what is lotr after bloodlines like? ( some suggestions for a newbie:)

[flash]

hello to all you lotr fans, i'm new here and haven't played lotr since bloodlines, so i would be very pleased if u could tell me something about the meta and everything important that happend to the game except of the fact that decipher killed it...also some hints and tips about strategies and interesting cards that occured would be very interesting for me...

hope i don't bother u much...

[Pepin The Breve]

  Hi there flash and welcome to tlhh.

  I´m not exactly the best person to answer that question, since i stop to play at shadows release, but since i start to play online again with the new cards i can tell you something.

   First of all, there are a lot of new powerfull cards around (very powerful i mean). I suggest you take a look at Lothlórien (at the Standard section) to get used with some decks that use (and sometimes abuse) the new cards. If you are talking about meta it always dependes on which people you are playing. If you ask me with my online experience i would say you will probably find Ring-bound Hobbits and all that healing, discard preventing, burden peeling, skirmish changing/canceling stuff  ; The new Bill Ferny, Agent of Saruman Ring-Bearer death; the troll swarm promoted by Troll's Keyward, Keeper of the Beast; Forestguls; Three Hunter, Elvents; Solo Smeagol and so on...

   The best way of get used to the new cards is playing wuth (and against) them. Maybe you can join people at GCCG and arrange to get some games there 

   Hope this helps somehow.

[Vroengard]

I think this is definetly not ''The'' answer to show the most bad examples of these broken combos.....just look through the edeitions on decipher.inc or here. you can see every lotr card, existing, here. I think you have to make your own experience, cause everyone plays this game in a different way. But always remember, the most wacky and broken cards come from the hunters expansion and some I think from Siege of Gondor (Gondor wraith's) you should take a look at the new warg riders (now they rock!!) and the MEN maneuver/discarding cards from Rise of Saruman. The Rohan Company from ROS goes mad, wen the ringbearer is assigned. you can make some cool decks with them and the adventure site ''Mount doom'' is one of the best cards from the block

[flash]

thx guys so far...i already played at GCCG and Kralik gave me a very good example how wargs are OP, also he showed me around the program so i thank him for that...

i'll go through the sets after my exams, hopefully that'll be on monday...i'm really excited about the game again so expect me to be at GCCG a lot (my nick is flashik anyway)...

i already checked the bill ferny kill and its pretty mean...i see a big antideck in the token gondorians using throne of gondor imho:)

[SomeRandomDude]

With Ferny, the freeps need to be able to shut stuff down before the skirmish phase. The only competetive decks that like actually fighting are Uruk Hunters and Forest Nazguls. Lemme give ya a run-down of the most popular decks in standard.

Freeps:

Rainbow Wounding
This is the most popular choice for high-budget players. The point is that you use Shadowplay/Unheeded, elf archers, Aragorn, Thorongil with a bow, and usually a utility Gandalf or possibly Eowyn, Lady of Ithilien. I prefer running it also with Faramir, Bearer of Quality and Pippin, WoBaS, as well as running about 3-4 copies of each companion and Refuge for healing. You typically have multi-phase wounding so stuff that shuts off the archery phase isn't that great. Such as that site where Uruk-Hai can't take wounds in archery, you can still hit them with Shadowplay, Hardy Garrison and Pippin, WoBaS.

Gondor Tokens
This deck runs lots of healing and lots of conditions with lots of tokens for lots of strength. It also has tons of ways to use the tokens to do various stuff. The deck is pretty weak except against Forest Nazguls and Uruk Hunters which is meets stroke for stroke.

Horn.

Start Frodo, Aldred, Gamling Defender of the Hornburg, a 1 twilight hobbit (typically Merry Swordthain) and Smeagol.
Bid to go first. Play Dammed Gate Stream.
Use Gate-Stream for Something Slimy to grab New Chapter.
Use Gamling to grab Erkenbrand's Horn.
Exert to play a follower from your draw deck. Heal with new Chapter.
Repeat for every follower in your deck.
Use Deagol to grab Gamling's Horn.
You now have as many followers as you want and you can discard one to make  a companion strength +4 till the regroup, as well as powering up Gamling during his skirmish.

Dwarves.

Durin + tons of possessions. Proud and Able with tons of possessions = tons of damage. BRC = destroy everything. Honed is the best pump. Cycle like mad with No Pauses, No Spills and other card drawing stuff. Only have about 3-4 companions, but they're all solid. Once set up, you can choke a bit too.

Shadow:

Evil Man Archery

Elevated Fire, Rapid Reload, and all in all tons of ways to shoot people.
Some decks pack a combo play where Grima, Footman of Saruman is used in conjunction with Precision Targeting to kill off three companions and exhaust the  fellowship, finish next turn with a barrage of arrows.

Forestguls

Ulaire Nelya...can't remember subtitle, swaps for forests, as well as other stuff to strew it with forests. Dark Approach and Lost in the Woods = cheap nazzies and high strength.

Uruk Hunters

Pretty much damage. High damage. Control sites, use that to throw some exertions around. And then damage.

Corsairs-
Same as pre-shadows, they lost nothing in the turnover.

[flash]

thx NBarden for an exhausting post...i like the horn built...seems pretty funny and able to survive some sites...also the rainbow wounding look good, i used to like such decks when i played long time ago...i remember a deck using shadowplay/unheeded combo with all that initiative loosing abbilities...

[sickofpalantirs]

its the mian reason I wouldn't want to play gccg unless we agreed not to play the dumb decks IE horn,  and any deck that uses some sort of infinite combo

even the multicultural wounding seems almost broken.

[Kralik]

You are always free to make those agreements with whoever your opponent is!
The users I know on GCCG aren't into the broken deck types.

[Ringbearer]

*coughManuelcough*