Good Meal · RingsDB

Sometimes we all just want to sit down and have a Good Meal. Others just want a full three copies in their decks. In all honesty Good Meal deserves those three spots. A one-off two resources in neutral is pretty good, as long as you can work around the trait restriction. My favorite use is in a Hobbit Pipe deck where you use this to pay for Galadthrim's Greetings and Smoke Rings. I think any deck with a Hobbit hero should have a couple copies of this card.

1/12/18

Wandalf the Gizzard 2587

My only issue with this card is that I find when I build a Hobbit deck, the majority of my events cost less than 2, so I somehow feel I'm not getting the full benefit of this card. However, it's true a Hobbit deck tends to be tri-sphere, so any resource smoothing is appreciated. Thematically I think it's wonderful. — Quetzal513 99 8/23/19

Recently I have found a sweet use for this card in my Aragorn / Arwen Undómiel / Frodo Baggins deck - Good Meal synergizes perfectly with Stand and Fight. Consider this: if you lack resources, you can play Good Meal on Frodo Baggins, discard it, then discard e.g. Gildor Inglorion with Arwen's ability to add a resource to her pool and then play Stand and Fight to put Gildor into play for 3 resources. And in a perfect scenario it can be done on turn one. In fact, in this situation you could play any 5-cost ally (belonging to a sphere of influence) on turn one this way, even if you don't normally have access to its sphere.

4/14/23

warlock000 4759

Pretty sure you can't reduce the cost of Stand and Fight using Good Meal. — Marctimmins89 116 4/15/23

Why? The cost to play the card ("X") depends on the ally you want to put into play. You just reduce the X by two. I see no reason why I couldn't use Good Meal in this way. — warlock000 4759 4/16/23

You can indeed use Good Meal to discount X cost events, I will quote here the relevant bit about this from the Rules Reference: For costs involving the letter X, the value of X is defined by card ability or player choice, after which the amount paid may be modified by effects without altering the functional value of X. — Alonewolf87 2530 4/16/23

What about this card? I put it in ever deck with a ln hobbit hero!! This attachment can reduce a lot of expensive event like the gratis hunt! I play correct or i did a mistake? And with erebor hammersmith i can retake it and replay more times

6/28/25

serpico 264

While this card is great with any Hobbit hero around note that it does not work well with the "must spend resources from 3 different heroes" events. If you discount those events you will not satisfy the requisite of spending resources from 3 different heroes so you will not be able to use stuff like The Great Hunt. But it works well with say Galadhrim's Greeting or Hour of Wrath. — Alonewolf87 2530 6/28/25