The Lore of the Rings - V2 (DC Contest)

[Thranduil]

1) 4 - I love how it accurately represents Gandalf protecting all things! Defender is a nice touch as well.
2) 7 - Again ties in nicely with the lore, though it would have to be a bit cheaper for me to use it in a deck, I think.
3) 6 - I love cross-culture and all support for knights, so this one immediately got my approval (though his recursion ability doesn't quite make sense the way it's currently written; I'm assuming there's an error somewhere and the last "X" is either supposed to be a particular number or it works on events of twilight "X or less").

There are fun cards, here! The number of Gandalfs is beginning to hurt my eye, though...

Thranduil

[sickofpalantirs]

1. 8
2.5
3. 3

[MR. Lurtzy]

7
6
1

[GarrisonofGondor]

 1. 8
 2. 3
 3. 6

[leokula]

•Gandalf, Steward
 Companion • Wizard
 Strength: 9
 Vitality: 4
 Resistance: 7
 While you can spot Denethor, Gandalf is Strength -3.
 Gandalf is strength +1 for each Man you can spot. (Except Denethor)(Limit +4)
"For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

A bit vanilla and he gets too big IMO. 13 strength most of the time since everybody would run this on an all gondor deck. He's almost as big as Elendil, Gil-Galad and Durin III with their gear, and for only 4 twilight. Besides, he has all the condition discarding and burden removal. Too overpowered IMO.

•Gandalf, Steward of Middle-Earth
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 7
Knight. Defender +1. Fellowship:  Gandalf may be spotted as a member of the culture.
Response: Each time a companion heals you may add and exert Gandalf to remove a burden.
"'But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

Bad wording, mate. First sentence should be "Gandalf may be spotted as a companion.". The burden removal is a bit crazy too with all the healing gondor usually packs. It's a defender +1 knight companion with solid burden removal. Overpowered too IMO.

•Gandalf, Hope of Middle Earth
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 8
Each unwounded companion is strength +1.
Fellowship or Manuever: Exert Gandalf three times to make another companion gain defender +1.
Regroup: Discard Gandalf to heal every companion twice.
"'But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

Interesting. Nice to have 4 of him.

•Gandalf, Steward of Middle Earth
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 7
Defender +1.
Response: If a Free Peoples card with twilight cost X is about to be discarded by an opponent, add X and exert Gandalf to take that card into hand instead.
"And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

Cool! nice splash to avoid Grond.

•Gandalf, Grey Wanderer
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 8
Vitality: 4
Signet: Aragorn
While you can spot 3 knights (or Denethor), Gandalf is also a companion.
Each time you lose initiative, you may exert Gandalf to heal another companion (twice if Gandalf is a companion) or liberate a site.
"‘But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care....For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

Sounds odd but it's nice  :hey:

•Gandalf, Steward of Minas Tirith
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 7
To play, spot two knights (or exert a man).
Skirmish: Exert Gandalf to make a knight strength +x, where X is the number of fortifications you can spot (limit +4). Then, if you can spot X knights, you may shuffle a or event from your discard pile into your draw deck.
"For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

Sweet! Really liked how you tied it to the knights theme. Impressive I must say Congratulations!

Call of Stewardship
Event • Response
If a Shadow event is played, exert Gandalf to cancel it. That event's owner may remove 2 burdens or 2 threats to prevent this.
"'But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

Personally don't like event canceling. Just doesn't match the LOTR TCG gameplay as a whole, it's very unusual.

•My Task
Condition • Support Area
At the start of each turn, you may exert Gandalf to add a token here.
Each time Gandalf wins a skirmish, you may exert him to add a token here.
Regroup: Spot Gandalf and 8 tokens here to choose one: heal each companion; remove 5 threats; remove 3 burdens; or discard each Shadow condition. Remove this condition from the game.
"'But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'"

Don't like the way you add tokens to it. If you have to exert, turns out that doesn't really matter if it's once per turn, or each time he wins... you'll be limited to 3 tokens until you heal him, period. This just makes it more complicated and cluttered IMO. You could just have chosen one way to add tokens. The benefits are interesting, but 8 tokens would most likely be there only by site 7 (that is if he doesn't take any wounds) and could be too late, not mentioning Gandalf would be an easy target, exhausted most of the time. Then if you pack stuff to reinforce tokens, you could lose card efficiency and packing the usual burden removal / condition discarding would be easier.

My votes are:
6
4
3

[Elf_Lvr]

About half of the contestants have voted. Get those votes in, people!

[Elf_Lvr]

Still need votes from Dain and Menace (and anyone else who wants to vote!)

By tonight I'll be spamming it up with PMs.

[lem0nhead]

3
8
6

Really liked 8 but a bit too costly to get 8 tokens on it.

[menace64]

4
8
5

[Elf_Lvr]

Well, now I'M the one who's been slacking off in getting this contest moving. 

BAD EL! 

Uh, anyways, I'll exempt Dain from voting this round (for obvious reasons) though I'm not sure if he'll still want to / be able to participate. We'll see, I suppose.

Anyways, results were like this:

GarrisonofGondor (#1):1
Gate Troll (#2): 0
Mr. Lurtzy (#3):9
lem0nhead (#4): 9
DainIronfoot (#5):3
sickofpalantirs (#6):8
Menace64 (#7):5
Thranduil (#8):13

So, congratulations to Thran! for the victor of the round.

Since we had a no-show, NK was eliminated this round.

I'd hate to trouble you all so much for voting and then say it doesn't matter. We've got a double elimination this round, then, I suppose. Sorry, Gate Troll.

I'll post the next lore later on today.

[Gate Troll]

That's hilarious, I got no votes.  Congrats Thran. 

[sickofpalantirs]

sorry GT ...well I beat 3 people...

[Elf_Lvr]

Alright, guys. Here's your next lore.

"But this I will say to you: your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all."

Galadriel speaking to the company. I think you all probably remember this moment.

Bonus points to anyone who uses this lore, too!

`Look, my friends!' he called. `Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven-princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle-earth would be riding to the Shire.'



Deadline: Next Sunday, Nov. 16. Unless anyone has a reasonable objection.

[MR. Lurtzy]

Use both lores for one card???

[Elf_Lvr]

Hah. No. The second one is a joke, really.

But... skinning hobbits? It's funny, right?

Right?

RIGHT???