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April 28, 2012, 02:57:04 PM
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What's your least favorite base set? Expansion?
« on: April 28, 2012, 02:57:04 PM »
As far as base sets go, I'd say it's a tie between Return of the King and The Hunters. They're both pitifully bland. And because it basically ruined the fun of the game, Mount Doom is my least favorite expansion.

April 28, 2012, 03:24:06 PM
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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2012, 03:24:06 PM »
I would probably say reflections-not that it doesn't have a lot of cool cards, but I really dislike the notion of non Frodo ring bearers and characters who have been long dead entering the game. Then again I have only played movie so I don't know how it is after that.

April 29, 2012, 02:26:44 AM
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« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2012, 02:26:44 AM »
Return of the King (base) and a tie between Black Rider & Bloodlines (expansion); RotK is the first step towards the convoluted gameplay quagmire of the WotR block. Hunters block actually quite fun to play in a silly kind of way, so these sets do not qualify for serious consideration in this matter IMHO.
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April 29, 2012, 02:46:16 AM
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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2012, 02:46:16 AM »
heh? Return of the King? What you guys been smoking. Id say Two Towers as base, very few good cards and techniques in it. As expansion, Mines of Moria, worst set by far.

Best sets by far Rise of Saruman and Realms of the Elf Lords

April 29, 2012, 04:44:55 AM
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Re: What's your least favorite base set? Expansion?
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2012, 04:44:55 AM »
Mines?  How could you possibly discount Mines?  Our first Staves, Watcher in the Water, Balrogs, Twilight Nazgul, Mithril Coat, so many epic, in the old sense of the word, cards.

('course, I may be biased; my first starter was a Gandalf FotR box, but for months afterwards all I could get my hands on was MoM boosters....;D)
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April 29, 2012, 04:56:16 AM
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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2012, 04:56:16 AM »
Mines of Moria is for me kinda only Flaming Brand and the Twilight Nazgul thats it....

I have to say tho that shadows and Black rider have the most useless cards in a whole. The complete URUK HAI cards you can bin, except 1-2 rares.  :-|
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April 29, 2012, 11:35:14 AM
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Re: What's your least favorite base set? Expansion?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2012, 11:35:14 AM »
Ents of Fangorn. It was ok but was really boring. Liked the Balrog and Glamdring but thats it. And I would say ROTK for base set. But I liked the set but just least of the three in movie block.

April 29, 2012, 06:26:19 PM
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Re: What's your least favorite base set? Expansion?
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2012, 06:26:19 PM »
ROTK had several great [Gondor], [Wraith] and [Sauron] cards though, so it wasn't that bad.
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May 06, 2012, 05:20:38 PM
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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2012, 05:20:38 PM »
Fellowship of the Ring. TOTALLY ruined the game for me.

May 07, 2012, 07:27:47 PM
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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2012, 07:27:47 PM »
We can tell.  You haven't stopped ranting about it ever since.
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May 07, 2012, 08:28:36 PM
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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2012, 08:28:36 PM »
I mean, Isildur's Bane? WHAT WAS DECIPHER THINKING?! :roll:

As I worked my way down the initial spoiler list, I knew by Dwarf Guard that the game balance would never be the same again.

May 08, 2012, 01:04:58 AM
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« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2012, 01:04:58 AM »
Fellowship is such a great set, it sucks they stopped making allies after set 9  :-|
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May 08, 2012, 04:28:03 PM
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« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2012, 04:28:03 PM »
I'd have to say The Hunters set.  Whenever I see someone whip out a hunter minion, it immediately makes me know that I'm in for a pretty frustrating and boring game.  I just didn't like the entire hunter keyword, and some of the strategies that arose with the set (wounding warg riders, hunter uruk-hai, Bill Ferny w/ stragglers, and Not this time! for ninja gollum decks.)  Expansion, I'd have to say Bloodlines.  It was a waste, and had a ton of weak cards and came with weak deck ideas.

May 08, 2012, 04:57:19 PM
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« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2012, 04:57:19 PM »
Gotta agree with you on Hunters, man. Also, that entire block was riddled with typos and grammatical issues - from a perfectionist's standpoint, it was atrocious and lazy.