Well, I've played some games with the deck and have learned some things.
One is that I need to slow down. I think when I played this deck idea before it was in shadows and I had more control over sites so could move faster without too much trouble. Moving fast in movies seems to be a bad idea.
Another is that
It's Mine can be an awesome card to go along with
They Stole It and
Promise Keeping. In this deck, it is a guarantee that you get to keep the cards you draw. In my last game, I was getting kills all over the place with that combo. I played Gollum and used
It's Mine to draw three cards. I would have 10 cards in hand if I played nothing else. That is enough to cause three wounds with
They Stole It. Each wound is accompanied by an exertion thanks to
Promise Keeping so a total of six wounds is at least possible. And that is if you don't have a
You're a Liar and a Thief in your hand. If Shelob is on a web she can come out too without costing one of the cards in your hand.
I feel sort of dumb because I kind of stumbled on this combo in the game and did not use it as well as I could have. I ended up wasting a lot of threats which had been added thanks to
Captured by the Ring and
Fat One Wants It. I was using
Gollum Vile Creature and trying to win with strength, but
Gollum Stinker probably would have been better. Kill with
They Stole It, add a burden then in regroup use
Heavy Burden to add another burden. It is quite possible to kill one companion, exhaust another and add 2 burdens in one turn.
With all that discarding I needed to make the deck a lot bigger so it is around 80 now and in the last game I had less than 10 cards left at the end. Smeagul only had one fight the whole game so I did't do much discarding on the free people's side of the game or I may have run out of cards even as big as the deck was.
Shelob Her Ladyship looks like she is probably better than the other two as Ellesar has pointed out above. I like that I can pull webs with the one shelob letting me get through the deck faster, but the ability to take the best fighter out of the game would have definately helped.
I think there are other things I wanted to comment on, but I don't remember them now. I'm going to revise the deck a bit to take better advantage of
It's Mine and post the upgraded deck when I do.
Topic: Pure Gollum (Read 10786 times)
