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 …

Experimental Deckbuilding Series – Forth Eorlingas!

So, this is (hopefully) the start of a new series where I build a deck around a certain idea and run it through a gauntlet of test runs. I'll upload videos of some of the playthroughs so that everybody involved can get a sense for how the deck is running, and we'll tweak the deck …

Conflict at the Carrock – Quest Analysis

With the writeup for Escape from Dol Guldur recently finished, and the playthrough of the Hunt for Gollum already up on YouTube, it's time to turn our attention to the next quest in the Shadows of Mirkwood cycle: Conflict at the Carrock. Narratively, this quest represents a diversion from the overarching story of the cycle …

Agents of the White Council – Escape from Dol Guldur

The stony heights of the treeless hill rose up out of the darkened forest. This close to the stronghold of the enemy, the land felt foul, and even the trees seemed malevolent. Eleanor and her little company had approached the cursed place by night, the cloud-encumbered sky a welcome cover from hostile eyes. Haldir and …