Passage Through Mirkwood

The original Passage Through Mirkwood is almost on the level of a tutorial quest. Sure, it has a few nasty enemies in Ungoliant's Spawn, Captain Ufthak, and Hummerhorns, but in general once you've figured out how to play the game it doesn't usually take too much to trounce this quest reliably. For those who don't remember, …

A Brief Note on Goals

Before I begin the first actual Thematic Nightmare post, I wanted to lay out a few goals for myself. It will be helpful to have some sort of procedure so I know when I can stop tweaking my deck and consider myself to have successfully "beat a quest". The obvious minimum bar is that I must actually win a game against …

A Note on Theme

For as often as the word "thematic" gets thrown around in the LotR LCG community, there's not really an accepted definition for the term. A lot of times, it's used as a synonym for "tribal"–a word which describes decks built to focus on a single (usually racial) trait like Silvan or Gondor. But traits don't capture the …

The Leaves Were Long…

And so it begins, a new Lord of the Rings LCG blog. This game has no shortage of excellent community content, it seems. We have an amazing deckbuilder, multiple fantastic podcasts, and a whole host of insightful blogs to help you analyze new cards, quests, lore, and the metagame. So why start a new blog? What more ground …