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DáinIronfoot

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:18 pm

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

Is there a particular advantage/disadvantage to using non-Hobbit Ring-bound companions, like the rangers in the Towers block?

I know there’s some specific cards that can hurt them, especially in the Raider

and

cultures, and some cards that can help them in the Shire

, and

cultures, but I’m rather surprised that so few have ever appeared (outside of certain Hobbits, of course). You’d think that certain Fellowship members would have had a Ring-bound version or two, and at least that certain rangers (like Faramir) would have kept it past the Towers block. Is there a particular reason Decipher seemed to abandon it? Were they deemed too powerful or something?

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NBarden

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:24 pm

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They didn’t abandon it. They abandoned Ring-Bound Rangers, that’s it. And yes, that was because they were two powerful. I think Smeagol, Sam, Frodo, and Bilbo are the only Ring-Bound companions standard legal, since TT rotated with Hunters.

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DáinIronfoot

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:42 pm

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

I know. I suppose I should have included Smeagol and not said it was just Ring-bound Hobbits, but my point remains the same. Other than those four, the idea seemed to be a flash in the pan and then POOF, it was gone.

So what made them so powerful? Cards like Arrows Thick in the Air, Forests of Ithilien, and Ranger’s Bow?

NBarden

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:47 pm

Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 5468 Location: I don't know...

Um...yeah. What are They to kill tanks, Mablung and Arrows thick in the air to kill tanks, and Arrows thick in the air to kill swarms.

But...I think it may be that when Rangers came back (hunters), making them ring-bound would break the deck by comboing them with old cards. I’m not completely sure, but I know that Ring-Bound Rangers were VERY powerful in TT.

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menace64

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:09 pm

Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 836 Location: Wichita, Kansas

NBarden wrote:

Ring-Bound Rangers were VERY powerful in TT.

They were fun, too... an aspect of play Decipher has apparently forgotten about.

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CarpeGuitarrem

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:17 am

Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 3361 Location: Franciscan University of Steubenville

Indeed. I’ve actually been working on a ring-bound Ranger deck...it’s awesome stuff.

Anyhow, using ring-bound companions means that you can avoid a few shadow cards, like Over the Isen. Oh, and Haradrim Marksman becomes unplayable.

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AnxiousChieftain

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:24 pm

Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 3947 Location: Maryland

I’m guessing that they dropped the Ring-bound rangers with ROTK since technically they weren’t traveling along with the Ring anymore. And then they probably decided that it would work best to keep it that way, for some reason or another.

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DáinIronfoot

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:11 am

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

Yeah, see, that’s the thing. I would think there would be plenty of counters to it, enough to counterbalance their power. Yes? No? Maybe so?

sickofpalantirs

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:04 pm

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I think the only ring-bound companions should be those who were offered the ring, held it, or had a chance to take it( a 1 step or at max 2 step chance)

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DáinIronfoot

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:07 pm

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

Agreed, SoP.

For that reason, I was thinking of MAYBE giving some of the original Fellowship members a Ring-bound DC version and building a little strategy around it. And I’d like a handful of other Ring-bound companions, like some TTT rangers.

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