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How playable is Librarian, Keeper of Ancient Texts?
5 (Best) |
[ 13 ] 65% |
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4 |
[ 4 ] 20% |
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3 |
[ 3 ] 15% |
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2 |
[ 0 ] 0% |
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1 (Worst) |
[ 0 ] 0% |
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Piecesofeight |
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:20 am |
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I can’t give it a 5 becuase of its 5 resistance. If it had 6 then G for grand would make him a lot more survivable. Decent card though. |
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DáinIronfoot |
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:12 am |
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Yeah, his low resistance and strength are about the only things dragging him down, he still makes for an awesome card and an easy 5. |
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Aragorn, King in Exile |
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:49 am |
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Well, if he DID have high strength and resistance, he would be OP. Personally, I think he is perfectly balanced. 5. |
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FortunesRazor |
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:18 am |
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He’s okay for support. The strength is nice and with the new axes other gandalf dudes will be decent, but let’s hope he doesn’t need to fight. |
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AgentDrake |
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:48 am |
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FortunesRazor wrote: He’s okay for support. The strength is nice and with the new axes other gandalf dudes will be decent, but let’s hope he doesn’t need to fight.
Decent?
You kidding? He’ll be huge in no time.
One measure of comfort, a few G For Grand, followers, strange meeting... all the stuff typical of a Gandy Men deck, and he can easily hit over 10 strength without even getting all your cards out. For that matter, he can get up to 19 strength (maybe more) without the axe or events.
These guys get big fast.
King in Exile is right. 6 resistance or more strength would make him OP. |
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Mythdracon |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 3:24 pm |
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I don’t think the low resistance makes this card *bad* since its ability is awesome. besides, how often do you see librarians helping the Fellowship destroy the Ring? Sets up wonderful new scenarios like....The librarian traveling to Rivendell and joining the fellowship...
’You have my book...and my quill.’
Remembering of course, that the pen is mightier than the sword, we could have an ’ink quill’ card. Twilight cost 1, +2 strength, unique, may be born in addition to one other hand weapon. Bearer may not be overwhelmed unless his strength is quadrupled. Bearer is strength +2 against armed minions’ 8D
Ok, that’s having too much fun....I’ll shut up now. ![Very Happy](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) |
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Piecesofeight |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:42 pm |
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I am still hesitant to say that this card is good, because saying something is good implies that the function of the card is known. I am still unclear what the function of gandalf men are supposed to be. They are not damage +1, their card drawing capabilities are mediocre at best, and they take a crazy amount of support cards to have the strength other cultures have with 1 or 2. |
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mm doughnuts |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:51 pm |
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That first ability’s so crazy, I can’t help but give it a 5 |
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AgentDrake |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 6:08 pm |
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Piecesofeight wrote: I am still hesitant to say that this card is good, because saying something is good implies that the function of the card is known. I am still unclear what the function of gandalf men are supposed to be. They are not damage +1, their card drawing capabilities are mediocre at best, and they take a crazy amount of support cards to have the strength other cultures have with 1 or 2.
Yeah, but the thing is this:
Most of those "1 or 2" cards are just used once or twice or have to be reinforced, or don’t apply to every companion. (Not all of those cards, but most.) Plus, it only takes one or two discards to bump them back down to lower strength. Gandy Men get strength bonuses from all sortsa stuff (Events, conditions, tokens, followers, eachother...) and if you discard one or two of their conditions, big deal. Everyone loses 2 strength or so. They’ve got 15 more strength each all lined up in the support area. Sure, everyone loses a bit of strength, but not that much. It takes ALOT more work to beat them down from strength 16-20 to their natural 4 or 5.
This guy makes use of three main Gandy Men strategies: Tokens (ie, Dasron and Last Stand) Followers (self-explanitory: see Strange Meeting) and Skirmish events (Erland, Guidance of the Istari) |
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Piecesofeight |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 6:20 pm |
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I see having lots of cards that give them strength boosts as a weakness not as a strength. They take a lot of work to get them up to a level that is capable of running, and even then they lack damage +1 and only grimbeorn can have hopes of overwhelming. Also, they are constantly threatened by condition discarding cards. Tokens/conditions are considered 1 type of bonus by me because any card that discards conditions also gets rid of tokens. I don’t think these guys are meant to do anything other than be "neat" |
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