Fellowship Block Draft Help

[FrahlerGames]

Hey all,

First time posting so apologies if this should be posted in Bag End. Getting into LOTR TCG I wanted to start with Fellowship block! I bought a Fellowship box, a Fellowship Draft Box, and the starters from Fellowship/ Mines of Moria (heard Elf Lord starters weren't the best).

I was wondering if there was any info on what was recommended for drafting Fellowship with 4 people. Would it be better to have 4 draft packs and 12 Fellowship Packs or rather 4 draft packs; 4 Fellowship, 4 Mines of Moria, and 4 Realm of the Elf Lords packs? The reason I'm asking is because I saw the Fellowship Draft Packs had cards from all three sets mixed in them. I wanted to save the remaining packs for when I'm more experienced with the game and able to draft. Appreciate all the help and look forward to playing the game! 

-FrahlerGames

[Kreggers]

There is actually an instructions booklet inside the Fellowship draft box - but it basically recommends having each player take 1 draft pack, 3 boosters (your choice on 3 fellowship or 1 of each - doesnt really matter), and then I believe everyone has their own Frodo/ring and perhaps setting aside the Balrog and sites.

I actually just played this way a few days ago and it was a ton of fun.

I recommend doing 1 of each if you have them but if not, 3 fellowship boosters works too.

[FrahlerGames]

Appreciate it! I was going to save unboxing it once the rest of the starters I ordered came in the mail. I'm probably going to do one of each and save the packs for once quarantine is over, assuming I can eventually find reasonable Realm pack prices. Thanks again! 

[5tein]

I don't know which is harder to find / pricier -- RotEL or Reflections, but we often swapped in Reflections boosters for Realms. It's not mentioned in the official rules, but I clearly remember Reflections Draft being a thing for a while -- iirc it was 1x Draft Pack + 2x Reflections. Tons of fun.

PS I recommend that you track each the draft pack's contents so you can reuse them.

[TelTura]

A reusable draft is called a "Cube", and there's at least a couple of cube lists for the LotR-TCG floating around.