Experimental Deckbuilding – In the Shadows

I'll preface this post by noting that I haven't given up on the narrative writeups - I've been working on those as well. They just take longer than these experimental deckbuilding posts, and I think that I agonize over wording a little bit more. Anyways, this week has been exceptionally busy - I'm preparing for …

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The Wounded Eagle

So, I've been off on a tangent for several weeks, exercising my thematic deckbuilding muscles, and it's been really fun. Getting really deep into the decktesting for the Forth Eorlingas fellowship has been great as well, although I can tell that it's about time to let that one rest for a while. Anyways, it's past …

Forth Eorlingas! – Testing Report, Part 2

This article will cover the next two quests in our questing regimen - the Morgul Vale and Intruders in Chetwood. The Morgul Vale For the first test run on this quest, I reverted back to the decks as of the end of Journey Along the Anduin. The changes I made to tailor the fellowship for …

Forth Eorlingas! – Testing Report, Part 1

Welcome back to our deck testing for Forth Eorlingas! In today's installment of the series, we will be looking at our deck's performance against the first 2 of our examination quests: Journey Along the Anduin and Peril in Pelargir. The original plan, of course, was to cover the first 3 quests in this post, but …

Experimental Deckbuilding: Hobbit-Sense

So, I may have gotten distracted from putting together the writeup for Hunt for Gollum. Sorry about that. In my defense, I got distracted by building a deck. And so, since I don't have a write-up for you all today like I planned on, I'll give you a new Experimental Deckbuilding article today! So, without …

Experimental Deckbuilding – Testing Regimen

Welcome back to the Experimental Deckbuilding series! Today we are going to put together a testing regimen for our Rohan fellowship and examine what's working and what's not. Before we do anything else, we are going to want to look at this classic blog post from Tales from the Cards. It's an introduction to deck …

Taking the Fight to the Trolls

Welcome to the deckbuilding post for Conflict at the Carrock. Last time, we looked at the way the quest functions, which we will let guide our deckbuilding. The most prominent feature of the quest is the final boss fight with all four Trolls. This is no easy task, especially since we have essentially committed ourselves …