Shadows of the Wild – Deck Testing, Part 2

Welcome back to Experimental Deckbuilding! It should be noted that I had planned to release the narrative of the Conflict at the Carrock before this post went live, but it isn't ready yet, and this one was. In our last installment, we went through the first two quests of our testing regimen for the Shadows …

Shadows of the Wild – Deck Testing

Welcome back to Experimental Deckbuilding! Today, we are going to go over the first round of deck testing results for the Shadows of the Wild fellowship. I had originally intended to do this as a single post, but I constantly worry about walls of text, and this post got long enough with only 2 quests. …

Lights in the Marshes

I've spoken before about how I feel about the way that the premise of this entire cycle stands on shaky canonical ground. Aragorn's hunt for Gollum happens only shortly before the events of the War of the Ring, and the earlier hunt was abandoned nearly a decade before. To make sense of things, we've had …

Agents of the White Council – The Hunt for Gollum

At the sound of Lanwyn's sharp whistle, Eleanor signaled a halt. Dismounting, she walked over to where the young woman knelt on the muddy riverbank. Crouching down, she looked closely at the torn bank. "What is this?" "Tracks, Lady. Some creature - smaller than a man but not by much - crouched here for some …

Hunting Among the Hills

The next step in the journey of Eleanor and her companions as they attempt to track down Gollum is the daunting hills of the Emyn Muil. Their twisting canyons and crumpled landscape offer many places for a refugee to hide, and will require all the skill that their scouts and trackers have to offer. Now, …

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 …

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 …