Welcome to Fill in the Blank Season 1: Lairs!Each week I'll post the collector's information for one of the cards in the set's card-list.
Contestants are free to create whatever card they see fit for that slot in the card-list, keeping in mind the surrounding cards. As the contest progresses, the card-list will become more and more defined, guiding the contestants' choices.
The theme of our set is Lairs! You're free to interpret this however you want.
Not every card has to fit the theme, of course, but it's something to keep in mind when coming up with entries.
Each week a poll will go up for the previous week's entries. Simply vote for one you like the most. In the event of a tie, I'll let a random result generator make the decision - but each of the tied cards will appear in the final set card list.
On to Stuff!
Before we announce last week's winner...I'm sorry that this round got delayed even further, but this week was a bit of an off-week for me and I figured it'd be less of a headache to wait until the "regular" time to get us back on track for the final leg of the season.
Last week's winner...Is another tie-breaker! We shake the RNG-maker and our winner is...
Primitive Cave Paintings by Cw0rk! Lairs needed more events and here's a perfect theme-y addition to our card list! Bonus points to Cw0rk for making me scratch my head for a few evenings as I figured out precisely what to do about sourcing an applicable image. I think I fared pretty well
Azogsbane's
Alliance was a submission
close to my heart, but it has been semi-banished to the misadventure deck!
Last week's entries to pick from for Card #19... •Helm, Hammerhand
Companion • Man
Strength 8 Vitality 4 Resistance 7
Valiant. Damage +1. Defender +1.
Discard Théoden, Éomer and Éowyn.
While bearing no weapon or mount, Helm is strength +2 and each time he exerts, you may spot 3 cards to wound a minion.
"He would go out by himself, clad in white, and stalk like a snow-troll... and slay many men with his hands."
Designer's notes: This guy killed Freca with a single punch, and when Hornburg was besieged by the Dunlendings during the Long Winter, out of grief and rage he raided their camps and killed them with his bare hands! So he should be the opposite of the usual walking armories. Cards like HIDAN, For Death and Glory and Mustering for Battle will allow him to exert to wound at will, while companions like Rider of Rohan, Rohirrim Guard and Riders of the Mark can help him and soften his targets. Looks almost too mighty, but compare him to Eomer Northman for stats (easily base str 10 dmg+1) or to Eowyn LoI for wounding (who delivers wounds in big chunks). The real cost of Helm's power is in denying Théoden and his sister-children, and surrounding himself with generic Rohirrim.
Dark Communion
Event • Response
Search.
If a Shadow player plays a unique minion, reveal Sauron from your hand to play a minion; its twilight cost is -3.
"...he learned great sorcery, and knew much of the mind of Sauron..."
Designer's notes: This event works in a 1-on-1 and in multiplayer, effectively functioning as a floating -3 modifier for any minion in your hand, pending you also have Sauron. Some decks build around Sauron as cheaply as possible - and of course Dark Communion works on Sauron himself - but the idea here is to increase his splashability. Merely holding onto Sauron lets you bring any unique minion into play on the cheap. Mechanically I wanted this card to feel like Morgul Gates, "but better". In a multiplayer game, Dark Communion allows its owner to play a unique minion during another Shadow player's shadow phase. This can be seen as helping or as thievery, depending entirely upon the circumstances.
Move to the Caves!
Event • Fellowship
Stack any number of villagers on a ally. Until the end of the game, that ally gains their strength and vitality.
"'Caves! Holes to fly to in time of war, to store fodder in!'"
Designer's notes: More Lairs related stuff. All villagers are piled up together in the caves behind Helm's Deep. How about a Aldor Archery deck, a Guma Hospital deck or a Hlafwine Beatdown deck? One Whom Men Would Follow? Why not? I chose to make a Free Peoples card and an event because I feel that the set has too few of them.
Horseshoes
Possession • Support Area
When you play this possession, you may draw a card.
Response: If a mount is about to be discarded, add to prevent that or to transfer it to another companion instead.
"May he bear you well and to better fortune than Garulf, his late master!"
Designer's notes: Rohan's answer to Hides.
This week's contest is...Card #12!The gaps in our card list are closing rapidly! Let's see what you've got for some Lair-y Shadow cards!
- An card (after Smoke From Isengard)
- A card
- A card (before Wrested Kingdom)
Closing date: September 26th.
Lairs Card List Number - Name - (Culture • Type) -
Contestant - Week It Won
1. Burned Village (
• Condition) -
Dictionary - 12
2. •Stronghold of the Adorn River (
• Possession) -
Durin's Heir - 3
3. •Balin, Lord of Moria (
• Ally) -
menace64 - 8
4. •Mithril Gates (
• Condition) -
azogsbane - 18
5. Sméagol Lied (
• Event) -
SGollum - 4
6. Worse Than Orcs (
• Event) -
menace64 - 9
7. Commandeered Vessel (
• Possession) -
azogsbane - 16
8. Sheltered Hollow (
• Condition) -
TelTura - 6
9. Cold and Perilous (
• Condition) -
Durin's Heir - 17
10.
11. Smoke From Isengard (
• Condition) -
menace64 - 13
12. IN CREATION THIS WEEK
13.
14. •Wrested Kingdom (
• Condition) -
menace64 - 1
15. Primitive Cave Paintings (
• Event) -
Cw0rk - 19
16. •Úlairë Attëa, Khamûl (
• Minion) -
SGollum - 7
17. Angmar Haunts Us Still (
• Condition) -
TelTura - 15
18. Southern Stranger (
• Minion) -
Inspire - 10
19. SUBJECT OF THIS WEEK'S VOTE
20. •Bag End Hearth (
• Condition) -
Inspire - 2
21. •Merry, Conspirator (
• Companion) -
Inspire - 5
22. •Pippin, Out of the Bog and Briar (
• Companion) -
Inspire - 14
23. The Black Gate (Site) -
SGollum - 11
24.
25.
The Misadventure Deck (cards that lost due to coin-flip but will appear in the final cardlist! Maybe?)
26. •Durin's Axe, Omen of Fortune (
• Artifact) -
Durin's Heir - 4
27. From Lowest Dungeon to Highest Peak (
• Event) -
menace64 - 4
28. Oath of Cirion (
• Condition) -
cw0rk - 16
29. Key of Orthanc (
• Artifact) -
cw0rk - 17
30. Orkish Whip (
• Possession) -
Durin's Heir - 7
31. •Alliance (
• Condition) -
azogsbane - 19[/list]