•Gandalf, Disturber of the Peace
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Frodo
If Gandalf is in your starting fellowship and you can spot a Hobbit, his twilight cost is -1.
Maneuver: Exert Gandalf twice (or once if you can spot a Ring-bound Hobbit) to take a tale into hand from your discard pile.
“‘If you’re referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.’”

•Gandalf, Grey Messenger
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Elrond
To play, spot an Elf.
At site 3 [LA] or 3 [FotR], Gandalf’s twilight cost is -1.
While you can spot 4 Free Peoples races, at the start of each turn, you may draw a card.
“‘Gandalf will go; for this shall be his great task, and maybe the end of his labours.’”

I would give him muster. Good to see the Elrond signet again!

Awesome use of lore!

•Gandalf, Disturber of the Peace
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Frodo
If Gandalf is in your starting fellowship and you can spot a Hobbit, his twilight cost is -1.
Maneuver: Exert Gandalf twice (or once if you can spot a Ring-bound Hobbit) to take a tale into hand from your discard pile.
“‘If you’re referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.’”
if you can spot 2 ring bound hobbits IMHO.

•Gandalf, Grey Messenger
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Elrond
Muster. To play, spot an Elf.
At site 3 [LA] or 3 [FotR], Gandalf’s twilight cost is -1.
While you can spot 4 Free Peoples races, at the start of each turn, you may draw a card.
“‘Gandalf will go; for this shall be his great task, and maybe the end of his labours.’”

if you can spot 2 ring bound hobbits IMHO.

give him toil 1 IMHO.

Okay, I think we’re all done with Hobbits from the set, so let’s move on the natural next step: the friend of the Shirefolk himself, Gandalf!

The culture in my FotR set The Road Ahead is focused around familiar themes (especially old-school Fellowship block stuff), so there’s not a whole lot of surprises here. Gandalf himself has some strong ties, which you might expect, but as per usual, splashes well with pretty much any culture, with support cards to go along with him.

One surprise you WILL find in the set is a strong emphasis on another Wizard: Radagast, who gets several support cards as well and TWO new versions.

There will also be some cards that have little or nothing to do with Wizards. Men get a little more help to go along with the big Lakemen subculture established in the preceding set Lasting Alliances. Ealges get a little help, and there’s also one more race added the culture that, until now, has never appeared inside the culture.

For now, though, let’s take a look at everyone’s favorite Wizard. Enjoy!

•Gandalf, Disturber of the Peace
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Frodo
If Gandalf is in your starting fellowship and you can spot a Ring-bound Hobbit, his twilight cost is -1.
Maneuver: Exert Gandalf twice (or once if you can spot a Ring-bound Hobbit) to take a tale into hand from your discard pile.
“‘If you’re referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.’”
Cool card. A bit underpowerd, unless there’s a lot of tales that are getting discarded.

•Gandalf, Grey Messenger
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Elrond
Muster. To play, spot an Elf.
At site 3 [LA] or 3 [FotR], Gandalf’s twilight cost is -1.
While you can spot 4 Free Peoples races, at the start of each turn, you may draw a card.
“‘Gandalf will go; for this shall be his great task, and maybe the end of his labours.’”
Meh. It’s good, but... I don’t know. I keep thinking of the amazingness of Gandalf, Returned, and Gandalf, Leader of the Company.

•Galeroc, Swift Steed
Possession • Mount
Bearer must be a Wizard.
When you play Galeroc, spot Gandalf to play a support area possession from your draw deck or discard pile.
Skirmish: Exert bearer twice to cancel a skirmish involving him.
“‘I have one advantage: there is no horse in Mordor or in Rohan that is as swift as Galeroc.’”

•Gandalf’s Cart, Welcome Sight
Possession • Support Area
Fellowship or Regroup: Stack a artifact or possession here from hand or from play.
Maneuver: Discard a card from hand to play a card stacked here as if played from hand.
“It had a cargo of fireworks, as they rightly guessed. At Bilbo’s front door the old man began to unload: there were great bundles of fireworks of all sorts and shapes, each labelled with a large red G....”