Welcome to Fill in the Blank Season 1: Lairs!Inspired by the successful contests over on the TrekCC boards, I'd like to try something very similar here.
Each week I'll post the collector's information for one of the cards in the set's card-list.
Contestants are free to create whatever card they see fit for that slot in the card-list, keeping in mind the surrounding cards. As the contest progresses, the card-list will become more and more defined, guiding the contestants' choices.
The theme of our set is Lairs! You're free to interpret this however you want.
Not every card has to fit the theme, of course, but it's something to keep in mind when coming up with entries.
Each week a poll will go up for the previous week's entries. Simply vote for one you like the most. In the event of a tie, I'll let a random result generator make the decision.
Last week's entries to pick from for Card #14... •Saruman's Deception
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot Saruman.
Each event gains this effect: "exert an ally."
Each time a Free Peoples card exerts a companion or ally, you may exert Saruman or discard an minion to exert that character again.
•Treasure Trove
Artifact • Support Area
While you can spot 4 twilight tokens, each Southron is strength +1.
While you can spot 8 twilight tokens, each Southron is damage +1.
Vast riches hidden in the deserts financed superior weapons for warriors from the South.
It Waits For You Still
Condition • Support Area
Spell. While you can spot a Dwarf, The Balrog is twilight cost -3.
Shadow: If the fellowship has moved more than once this turn, play The Balrog from your draw deck or discard pile.
"'The world must change and some other power than ours must come before Durin's Folk walk again in Moria.'"
•Wrested Kingdom
Image: (11R11)
Condition • Support Area
When you play this condition, place a token here for each token or stacked card on Free Peoples conditions.
Regroup: Discard a Orc to play a condition from your discard pile. Remove a token from here or discard this condition.
"'The first clear word is sorrow, but the rest of the line is lost...'"
Isengard Insurrectionist
Minion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 2
Site: 3
To play, spot an man.
Maneuver: If you cannot spot 3 Free Peoples cultures, you may add 1 to the number of Free Peoples cultures that any player can spot until the end of the turn to play an condition from your discard pile.
"'It is not to be wondered at: webs of deceit were ever woven in Dwimordene.'"
Designer's notes:
I always thought the multi-cultural hate introduced in BoHD and continued in EoF was an extremely short-sighted design decision by Decipher. The "rainbow fellowships" seen in the FotR and early TTT metas were largely a function of the limited card pools available at the time. The game was always destined to shift to more homogeneous fellowships as the card pool expanded, since fellowships with fewer cultures tend to be inherently superior due to the ability to use the full supporting card pool (possessions, conditions, and events) on a greater number of eligible companions. If anything, the design philosophy should have encouraged decks with greater cross-cultural diversity, rather than less.
Isengard Insurrection is intended to still work within the existing man framework of targeting Free Peoples cultures but with a twist: instead of punishing the Free Peoples players for using more cultures, it instead only activates against fellowships with fewer cultures - with the added bonus of making the largest man (Agents of Orthanc) viable against these fellowships.
•Azog, The Defiler
Minion • Orc
Strength: 13
Vitality: 3
Site: 4
When you play Azog, if the fellowship is at an underground site, add .
"Your grandfather Thrór was killed, you remember, in the mines of Moria by Azog the Goblin."
This week's contest is...Card #20!As voting has just opened for Round 1, technically the field is still completely open for Card #20. However, chronologically-speaking the "last" entry for Card #14 is a
card, which makes it safe to make the following claims about what this week's card can be:
- A card (after Treasure Trove)
- A card
- A card
- A card
- A card
- A site
Closing date: May 9th.
Good luck!
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