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[bibfortuna25]

I think if the site changes you can use the new one's effect agin, even if they are the same site.

The problem is, the site specifically refers to its own title. If it said "The twilight cost of the first Nazgul played at this site is -5," then you might have a case. But even if you change the site, there was already a Nazgul played at Ford of Bruinen, so the site's text can't trigger again.

[FM]

Isn't there something stating that when a card refers to it's title, it means that physical card, to prevent shenanigans with multiples?

[bibfortuna25]

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$lzehf8t6hdnymkkk

Movie block, me vs ellesar

My FP super token/Nazgul and Morgul Orc deck vs his Ent/Nazgul burdening deck.

Suffice it to say, a LOT of companions got wounded during this game. Two separate times Enquea killed one of his guys with a lot of threats on the board. And he used enduring Enquea along with Gates of the Dead City to get my companions exhausted and eventually they started dying. I was down to just Frodo left, and I had one chance to kill his Free Peoples, and he gave me just enough twilight to play the rest of my minions and slaughter him.

[ellesar]

that was a fun game :p

[bibfortuna25]

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$ars7kgrp8c4l4jw6

Expanded versus bebpc. My Superhobbit/Forestgul deck vs his Smeagol/Ninja Gollum deck.

Long story short, he manipulated the site path A LOT, making me face Doorway To Doom several times, and putting Steward's Tomb at both sanctuaries. But I got out Fates Entwined and was able to use that to keep healing my Hobbitses. Bilbo, Tolman, Farmer Maggot and Pippin all got sacrificed in the midgame, but Frodo, Sam and Merry all stayed relatively healthy since they kept winning skirmishes.

Finally, I began my turn at site 7, putting out Wingfoot and Radagast and preparing to make my push to the end, when he made the crucial mistake of using Shelob, Her Ladyship to prevent Sam from being able to fight. So at that point all I had to do was kill off Frodo at site 8 (a nasty Balrog was a good choice to feed him to), and Sam was untouchable no matter what he threw at me at site 9.

Fates Entwined > Ninja Gollum

[Gil-Estel]

Epic mistake...

[bibfortuna25]

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$6rpdbnllcdsw65o1

Sealed vs colar45. He got a bunch of Ents out early and because he went first, I had to try for a Shadow kill. After my Orc Insurgent drew a bunch of FP cards in the early sites, I knew I had a bunch of Shadow left in my deck, so I bided my time to get a huge Shadow hand. At site 7 I dropped 11 minions vs his 9 companions, but the combined strength on his Frodo was only 17, meaning a Severed His Bonds kept him alive. So I reset and tried for another minion bomb. I played nothing at site 8, and he doubled to 9. Palantir Chamber retrieved my Orc Insurgent plus a bunch of other minions, and my bomb was much more effective this time around.

Quite an epic game!

[sgtdraino]

Okay, I think this game is worthy; this is the biggest victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat game I think I have ever had! It was a My Cards Expanded Format league game versus Sempol. At the time Sempol was undefeated, and it was pretty clear from his deck that he had plenty of gold when he built it.

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yo7zx3ths3w6j9sc

Sempol played with Gandalf, Powerful Guide, which he got set up on the very first turn. Gandalf was being assisted by the usual suspects (Legolas, Greenleaf, Merry, Friend to Sam, Grimbeorn with Beorning Axe, Radagast). He was also using plenty of site manipulation (Traveled Leader and Speak "Friend" and Enter) He was going up against my Shadow: Mostly Dunland stuff, with a little Nazgul stuff thrown in. I was lucky enough to get out Constantly Threatening right away, though. Even so, he quickly doubled ahead of me.

I was playing with my usual Madril crew, facing Sempol's all-the-worst-rare-Nazgul, with a little gollum stuff. My first setback came at site 3, when Sempol used Cantea to discard Shadowfax.

His first setback came at site 4, when I managed to kill his Legolas with Enquea. Still, by then he had Grimbeorn, Beorning Axe, and Radagast's Herb Bag ready to go.

When I moved to site 4, Sempol made a tactical error and changed the site away from Crags of Emyn Muil, which probably would have discouraged me from doubling. I doubled ahead of him to Neekerbreekers' Bog (site 5), which he immediately changed to Mithlond for himself. He then doubled past me to site 6, with very little trouble. At this point he must have noticed that I retrieved Shadowfax with On Your Doorstep, so prior to ending his turn he used Traveled Leader to turn site 5 into Steward's Tomb. No healing or burden removal for me!

With 5 burdens but little choice, I added 5 threats anyway in order to use Madril, played Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff Cock-Robin, and moved to site 6. He promptly played Ring of Terror, took off 2 threats, and left me facing an Enquea who is suddenly not roaming, and four other baddies. Meanwhile both Faramir and Aragorn are only one point short of death.

sgtdraino: Dang ring got me
sgtdraino: guess I should have added more, knowing I was going against nazgul

Rather than kill either of those guys, Sempol decides to take out the unwounded Madril... but I had a Might of Numenor in my hand! BUT I only drew a 1. I healed Madril, and Sempol killed Aragorn. Somehow I managed to prevent any more deaths, but wound up with a total of 5 guys, 12 wounds, and 8 burdens!

