Tag Archives: Contract

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

Play Report: Epic Helm’s Deep

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Beorn

On Saturday I had the pleasure of joining many members of the community to test out The Purple Wizard’s Epic version of Helm’s Deep. We had three different teams, working together to defend the Hornburg. I joined Durin’s Father of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggro, Archetypes, Combo, Community, Contract, Events, Game Variant, Media, Multiplayer, OCTGN, Play Report, Play Style, Power, Screenshot, Series, Twitch | Tagged Aggro, Community, Con of the Rings, Contract, Durin's Father, Epic Helm's Deep, Epic Multiplayer, Fantasy Flight Games, Forth the Three Hunters, Game Variant, Grimbeorn's Path, Living Card Games, The Battle of the Hornbug, The Lord of the Rings LCG, The Purple Wizard, Tolkien, Wandering Took | 2 Comments

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

Bear Market: Tier 2 Favorites

Posted on January 22, 2021 by Beorn

As a Living Card Game grows, the best cards become apparent. The cream, as they say, rises to the top. While this game is technically in some kind of torpor, the same principles apply. A quick perusal of the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggro, Archetypes, Bear Market, Combo, Contract, Power, Series, Tribal | Tagged Ancestral Armor, Armor, Bifur, Card Lists, Contract, Elfhelm, Fantasy Flight Games, Favorites, Firefoot, Gildor Inglorion, Hirgon, Knight of the White Tower, Light the Beacons, Living Card Games, Location Control, Mechanics, Meneldor, Merry, Mount, Narrative, Oath of Eorl, Pillars of Kings, Resource Economy, Restricted, Secrecy, Silvan Tracker, Spirit Elfhelm, Spirit Merry, Strategy, The Hidden Way, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Theme, Threat Control, Tier 2, Tolkien, Underrated, Unique, Valour, Windfola, Woodmen's Clearing | 4 Comments

Play Report: A Weary Pilgrim Hunts the Dreadnaught

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Beorn

I just successfully completed a rousing game against The Hunt for the Dreadnaught scenario pack. I used an updated version of my alternate art fellowship deck, A Weary Pilgrim. This time the game was standard mode, but it will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Contract, Control, Play Report, Power, Theme | Tagged Action Advantage, Contract, Control, Easy Mode, Fantasy Flight Games, Fellowship, Hard Mode, Hobbits, Living Card Game, Resource Acceleration, Scenario Pack, Secrecy, Ship Enemies, Ship Objective, Solo, Standard Mode, Strategy, The Hunt for the Dreadnaught, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Turtling | Leave a comment

Alternate Art: The Last Temptation of Boromir

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Beorn

‘Why are you so unfriendly?’ said Boromir. ‘I am a true man, neither thief nor tracker. I need your Ring: that you know now; but I give you my word that I do not desire to keep it. Will you … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggro, Alternate-Art, Art, Books, Combo, Decks, The Lord of the Rings, Theme | Tagged Breaking of the Fellowship, Contract, Fantasy Flight Games, Forth the Three Hunters, Frodo Baggins, Living Card Games, Narrative, No Allies, Sam Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Thematic, Threat, Threat Control. Boromir, Tolkien, Valour | Leave a comment

Alternate Art: Nouveau Hunters

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Beorn

Art Nouveau was a style of art, architecture, and crafts which came into prominence in the late 19th century. Even today, more than a century later, Alphonse Mucha is associated with the Art Nouveau. Unlike many artists from earlier movements, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternate-Art, Art, Decks, Mono-Sphere, Multiplayer, Theme | Tagged Alphonse Mucha, Alternate Art, Art Nouveau, Arwen Undomiel, Contract, Deck Building, Eowyn, Fantasy Flight Games, Forth the Three Hunters, Galadriel, Mono-Sphere, Mono-Spirit, Multiplayer, Quest Deck, Strategy, Style, Support Deck, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Theme | 3 Comments

Alternate Art: Grimbeorn’s Path

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Beorn

For a while now I’ve wanted to create a saga deck with the latest card pool and play through all of the quests in a full campaign. It should come as no surprise that I wanted to build a deck … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggro, Alternate-Art, Art, Community, Contract, Decks, Grimbeorn's Path, Key Concepts, Power, Solo | Tagged A Test of Will, Aggro, Alan Lee, Alternate Art, Armored Destrier, Arwen Undomiel, Beornings, Blood of Númenor, Card Draw, Celebrant's Stone, Contract, Deck Building, Elrond's Counsel, Elven Spear, Elven-light, Fantasy Flight Games, Forth the Three Hunters, Gildor Inglorion, Golden Belt, Gondorian Fire, Gondorian Shield, Grimbeorn the Old, Heroes Only Decks, Legendarium, Light of Valinor, Living Card Games, Low Character Count Decks, No Allies, Open the Armory, Power Deck, Readying, Resource Acceleration, Restricted Attachments, Rohan Warhorse, Round Shield, Saga, Saga Quests, Silver Circlet, Steed of Imladris, Steward of Gondor, Strategy, Strider, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Tolkien, Unexpected Courage, War Axe, Windfola | 1 Comment

Alternate Art: All The Pretty Horses

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Beorn

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and … Continue reading →