•Sauron, The Necromancer
Minion • Maia
Strength: 18
Vitality: 5
Site: 6
Lurker. Damage +1. Enduring. Fierce. Hunter 1.
For each and Shadow card you spot, Sauron’s twilight cost is -1.
When you play Sauron, you may take control of a site.
At the start of each skirmish involving Sauron, you may exert him to make him strength +X, where X is the number of burdens or threats you can spot.
“‘...even you, Bilbo, won’t need me to tell you tales of that black sorcerer.’”

•Úlairë Khamûl, Master of Dol Guldur
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 4
Site: 3
Lurker. Fierce. Hunter 2.
While you can spot 3 burdens or 3 threats, Úlairë Khamûl is strength +1 and damage +1.
Response: If the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, exert Úlairë Khamûl to add a burden or a threat instead.
“Now at that time the Chieftain of the Ringwraiths dwelt in Minas Morgul with six companions, while the second to the Chief, Khamûl the Shadow of the East, abode in Dol Guldur as Sauron’s lieutenant....”

•Sauron, The Necromancer
Minion • Maia
Strength: 18
Vitality: 5
Site: 6
Lurker. Damage +1. Enduring. Fierce. Hunter 1.
For each and Shadow card you spot, Sauron’s twilight cost is -1.
When you play Sauron, you may take control of a site.
At the start of each skirmish involving Sauron, you may exert him to make him strength +X, where X is the number of burdens or threats you can spot.
“‘...even you, Bilbo, won’t need me to tell you tales of that black sorcerer.’”
nice!

•Úlairë Khamûl, Master of Dol Guldur
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 4
Site: 3
Lurker. Fierce. Hunter 2.
While you can spot 3 burdens or 3 threats, Úlairë Khamûl is strength +1 and damage +1.
Response: If the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, exert Úlairë Khamûl to add a burden or a threat instead.
“Now at that time the Chieftain of the Ringwraiths dwelt in Minas Morgul with six companions, while the second to the Chief, Khamûl the Shadow of the East, abode in Dol Guldur as Sauron’s lieutenant....”

Wow! Very powerful, but a bit overpowered. I would raise his cost to . I think I have made a Sauron with this subtitle, but that was back in the day... before I was a mod, even. Cool card!

I would make it just hunter 1, but he is awesome! These cards deserve a , hands down.

A long while back, we covered the Free Peoples side of the new (Mirkwood) culture, and it was pretty well-recieved. Filled with a slew of Elves, Eagles, a brown Wizard and a grumpy shape-shifter, Free Peoples were pretty varied, yet all still managed to work together pretty well thanks to a wide variety of possessions, events, conditions, and other support cards.

Now we come to the darker, scarier side of Mirkwood...the Shadow side. It’s a little smaller than the FP side, but what it lacks in size, it makes up in power. Spiders become a race much larger and scarier than just Shelob, with a whole army of anrgy, hissing, enduring arachnids crawling after the fellowship. Orcs from Dol Guldur follow the orders of their Nazgûl (yes, I said Nazgûl ) and track the fellowship’s movements, harrassing them if they stray too close to their shadowy realm. And Sauron himself manipulates events from the background...or swoops in to wreak havoc himself when the time is right.

Many evil creatures reside in the former Greenwood the Great. Like the Haunted Forest in The Wizard of Oz, I’d turn back if I were you.

Dáin’s DC Duos #161

So...how should we start? Spiders? Orcs? Nazgûl? Hmmm.

I think we’ll start with the big boys. The REALLY big boys. Enjoy!

•Sauron, The Necromancer
Minion • Maia
Strength: 18
Vitality: 5
Site: 6
Lurker. Damage +1. Enduring. Fierce. Hunter 1.
For each and Shadow card you spot, Sauron’s twilight cost is -1.
When you play Sauron, you may take control of a site.
At the start of each skirmish involving Sauron, you may exert him to make him strength +X, where X is the number of burdens or threats you can spot.
“‘...even you, Bilbo, won’t need me to tell you tales of that black sorcerer.’”
Wow. I mean, wow. WOW. Lots of abilites there. Drop lurker, IMO, it does you no good (so far), and it seems like a lot of keywords already. The twilight reduction is cool, and so is the start of skirmish ability. It’s balanced, though, since it has 6 less strength than our usual dark lord.

This is actually one of TWO versions of Sauron found in the set. (For those who have been following recently-covered cultures, I bet you can figure out what culture and time period the other is from. ) I didn’t intend for him to have every concievable keyword you can fit on one character, it just kind of worked out that way. He’s pretty weak (for Sauron), but with that skirmish ability, he can actually exceed his normal 24 strength in the right circumstances.

•Úlairë Khamûl, Master of Dol Guldur
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 4
Site: 3
Lurker. Fierce. Hunter 2.
While you can spot 3 burdens or 3 threats, Úlairë Khamûl is strength +1 and damage +1.
Response: If the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, exert Úlairë Khamûl to add a burden or a threat instead.
“Now at that time the Chieftain of the Ringwraiths dwelt in Minas Morgul with six companions, while the second to the Chief, Khamûl the Shadow of the East, abode in Dol Guldur as Sauron’s lieutenant....”
I love the extra nazzie. LOVE. Anyways, on to the card. The strength is balanced, with hunter and the ability. Lurker makes sense here, since he has an exerting ability. Reminds me a bit of the MoM Nelya. It’d be great for nazgul strategies, old and new. GP.