I attempt to Neekerbreeker Sempol as he plays Radagast and moves from 6 to 7, but Speak "Friend" and Enter puts an end to that. I use a Squealer to play Nelya and change the site to Mithlond (so that I can heal when I move), and Sempol takes the opportunity to put his fancy Pallando on his fancy Gandalf, fight Nelya twice, and discard BOTH my copies of Constantly Threatening. Those were all the copies I had in the deck, but of course Sempol doesn't know that! He doubles with 2 burdens and no wounds to site 8, and I finally pull off a Neekerbreek... though of course it only affects half his guys. I play NOTHING, just letting the twilight build. I don't even discard and draw anything. It's regroup time...

sgtdraino reconciles
sempol: hmm
sempol: trap?
sempol reconciles
For a While Less Dark is discarded from hand
sempol draws 4 cards
Doorway to Doom required triggered effect is used
sgtdraino:

I only had one minion in my hand, and no means of playing more. BUT then I also have no means of tripling from 6 to 9, and my guys are really hurt! I do however have Citadel to Gate, Shadowfax, and an extra copy of Gandalf, so by the time I end up at site 7 (Mithlond), I only have 2 wounds and no burdens! BUT I only have three cards in my hand: 2 copies of What Are They? and 1 Hillman Tribe. Sempol plays 5 guys, all ranging between strength 11 and 14, 4 Fierce, 1 Fierce and Damage +1. I put the Shirriff on Pippin and ditch Hillman Tribe for an unhelpful Deep In Thought. I What Are They? two of the minions, and I'm down to just one card in hand (Deep In Thought). At this point, Sempol says:

sempol: do you have last throw?
sgtdraino: it's possible

I take hits from the remaining 3 guys, and FORGET to use Deagol! With no other options except the EXTREEEEMELY long shot, I double to site 8 (Neekerbreekers' Bog), and heal my guys a bit. Sempol plays another 2 baddies (for a total of 5 again).

sgtdraino transfers •Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff Cock-Robin to •Frodo, Resolute Hobbit
•Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff Cock-Robin optional triggered effect is used
Deep in Thought is discarded from hand
sgtdraino draws 1 card
Archery fire: fellowship - 0, minion - 0
sempol: i hope you haven't drown it now ;p
sempol: that would be sick
sgtdraino assigns characters to skirmish
sgtdraino: What are the odds?

The odds are 1 in 38... but I DID just draw Last Throw!!! Of course, I still have to survive to use it. This time I remember to use Deagol to arm Madril with an Ithilien Blade, BUT I forget to use Frodo to kill a Nazgul that is preventing the other Nazgul from roaming, and accidentally use Pippin first. So, Pippin takes out a Morgul Whelp rather than somebody more dangerous.

sgtdraino: Arrggh!
sgtdraino: Wasited him!
sempol: if you have one left 1:39

Indeed, my clock is almost out! So, I kill the guy with Frodo, and take hits from the rest. I now have 5 guys, 4 burdens, 7 wounds, 6 threats, 21 twilight, and 3 minions still out on the table.

•Gollum, Dark as Darkness exert due to Follow Smeagol
sgtdraino plays Crags of Emyn Muil
sgtdraino plays Last Throw from hand
sgtdraino adds 5 to twilight pool
sgtdraino:
sempol: lol
sempol: i am going to hung myself
sempol reconciles
sempol: han*
sempol: impossible

I move, and Sempol adds a fancy Witch-king to the mix, but no other minions. With less than a minute to go, Madril uses IB to take out Gorbag (the only roaming minion), then Gandalf, Madril, and Smeagol sacrifice themselves to save Frodo.

sgtdraino is the winner due to: Surviving to Regroup phase on site 9
sgtdraino: yay!
sempol: anyway you suck man
sgtdraino: gg!
sgtdraino: man, that was amazing
sempol: gg
sempol: so sick
sgtdraino: I litterally drew that last throw with that last Shirriff aciton!
sgtdraino: Incredible!
sempol: sick
sgtdraino: yep!
sgtdraino: That might be the narrowest win I've ever seen
System: sempol left the room
sgtdraino: Phew! Sweating bullets over here!

[TheNinthPlayer]

That's insane.
Adding the timer to the mix, I am honestly amazed that you pulled that off.  Props!

