Category Archives: Alternate-Art

Alternate Art: Space Cowboy

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Beorn

Welcome to the first post of automated content, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood AI, BeornGTP. It turns out that replacing the crazy bear was less of a challenge that it might have at first seemed. It was a … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Aggro, Alternate-Art, Archetypes, Art, Community, Contract, Media, Series | Tagged ALeP, Alternate Art, Anime, Aragorn, Beregond, Bond of Friendship, Community, Cowboy Bebop, Deck List, Eowyn, Fantasy Flight Games, Fun, Ingold, Kattattack, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG | Leave a comment

Alternate Art: Hamburglar’s Turn

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Beorn

If you thought a Care Bears-themed alt art deck was ridiculous, you are in for a surprise. This deck is based on Brad Lee’s Burglar’s Turn Caldara Explainer deck. The description on RingsDB does an excellent job of explaining how … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggro, Alternate-Art, Archetypes, Art, Cardboard of the Rings, Combo, Community, Con of the Rings, Contract, Events, Media, Series | Tagged Alternate Art, Arwen Undomiel, Brad Lee, Burglar's Turn, Caldara, Combo, Community, Contract, Dain Ironfoot, Discard Pile, Fantasy Flight Games, Fun, Hamburglar, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG, Mono Spirit, Recursion, Ridiculous | Leave a comment

Alternate Art: The Last Alliance of Bears and Trees

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Beorn

Among the decks I brought to Con of the Rings 2022, my favorite was a deck called The Last Alliance of Bears and Trees, designed by Shellin of Cardboard of the Rings. The mix of Beornings and Ents, in an … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Aggro, Alternate-Art, Archetypes, Combo, Community, Con of the Rings, Events, Live Play, Multiplayer, Play Style, Series, Swarm, Theme | Tagged Alternate Art, Beorn's Welcome, Beornings, Birna, Care Bears, Community, Con of the Rings 2022, Contract, Deck Building, Ents, Fantasy Flight Games, Grimbeorn the Old, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG, Osbera, Quickbeam, Shellin, Strategy, The Last Alliance, Treebeard | Leave a comment

Alternate Art: All Heroes

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Beorn

This game boasts some of the best art of any card game, which is quite the feat given the number of card games created over the years. Like any hypothetical it is impossible to answer definitively, but I do often … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternate-Art, Art, Media, Series | Tagged Alternate Art, Art, Community, Fantasy Flight Games, Heroes, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG, Tolkien | Leave a comment

Alternate Art: La Llorona

Posted on October 22, 2022 by Beorn

As a child, I thought of Halloween as a fun night to dress up and gorge on candy. Like many holidays, there are much deeper cultural traditions underlying All Hallows’ Eve. In Mexico, Dia de los Muertos can be traced … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Alternate-Art, Archetypes, Art, Books, Combo, Community, Media, Series, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Theme | Tagged ALeP, All Hallows' Eve, Altar, Alternate Art, Community, Culture, Dia de los Muertos, Fantasy Flight Games, Galadriel, Halloween, La Llorona, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG, Memorium, The One Ring, Theme, Tradition | 3 Comments

Alternate Art: Eagle Storm

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Beorn

A sense of adventure and a desire to explore the world is at the heart of Tolkien’s writing. Trying to deconstruct our hobbies is a tricky business, but I have no doubt that my love of travel was in some … Continue reading →

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News: Con of the Rings 2021

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Beorn

Covid has put in-person games on hold for more than a year. Thanks to the vaccine, I’m finally ready to brave a convention and play some over the board games. After it was cancelled last year, Con of the Rings … Continue reading →

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Alternate Art: Wilderland Wildlife Sanctuary

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Beorn

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;The voice I hear this passing night was heardIn ancient days by emperor and clown:Perhaps the self-same song that found a pathThrough the sad heart of Ruth, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternate-Art, Archetypes, Art, Combo, Community, Media, Mono-Sphere, Poetry, Series, Theme, Tribal | Tagged Alternate Art, Art, Combo, Creatures, Eagles, Elrond, Fantasy Flight Games, Georgia O'Keeffe, Giant Bear, Gwaihir, John James Audubon, John Keats, Landroval, Light of Valinor, Living Card Games, Meneldor, Merry, Mono-Lore, Mono-Sphere, Poetry, Radagast, The Great Hunt, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Theme Deck, Tolkien, Tribal Decks, Vilya, Wizard's Pipe | 1 Comment

Alternate Art: Nurn Hobbits

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Beorn

I’ve been wanting to make an alternate art deck for a Hobbit Bond of Friendship list for some time. Whatever artist or style I sought, I just could’t found the right art. Then, in what was either a stroke of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternate-Art, Art, Cardboard of the Rings, Community, Contract, Media, Power, Series, Theme, Tribal, Tribute | Tagged Alternate Art, Bond of Friendship, Cardboard of the Rings, Chad, Contract, Fantasy Flight Games, Fortress of Nurn, Fun, Hobbits, Living Card Game, The Lord of the Rings LCG, The Simpsons, Theme Decks, Tolkien, Tribal Decks | 4 Comments

Alternate Art: The Old Elf and the Sea

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Beorn

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. —Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea After extensive research, the intrepid research hounds here at The … Continue reading →