lord of the rings lcg: the hunt for gollum

First opinion of these cards shows a bit of a double edged blade across the three, let’s look closer. The Hunt for Gollum is three stages, coming in a linear three cards. Let’s look at how that encounter deck is used by observing closer the scenario cards. However, the ratios and numbers of an encounter deck are like a Maiar’s appearance– not really that important. This could be a boon or a burden for the puny adventurers, we will look into that later! About 1/3 of the encounter deck is treacheries, which is balanced in terms of raw numbers, but higher than the amount you’ll see in some other quests. Diabolical, I love it! Seemingly contradictory to what I just said, this encounter has a relatively large amount of treacheries. Second, we see that this deck is very balanced in terms of types of encounter, meaning you’ll always have to be prepared for all three types of encounter. First, the chances of any given attack having a shadow card is essentially a coin flip. Of these cards, 23 of them have a shadow effect.

These combine to a total of 48 cards: 4 objectives, 13 enemies, 16 locations, and 15 treacheries. This particular quest is made of three encounter sets: Sauron’s Reach, Journey Down the Anduin, and, of course, The Hunt for Gollum. As a Balrog, I love numbers more than Gandalf loves hobbits. Let us start our endeavor by looking at the numbers. Puts on reading glasses, pulls up spreadsheet Being as the core set has been examined a million times by others, I would like to start my journey of evil with the first expansion quest: The Hunt for Gollum.

My evil has left Middle Earth, but I live on vicariously through the evils Sauron (of which I would like it to be known, was Morgoth’s LEFT hand man, history has that one all wrong) unleashes unto would-be heroes through the encounter deck. My terror is of legend both sides of Belegaer. I am Gothmog, lord of all Balrogs, slayer of Feanor, right hand to Morgoth, and high captain of Angband. On behalf of his highness, Morgoth, lord of darkness and most powerful of Valar, I welcome you to my Dark Corridor. I hope that you appreciate his unique perspective as much as I do. While he isn’t busy making war upon the Eldar, Gothmog enjoys writing strategy articles about The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. I invite you to a read the first of many articles by a new guest author: Gothmog, Lord of the Balrogs.

Lord of the rings lcg: the hunt for gollum