[bibfortuna25]

Last night I pulled off the most amazing win I have ever had. My fellowship was dying off rapidly, and my Frodo was exhausted at site 8 with 9 burdens. My opponent was at site 6, and normally at this stage in the game, each of us are obviously trying to dump cards for when I move to site 9. So when I put out a Southron Commander on a Mumak, he liberally tosses several of his companions away, thinking I can't do any harm to him anyway. He also wastes a pair of Severed His Bonds in the site 7 skirmishes in order to free up his hand to draw more Shadow for next turn.

However, the card that he evidently overlooked was Hornburg Wall. My Commander and his Mumak added a ton of twilight, which meant I had (9) available to force him to move to 8. And since he had discarded several of his companions at site 7, I was able to drop barely enough minions to overwhelm his Frodo. If he hadn't discarded Aragorn HoE or if he had kept a Severed in hand, I couldn't have pulled it off.

Like I said, the most amazing and improbable series of events led to this victory. Kudos again, Linkbreak.

http://gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$3bqnoxgc07g72xvp

[CamKrist]

I decided to give a hand and sent a post into social bookmarks. I hope the popularity will rise in.

[sgtdraino]

sgtdraino transfers •Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff Cock-Robin to •Frodo, Resolute Hobbit
•Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff Cock-Robin optional triggered effect is used
Deep in Thought is discarded from hand
sgtdraino draws 1 card
Archery fire: fellowship - 0, minion - 0
sempol: i hope you haven't drown it now ;p
sempol: that would be sick
sgtdraino assigns characters to skirmish
sgtdraino: What are the odds?

The odds are 1 in 38... but I DID just draw Last Throw!!! Of course, I still have to survive to use it. This time I remember to use Deagol to arm Madril with an Ithilien Blade, BUT I forget to use Frodo to kill a Nazgul that is preventing the other Nazgul from roaming, and accidentally use Pippin first. So, Pippin takes out a Morgul Whelp rather than somebody more dangerous.

I did it again! Not quite as impressive as last time, this time the odds were about 4 out of 45:

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$z6m6pssqgqskahzy

[sgtdraino]

Okay, I think this one is worthy. Close game against pizza_fan, who in my experience is always an excellent player. This time he was wielding a discarding deck-out deck that actually managed to deck-out my huge 108-card deck! I can't remember the last time anyone has managed to do that.

pf started out with what looked like a pretty traditional Madril deck, but with Gimli as ringbearer. I thought that was interesting, since the first version of MY Madril deck also had a Gimli ringbearer. He used various cards to filter out my hand, like Duality, What Are We Waiting For (why he uses Gimli), and Drawing His Eye. He also used Shield of the White Tree and Mellon! to mess up my hand strategy. He also had triple move capability with Radagast.

For Shadow, pf was using a combination of Uruk-hai, Orc, and Sauron culture. The usual Sauron discarding guys, a bunch of Gorbag, Filthy Rebel to discard more, Grishnakh, Treacherous Captain to play various Uruk-hai over and over, Ugluk, Ugly Fellow, Mauhur, Relentless Hunter, White Hand Guard, and a few other Uruks to be annoying. Naturally he was also using Sauron conditions that fit the theme, like Desperate Defense of the Ring, Tower of Barad-dur, and The Irresistible Shadow.

I managed to snipe his Madril at site 4, so I thought I was doing pretty good. But then, when I move to site 5, I discover the reason he's got Uruk-hai in his deck: MULTIPLE copies of Greed. Luckily I managed to keep it at bay thanks to not much twilight, later Gladden Homestead, and finally a Deep In Thought. I made it to Site 8, with Cavern Entrance down at Site 9, and then it was his turn. He was at site 6 with seven unwounded guys (including Radagast), but no more Madril. However, at that point I only had a total of 12 cards left, including my hand. I use Fens to get out Sauron and put Saruman on his back. Master Blaster! I see he's got another Shield of the White Tree ready to go, so I go ahead and use Gollum to ditch the FP cards out of my hand. Sauron kills two, then Regroup. He Shields me, but then hits me with No Safe Places, and I have to discard 4 more cards. I ditch the last of my FP cards. I'm now decked out, with 4 cards in hand: Howdah, Ulaire Nertea, Dark Horseman, Morgul Squealer, and Mumak Commander, Giant Among Swertings. I play everything I've got, and swap out Squealer for The Witch-king, Morgul King. Alas, no threats, so no extra minion to play. Sauron takes out another two guys, leaving Gimli, Gandalf, and Aragorn fully wounded facing Mumak Commander, The Witch-king, and Sauron. No skirmish special abilities next site, so that is enough to stop him! My turn, I move, and he's basically got nothing left. Sigh of relief!

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yiwd3czfsx75xchg

[Not a Zombie]

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$j28i69y28mc2vy30

Great game vs ShadySpawn, lots of back and forth. In the end I won by 1 strength. Gimli's Battle Axe came in real handy this game too

[sgtdraino]

I feel like this game is worthy:

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$5h48ujwqfotxxhzr

...mainly by virtue of the fact that I started with a 124-card draw deck, and finished the game with 5 cards left!