 6 or 7!) cultures is fairly common. Imagine 3 copies of this minion against a 4-culture fellowship: 12 extra archery! Or 4 copies against a 7 culture fellowship... 40 archery! Very Happy

I’d say he’s good if your meta uses multi-cultural fellowships. Him + Merciless Berserker could really rip apart a deck.

A 4 from me!

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DáinIronfoot

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:55 pm

Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 4594 Location: Beltsville, MD, USA

I agree with the sentiments of others. Throw him in with Merciless Berserker and you’ve got some good old beatdown.

What really gets my attention is that with this guy being non-unique, having a couple stacks the ability and makes the archery phase a bane for multi-culture fellowships. Like AC said, double-digit archery is pretty easy.

I give him a 4.

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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:08 pm

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he gets the job done vs. multi-culture. though if it isn’t in your meta, he is kinda worthless. I just realized something, if you are playing site control, you could splash him in to deal with mutil-culture problems!

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NBarden

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:36 pm

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couple with Gothmog, Lieutenant of Morgul Twisted Evil

so he can exhaust a fellowship with Gothmog, and he’s damage +1 and Gothmog’s fierce. Pretty easy kills....

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Mouth of Saruman

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:59 pm

Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 190 Location: Orthanc

Interesting card. I don’t know how many mutli-culture decks there are in the current gameplay but White Hand Berserker certainly looks playable nonetheless. This would certainly be a thorn in the side of the Gandalf/Gondor (Noble Leaders) decks that used to be so popular. I give it a 4.

Cobra

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:14 pm

Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 1202 Location: Austin, TX, USA

Actually, Gandalf/Gondor fellowships (assuming a Gondor