Fill in the Blank Season 1: Lairs #25

[JamesCB]

•Watcher in the Water, Scourge of Westgate
Minion - Creature
Strength - 9
Vitality - 4
Site - 4
Game Text: Discard all other minions (except tentacles).
The current site gains marsh.
All minions are strength +2 and damage +1.
Shadow: Play a tentacle from your draw deck, discard pile or hand; its twilight cost is -2
I try never to be completely negative when reviewing dream cards, but I'm afraid this is totally broken. For 8 twilight at site 4, you get a 17 minion swarm set up by one card (or 13 minions for 4 twilight). MTC is a perfectly fine Watcher: I've built successful decks with it.

I didn't realize that nearly all the tentacles cost 2. That should have been the twilight cost is -1, oh well.

[azogsbane]

[Site-5F] Moria Abyss
Underground. Marsh. Minions may not be discarded by another minion's game text. The Balrog's twilight cost is -6.
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Finally, the possibility of attacking your opponent with Durin's Bane and Keeper of Westgate at the same time! Also the ability to keep your creature and tentacles around when your opponent moves from Moria Lake in the regroup phase.

In case it's not clear, the place I have in mind is the underground lake where Gandalf fought the Balrog after they fell from the bridge. I've always imagined there were probably numberless foul, Watcher-like creatures living down there in the darkness, time out of mind.

In making a Site-5F alternative to Bridge of Khazad-dum, I thought it important to retain part of the text of that site simply because the certainty of the Balrog's cost reduction at site 5 is essential, not only to the functioning of any Balrog-centric deck type that uses Fellowship sites, but also the flavor of the entire FotR site path.

[JamesCB]

Great card, azog.

On a completely different note, we should make collector's info part of the cards. Entered by the creator, of course.

[Cw0rk]

•Beorn, Founder of the Beornings
Companion • Man
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Signet: Gandalf
When you play Beorn, discard cards from the top of your draw deck until you discard a minion. Add , where is that minion's twilight cost, then stack it on Beorn.
While stacked on him, Beorn gains that minion's strength and vitality.
"He came alone, and in bear's shape."
@menace, can you please confirm me if my submission respecta the 7 lines rule?

[menace64]

Without the flavor text, you're at 7 lines.

That being said, if you change "...then stack it on Beorn." to "...then stack it here." you'd actually save an entire line. (Look at Treebeard, Earthborn for precedent.)

Also, I recommend changing that second line to "Beorn gains the strength and vitality of each minion stacked on him." It doesn't save you any space, but I think the wording is a bit clearer here.

Neat card!

On a completely different note, we should make collector's info part of the cards. Entered by the creator, of course.

Each card's number is pre-assigned, and every card's rarity is V for Virtual. What collector's info are you interested in adding?

[JamesCB]

Just the rarity. Again, it's all for fun, but just for the heck of it.