This very Monday I met with two friends with whom I play lotr once in a while. I made 3 different decks for 3 different games. We agreed to play an expanded multiplayer game, a movieblock game and a standardgame.
First game was my movieblock deck. I made a -especially on the paper- great deck with
Slaked Thirsts. My objective was to load
Preparations with ST, than ditch it in maneuver,
Quick as May be to finish a key minion and leave some other minions to die to Elven archery. My shadow was morgularchery. He made little to no twilight and with a hand only containing shadow (after mulligan) it was hard to do anything constructive on either side of the deck. Nonetheless I won.
Second game was a standard game vs McTono aka Captain Slow. He puts so much thinking in to his game that it is sometimes wearing you out, but he is a great player, probably thanks to that
. I played a Isildur Ringbearer/gandalf deck, with forestguls on the side. He played ringbound hobbits and corsairs. Normally a tough match-up, but this time I was the one on the good side. He once managed to play a very cool swarm, but due to sitemanipulation he didn't do anything, cause
Caras Galadhon was appearing in the maneuver.
Shapes Slowly Advancing was lurking to do it's job and I won.
Best game though -from my
perspective that is- was the mulitplayergame. I put some thinking into it and came with Hunter Elves with Gil Galad, to replay Elven Marksmenship turn after turn. On the shadow I had Moria Swarms, cause I think that is a very good shadow when it comes to multiplayer. You need little to no twilight and so you can always increase the threat as well as ditch your hand.
McTono played a very beautiful rohandeck with nazguls and
Anarion played Dwarves and Ninja Gollum. But after my lightning start, due to Gamling and the grabbing of
Celebring,
Woodhall Elf, Silver Ewer and
Thorongil, they had not a huge chance in getting through. On site 4 I swarmed McTono with 7 minions, and in Anarions turn I could empty my Swarms so he was facing 10 minions with 3 dwarves...Liked it a lot!!!
After that I played a movieblock game again with McTono. The whole concept didn't do anything, and I made a fatal mistake by not swarming him at site 5. He could take out my fellowship 1 by 1 with his corsairs, with a beautiful placed
Fierce in Despair.....I was dissapointed, but that was due to my poor drawing...
All in all a beautiful day, with a few nice games....