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Glamdring needs to be R-listed, otherwise losing it with Gandalf at site 5 won't be important with up to 3 replace copies. It's presence changes things a lot: gives strong doubt remotion + tanks Gandalf (relieving Thorin from doing that task alone). But
Wizard Staff isn't as important, so 4x is fine. Actually works much better in the hands of
Radagast to grab spells. Also, if
Radagast bears it you can lose Gandalf at 5 and stop, and in next turn exert
Radagast for a spell, recover Gandalf fully healed, and finally transfer the Staff to Gandalf! Then you preserve the Staff as aid for Gandalf, and you get a spell btw!
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The Eagles Are Coming synergizes with 3 cards.
Gwaihir &
Beorn: it can play them from deck, or from discard pile in the same turn they were discarded (Old Thrush can only at next turn);
Gwaihir can also return from support area to cancel a 2nd skirmish, or to pump a companion. And
His Wrath Was Redoubled: it can recover a Beorn just discarded to pay its cost.
So these are the differences between the current and the intended versions: current one will return Beorn to support area, whose only immediate usefulness is to burn him again with
another copy of HWWR already in hand in the fierce assignment. But with the corrected version, 1) he'll return to pump a companion and boost him, bringing back the strong
trick recycling, so 2)
you can retrieve that exact same copy of HWWR to repeat at the fierce assignment. That combo is good, but you must remove every trace of non-fierce minions or they'll take those 3 wounds instead of the fierce ones you want to weaken/destroy, and that depends on the FP skirmishers winning their non-fierce fights. So isn't automatic.
TEAC's replaying of Beorn may seem powerful but is useful only if he gets discarded, which happens only if Yazneg/Smaug is used and Gandalf is exhausted/absent, if bearer is killed, or if HWWR burns him. So X-listing it seems totally unnecessary to me.
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Dwarven Axe should never be 1x only, with so many unleashed Shadow combos out there. In my opinion 2x is ok, but experience
might even show us that it needs to be totally released. My point is that's much easier to discard (Smaug, Goblin Song, Ancestral Feuds at 5) than to recover (only Old Thrush, which can be blocked by Riddles in the Dark). Actually, Orcrist will be much easier to recover (Thorin + shuffling + a lucky draw, The Grey, another copy in The
Arkenstone).
Listing those restrictions that exact way you just did (by card type) is much more intelligent than mixing all things and sorting by card title. Hope you can do that in the request for the Format Rules tab, it'd save players a lot headaches.