Tag Archives: Control

Bear Market: Starter Deck Orphans

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Beorn

The Revised Core Set and Starter Decks are introducing a wave of players to the game and they represent the perfect starting point for anyone new to LCG adventures in Middle-earth. These products offer a wealth of cards to support … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Aggro, Archetypes, Bear Market, Community, Control, Multiplayer, RingsDB, Solo, Support | Tagged Aggro, Armored Destrier, Arwen Undomiel Ally, Control, Dagger of Westernesse, Deck Building, Enemy Engagement, Fantasy Flight Games, Forth the Three Hunters, Hall of Beorn Card Search, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG, Not in Revised Core Set, Not in Starter Decks, Popularity, Power Cards, Restricted Attachments, RingsDB, Staples, Strategy, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Threat Control, Tolkien, Treebeard Ally, Warden of Healing, Weapons | 2 Comments

Discussion: Bloodless Victory

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Beorn

Ah, that Time could touch a formThat could show what Homer’s ageBred to be a hero’s wage.‘Were not all her life but stormWould not painters paint a formOf such noble lines,’ I said,‘Such a delicate high head,All that sternness amid … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Archetypes, Books, Control, Decks, Legendarium, Literature, Mono-Sphere, Play Style, RingsDB, Series, Solo, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Theme, Tribal, Uncategorized | Tagged ALeP, Community, Control, Deck List, Fantasy Flight Games, Fatty Bolger, Folco Boffin, Forest Snare, Frodo Baggins, Heroism, Hiroshima, Hobbits, Living Card Games, Oppenheimer, Pacifism, Pippin, Put Off Pursuit, Ranger Spikes, Reading, Secrecy, Staging Area Control, The Children of Hurin, The Great Hunt, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Theme Decks, Tolkien, Violence, War | 1 Comment

Key Concepts: Surviving the Early Game Part 4 – Lore

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Beorn

Our adventure of early game survival has taken twists and turns, and finally we round the bend and arrive at the last of the spheres. Lore is not the easiest sphere to play. Many of the sphere’s strengths could be … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Aggro, Archetypes, Combo, Community, Contract, Control, Key Concepts, Multiplayer, Play Style, Series, Solo, Tribal | Tagged Asfaloth, Beravor, Card Draw, Control, Daeron's Runes, Deep Knowledge, Deeping Defender, Drinking Song, Early Game, Encounter Deck Control, Erestor, Fatty Bolger, Galadhrim Minstrel, Galdor of the Havens, Healing, Heed the Dream, Key Concepts, Lembas, Master of the Forge, Protector of Lorien, Readying, Scout Ahead, Thurindir, Victory Display, Warden of Healing, Wingfoot | Leave a comment

Bear Market: The Aldburg Plot

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Beorn

A Wolf Grey and furtive in the final twilight,he lopes by, leaving his spoor along the bankof this nameless river that has quenched the thirstof his throat, these waters that repeat no stars.Tonight, the wolf is a shade who runs … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Aggro, Archetypes, Bear Market, Community, Control, Mono-Sphere, Multiplayer, Play Style, Power, Series, Theme, Tribal | Tagged Bear Market, Card List, Community, Control, Cost Reduction, Fantasy Flight Games, Fatty Bolger, Gavin, Halfast Gamgee, Leaf Brooch, Living Card Games, Location Control, Scout, Scouting Party, Secrecy, Strategy, The Aldburg Plot, The Door is Closed!, Threat Reduction, Tom Cotton, Victory Display, Weep No More!, Widfast, Woodmen | Leave a comment

Bear Market: Children of Eorl

Posted on June 6, 2021 by Beorn

Each release brings changes to the meta-game. Existing archetypes are strengthened, entirely new strategies emerge, and many of the cards in the pool must be reevaluated. A living card games is “living” in multiple senses. The relative strength of a … Continue reading →

Posted in A Long-extended Party, Aggro, Bear Market, Books, Community, Control, Legendarium, Mono-Sphere, Series, Tempo, Theme, Tribal, Uncategorized | Tagged A Long-extended Party, Aggro, ALeP, Anborn, Archetypes, Bear Market, Children of Eorl, Community Content, Control, Fantasy Flight Games, Favor of the Valar, Gondor, Gondor Swarm, Gondor Traps, Gondor Valour, Living Card Game, Put Off Pursuit, Ride to Ruin, Rohan, Rohan Sacrifice, Rohan Staging Attack, The Lord of the Rings LCG, The Muster of Rohan, Tolkien, Valour, Veteran of Osgiliath | 1 Comment

Session 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, Power, Session Report, 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: Wandering in Search of the Entwives

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Beorn

ENT: When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough; When light is on the wild-wood stream, and wind is on the brow; When stride is long, and breath is deep, and keen the mountain-air, Come back … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternate-Art, Combo, Community, Contract, Control, Decks, Metagame, Theme, Tribal | Tagged Contract, Control, Deck Building, Ents, Fantasy Flight Games, Living Card Games, Resourceful, Secrecy, Single Hero Decks, Solo, Strategy, Strider, The Grey Wanderer, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Timely Aid, Tolkien, Treebeard, Tribal Decks | 6 Comments

Bear Market: Vengeance of Mordor Favorites

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Beorn

I had hoped to have more of the cycle released by this point, but the release schedule of the game has slowed to a glacial pace. Still, Wrath and Ruin is finally available in the US (apologies to our European … Continue reading →

Posted in Bear Market, Community, Contract, Control, Metagame, Multiplayer, Spoilers, Tribal | Tagged A Shadow in the East, Contract, Control, Deck Building, Decks Without Allies, Discussion, Doomed, Fantasy Flight Games, Gondor, Hero Only, Hobbit Optional Engagement, Living Card Games, Location Control, Rohan, Saruman, Silvan Bounce, Spoilers, Staging Area Control, Strategy, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Tolkien, Vengeance of Mordor | Leave a comment

Alternate Art: A Weary Pilgrim

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Beorn

When evening in the Shire was grey his footsteps on the Hill were heard; before the dawn he went away on journey long without a word. From Wilderland to Western shore, from northern waste to southern hill, through dragon-lair and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternate-Art, Combo, Contract, Control, Power, RingsDB, Theme | Tagged A Very Good Tale, Ally Mustering, Alternate Art, Contract, Control, Deck Building, Donato Giancola, Fantasy Flight Games, Fellowship, Gandalf, Hobbits, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG, Power Deck, Resourceful, Secrecy, Strategy, Timely Aid, Tolkien, Turtle, Wild Stallion | 7 Comments

Deck: Shire Yard Sale

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Beorn

While the new power cards from the Dale archetype were joining the party, amid much fanfare, a group of less-heralded cards were slinking around the back of the house, to smoke pipes and specifically avoid their more gregarious companions. Silvan, … Continue reading →