Foresight

[TelTura]

Ran across this nugget while crawling through the Wayback Machine's archive of decipher.com back in the day.  Thought it was rich:

In the realm of unbalanced cards, it could be far worse. Imagine if every Shadow deck could easily play The Balrog of Moria, instead of having a minion spot restriction like The Cave Troll of Moria! Since there is only one site 5 (and I doubt another will get printed), absolutely everyone would play The Balrog in every deck, fetching him out when the fellowship moved to The Bridge of Khazad-dûm. People would start building 59 card decks and then add one Balrog. The more unbalanced cards get printed, the less creativity goes into deck design. But I have confidence that Decipher will print a reasonably restricted version (versions?) of The Balrog.

January 15, 2002

http://web.archive.org/web/20030423055832/http://www.decipher.com/lordoftherings/strategy/freepeopleshadowconnect2.html

[Air Power]

The thing I found funniest about that page: "vessenes@earthlink.net"

a)  @earthling.net
b) actually posting your e-mail address and not worrying about being burried in spam

2002 was a different time.

[menace64]

Check out the Dunland design section. The writer talks about the Dunland culture returning after King block.

  ...if only...