I have started a wiki entry here:
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/ts_sealed
... This has all the decks from series 1 uploaded and I'll work on adding the others when I have time. I did make one change to the Gandalf/Dwarf deck. I removed Barliman and put in Behold the White Rider in his place. Barliman was just too good IMO as we are already giving a decent Gandalf package. This will make him a great pull, rather than overpowered in the starter.
More testing needs to be done, but I think we are on pretty solid ground now.
The wiki entry looks so professional! I'm glad with the way the decks look and are designed to work, they seem like real starter decks (but a bit more clever
). Add Idleninja to the credits, as he worked on the Three Hunters / Uruk Trackers deck.
I agree in the point of Barliman's power and my vote goes towards his remotion. But I'm not convinced with
Behold the White Rider, for 2 substantial reasons:
The Grey Pilgrim with a Staff and 2 events just won't win many skirmishes (and 1 copy of
BtWR won't come early most of the times), AND this deck is meant to blow conditions with
Sleep Caradhras; that condition may work wonders with the Valiant Rohan / Gandalf deck, as it counts with
TMAYOD,
Leod,
An Honorable Charge and
The White Wizard (and a Staff) to ensure victories. It just doesn't fit here, so what else can we include? Even
Delving or a 2nd
Flurry of Blows would be better than Behold...
-
Intimidate or another
Have Patience, as each of those 3 Shadow decks in its fashion is meant to grind.
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Mithrandir, Mithrandir! or
Wielder of the Flame, to counter swarms.
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Fireworks or
Hugin can be a softer version of Mr. Butterbur, as this deck might need to sweep conditions more than once.
Fireworks can recycle
SHB too... With Grimir there might be too many FP cards reincorporated at the
end of the game, which can be a severe drawback. But
The Grey Wizard can help with that.
-
Task Was Not Done to facilitate double moves (Valiant Rohan has
Ever the Hope of Men).
- Another pump (
Mysterious Wizard,
Under the Living Earth,
Threw Down My Enemy).
The rest are either useless here (
You Cannot Pass,
Strength of Spirit,
RalL,
LiF) or overpowered (
Sleep Caradhras,
DiT,
Roll of Thunder,
TotT,
Depart Silently).
Intimidate,
Fireworks and
Wielder of the Flame are very interesting in my opinion, and the latter reminds me
a big point about Defender Bonuses we haven't discussed: in Serie 1 there is only one card with defender bonus (the mighty
Aragorn, Heir of Elendil), and Serie 2 has 3 (
Proper Poet AND
Elendil's Valor in RB Rangers,
Elendil's Valor in Knights), thus Gondor has both the monopoly of defender bonus AND 2 obvious FP
paths to accumulate it. Serie 3 has nothing (maybe
Thrarin, DS) but then Gondor gets to it's higher point...
Wielder of the Flame isn't a secure Defender aid and can erase Gondor's monopoly for good. And it doesn't mix too well with Valiant Rohan +
The White Wizard, as it would nullify Gandalf's +3 strength bonus most of the time (those 2 Gandalf decks aren't the stronger possible coupling, are very different themes). Wielder has my vote,
Fireworks would be my 2nd choice.
And in respect of the RB Rangers deck, I'd replace
Proper Poet with
Nice Sensible Hobbit (and
Smeagol, Poor Creature by removing another thing) or
Elendil's Valor with a RB Ranger trick like
New Errand. Taken the first suggestion, it would be finally worth of the name "Ringbound Companions"...
It's funny how long can be an argumentation about only 1 card slot
. Thoughts?
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