Welcome to Fill in the Blank Season 1: Lairs!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 - but each of the tied cards will appear in the final set card list.
On to Stuff!
Last week's winner...Inspire adds another adventuring Hobbit with
Pippin, Out of the Bog and Briar!
Last week's entries to pick from for Card #17... •Angmar Haunts Us Still
Condition • Support Area
To play, stack a Nazgûl here.
Each Nazgûl is twilight cost -1 for each Nazgûl stacked here.
Response: If this condition is about to be discarded, stack a Nazgûl from play or from hand here to prevent that.
"'You only slew his steed. It was a good deed; but the Rider was soon horsed again.'"
•Westward March From Rhûn
Condition • Support Area
When you play this condition, you may spot 2 Men to stack an Easterling here from your draw deck.
Shadow: Play an Easterling stacked here to stack an Easterling here from your draw deck (limit once per site).
Regroup: Remove a burden or discard this condition to shuffle up to two Easterlings from your discard pile into your draw deck.
Variag Armaments
Possession • Hand Weapon/Shield
Strength +2
Vitality +2
To play, bearer must not be bearing any possessions. Bearer must be an Easterling.
Response: If bearer wins a skirmish, exert him to play a hand weapon from your discard pile.
"...and the Variags surged up from the south..."
Designer's notes: I took elements of both Pavise and Elven Armaments and smashed them together into a card that invokes a "hand weapons matter" theme for a sub-sub-culture that doesn't exist: Variags. I would've added a twilight discount into the Response effect, but seeing as the other two Easterling-bearable hand weapons are already free (Easterling Polearm and Raider Halberd) I suppose Decipher took care of this on their end.
•Ill-favoured Fellow
Minion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 1
Site: 2
At the start of the maneuver phase, you may remove the game text (except card type and race) from a companion (except the Ring-bearer) until the regroup phase. The Free Peoples player may make the Ring-bearer put on The One Ring until the regroup phase to prevent this.
"One of the Bree-landers, who seemed to have been in the Shire several times, wanted to know where the Underhills lived and who they were related to."
Designer's notes: Ill-favoured Fellow offers (likely Twilight Nazgul in particular) a means to temporarily neutralize a key companion, while providing the Free Peoples player the option to risk a Return to Its Master or Wraith World in order to prevent the effect.
The Pits of Dol Guldur
Possession • Support Area
Nazgûl (and trackers) gain hunter 2.
Assignment: Exert a or minion twice to assign it to a character bearing a Ring (allow him or her to skirmish if an ally). He or she may exert instead.
"Wolves pursued him, Orcs waylaid him... he was tormented and the Ring taken from him, and then at last he died."
Designer's notes: Ever wanted to dig an obnoxious Elf lord/lady out of his/her bunker? Or divert Durin III to a lesser threat, while your Orcs/Nazgul feast on his weaker kinsfolk? Or punish Gandalf for exerting too much? I tell you, Elrond won't be (ab)using Vilya so freely if that implies having too little vitality to avoid being hunted by Sauron's forces!
This week's contest is...Card #7!- A card (after Worse Than Orcs)
- A card (before Sheltered Hollow)
...you better believe I'll be thinking about a viable
entry to spoil
's second card. Heh.
Closing date: August 15th! Good luck!
Lairs Card List Number - Name - (Culture • Type) - Contestant - Week it won
1. Burned Village (
• Condition] -
Dictionary - 12
2. •Stronghold of the Adorn River (
• Possession) -
Durin's Heir - 3
3. •Balin, Lord of Moria (
• Ally) -
menace64 - 8
4.
5. Sméagol Lied (
• Event) -
SGollum - 4
6. Worse Than Orcs (
• Event) -
menace64 - 9
7. IN CREATION THIS WEEK
8. Sheltered Hollow (
• Condition) -
TelTura - 6
9.
10.
11. Smoke From Isengard (
• Condition) -
menace64 - 13
12.
13.
14. •Wrested Kingdom (
• Condition) -
menace64 - 1
15.
16. •Úlairë Attëa, Khamûl (
• Minion) -
SGollum - 7
17. SUBJECT OF THIS WEEK'S VOTE
18. Southern Stranger (
• Minion) -
Inspire - 10
19.
20. •Bag End Hearth (
• Condition) -
Inspire - 2
21. •Merry, Conspirator (
• Companion) -
Inspire - 5
22. •Pippin, Out of the Bog and Briar (
• Companion] -
Inspire - 14
23. The Black Gate (Site) -
SGollum - 11
24.
25.
The Misadventure Deck (cards that lost due to tied-decision but will appear in final cardlist! Maybe?)
26. •Durin's Axe, Omen of Fortune
27. From Lowest Dungeon to Highest Peak
28. Orkish Whip
29. •Mountains of Shadow[/list]