Location Unlocked 1.0

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Losing to location lock in your multiplayer game? Add these powerful ladies to your squad and watch them obliterate locations left and right!

This is designed to handle all locations in three or four player games, with a bit of general support along the way. If you find yourself getting location locked against a quest, these are the gals to turn to.

Everything you need against locations is here. Got a really nasty one you just drew? Discard it with Heirs of Earendil or blank it with Thrór's Key. Locations piling up in the staging area? A couple Northern Trackers and/or Rhovanion Outriders can take care of those pretty quickly. Travel costs killing you or stuck at the wrong location? Thror's Map is the best in the business at that.

There are a multitude of ways to deal with locations nowadays, but in a four player game there is still no friendlier sight than a Northern Tracker hitting the table. Many quests, including several in the latest cycle, start off with a bunch of locations in the staging area. You want to get a Tracker in play as quickly as possible in those quests, and you can do that turn one thanks to Arwen Undómiel's extra resource. Get a second one out on turn two or three and you won't have to worry about location lock the rest of the game.

The rest of the deck is either there to build your engine or to support the rest of the fellowship.

~Mirror of Galadriel is the card you're most likely to mulligan for, and once you've got that and a Silver Harp in play you can find just about anything you need in your deck. Nenya is necessary to play the Lore cards. Elven-light and Long Lake Fisherman help with card draw (hint: over half your deck costs one).

~A Test of Will, Hasty Stroke, and Warden of Healing are there for obvious reasons. Later on in the game playing Shadows Give Way at a key time can completely turn momentum around.

~Preferably your fellowship doesn't need you for much combat and can help you out when necessary, but Idraen won't leave you helpless against a stray enemy. Tale of Tinúviel and Protector of Lórien can buff her up against something beefier when needed. Long Lake Fisherman make for good chumps too.

~The Hidden Way and A Watchful Peace help neuter the encounter deck later in the game

~There's a large sideboard here. It's mostly there to provide solutions to specific problems different quests pose. What I've made here is the best generalized deck I can make, but if you're looking for tech against a specific quest you'll find plenty of options there.

The game now sports a multitude of ways to handle locations. Earlier versions of this deck were stuffed with cards that added progress in different ways, but I found that what was here was really all I needed in most cases, so I could fill the rest of the space with other useful goodies. Get the trackers and outriders in play and let them go to work. If there's a card that's preventing that or killing you elsewhere, take it out with Heirs or Thror's tools. It's simple and it works great. Bring this deck to your next LotR gathering...your fellow players will love you for it!