Úlairë...who? I don’t expect bringing a brand new Nazgûl into the mix will sit too well with some reviewers, and though I try to be open to reviewer’s opinions, it will take a lot to make me budge on this one. I think Khamûl, the ONLY named Nazgûl in Tolkien’s works, deserves a place in the card game based on those works. Decipher decided to give some of this character’s material to Úlairë Attëa, and while I think that, in general, their naming of the Nazgûl is fine, Khamûl should have been part of it from the beginning. And since every other Nazgûl has "Úlairë" (for "number") in front of its name, I decided to keep it here (even though it doesn’t make a ton of sense).

Anyway, as the Witch-king’s right hand...uh, wraith, Khamûl is a major character in my sets, with three versions (combined) in the first and second sets alone. His versions have varying abilities, of course, but they usually revolve around a specific theme or two. What those themes are, you’ll just have to wait and see when I post other versions of him.

So, again, unless the whole forum turns around and tells me I’m nuts, the chaarcter (and his name) stick. I ask you to judge his stats and text, not his name. Thanks!

Oh, and of course, the s are back on with this being a new thread. Yoru first review nets you a ...no questions asked.

A long while back, we covered the Free Peoples side of the new (Mirkwood) culture, and it was pretty well-recieved. Filled with a slew of Elves, Eagles, a brown Wizard and a grumpy shape-shifter, Free Peoples were pretty varied, yet all still managed to work together pretty well thanks to a wide variety of possessions, events, conditions, and other support cards.

Now we come to the darker, scarier side of Mirkwood...the Shadow side. It’s a little smaller than the FP side, but what it lacks in size, it makes up in power. Spiders become a race much larger and scarier than just Shelob, with a whole army of anrgy, hissing, enduring arachnids crawling after the fellowship. Orcs from Dol Guldur follow the orders of their Nazgûl (yes, I said Nazgûl ) and track the fellowship’s movements, harrassing them if they stray too close to their shadowy realm. And Sauron himself manipulates events from the background...or swoops in to wreak havoc himself when the time is right.

Many evil creatures reside in the former Greenwood the Great. Like the Haunted Forest in The Wizard of Oz, I’d turn back if I were you.

Dáin’s DC Duos #161

So...how should we start? Spiders? Orcs? Nazgûl? Hmmm.

I think we’ll start with the big boys. The REALLY big boys. Enjoy!

•Sauron, The Necromancer
Minion • Maia
Strength: 18
Vitality: 5
Site: 6
Lurker. Damage +1. Enduring. Fierce. Hunter 1.
For each and Shadow card you spot, Sauron’s twilight cost is -1.
When you play Sauron, you may take control of a site.
At the start of each skirmish involving Sauron, you may exert him to make him strength +X, where X is the number of burdens or threats you can spot.
“‘...even you, Bilbo, won’t need me to tell you tales of that black sorcerer.’”

To powerful. See Sauron, dark Lord of Mordor and Sauron, The lord of the Rings. Don’t give him any twilight reduction, especially since you can throw in Some Secret Art of Flame or random conditions like that to kill with. Just cut the twilight reduction period, he’s good enough to be used without it. Or significantly reduce it, like while you spot a or card, he is twilight cost -5 or something like that. Also, self-exerting an enduring minion is BAD. Really bad. Oh yeah, he’s site 5. Period.

This is actually one of TWO versions of Sauron found in the set. (For those who have been following recently-covered cultures, I bet you can figure out what culture and time period the other is from. ) I didn’t intend for him to have every concievable keyword you can fit on one character, it just kind of worked out that way. He’s pretty weak (for Sauron), but with that skirmish ability, he can actually exceed his normal 24 strength in the right circumstances.

•Úlairë Khamûl, Master of Dol Guldur
Minion • Nazgûl
Strength: 10
Vitality: 4
Site: 3
Lurker. Fierce. Hunter 2.
While you can spot 3 burdens or 3 threats, Úlairë Khamûl is strength +1 and damage +1.
Response: If the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, exert Úlairë Khamûl to add a burden or a threat instead.
“Now at that time the Chieftain of the Ringwraiths dwelt in Minas Morgul with six companions, while the second to the Chief, Khamûl the Shadow of the East, abode in Dol Guldur as Sauron’s lieutenant....”

That makes a potential of 15 Nazgul in a Forestgul deck. Well...that’s fine. Just don’t go slapping toil on any version or making non-unique Nazzies left and right.

Úlairë...who? I don’t expect bringing a brand new Nazgûl into the mix will sit too well with some reviewers, and though I try to be open to reviewer’s opinions, it will take a lot to make me budge on this one. I think Khamûl, the ONLY named Nazgûl in Tolkien’s works, deserves a place in the card game based on those works. Decipher decided to give some of this character’s material to Úlairë Attëa, and while I think that, in general, their naming of the Nazgûl is fine, Khamûl should have been part of it from the beginning. And since every other Nazgûl has "Úlairë" (for "number") in front of its name, I decided to keep it here (even though it doesn’t make a ton of sense).

Anyway, as the Witch-king’s right hand...uh, wraith, Khamûl is a major character in my sets, with three versions (combined) in the first and second sets alone. His versions have varying abilities, of course, but they usually revolve around a specific theme or two. What those themes are, you’ll just have to wait and see when I post other versions of him.

So, again, unless the whole forum turns around and tells me I’m nuts, the chaarcter (and his name) stick. I ask you to judge his stats and text, not his name. Thanks!

Oh, and of course, the s are back on with this being a new thread. Yoru first review nets you a ...no questions asked.