@Phallen: I must say, my hat (and scalp)'s off to you! Really clever fix for Thranduil! The same treatment can be done for
Roäc.
Updated the 1st post, changing these to
blue (fix already coded):- Dori, Dwarven Song and Great Barricade (wrong cost),
- Tauriel (wrong player chooses),
- Thranduil,
- Nori (wrong phase),
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Battle Fury,
- Ancestral Knowledge (lack of limit),
- Bilbo, Master in Riddles.
Removed Underground Lake from the list.
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Gandalf, The Grey: Yes, Beorn makes him too powerful. But there's another card that turns this version into a killing machine: Dawn Take You All. Each other
![Gandalf [Gandalf]](https://lotrtcgdb.com/forums/Smileys/classic/gandalf.png)
event makes The Grey assign 1 direct wound, but that spell does it thrice. So besides R-listing both Beorn and The Eagles Are Coming, might be good to limit Dawn Take You All to 2x only.
I don't like the idea of X-listing The Eagles Are Coming, since it synergizes very well with
Gwaihir to attach him again after using his skill. But either X-listing or R-listing The Eagles Are Coming, I'd compensate that strong reduction in
Gwaihir's fetching by making his max copies be 4x (there's little risk of clogging, since he discards his own extra copies, even without Gandalf).
In the next format "The Clouds Burst", only Nenya and Gathering of the Three Rings could be a good cards for Gandalf The Grey.
There will be also Former
Herald. But yes, the addition of Jail and The Great Enemy should provide a good counter (with Narzug wounding Galadriel and Elrond allies).
Besides restricting and/or X-listing things, I think we might even import 1 (pre-existent) card from another Hobbit format. The Great Enemy would punish The Grey more often than
LotC or FoT (since the safest way to replay Gandalf at site 5+ is another Wise character:
Radagast).