A Stroll Through Mirkwood 1.0

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Just to clarify, what do you mean by "forget about two getting out" while talking of Steward of Gondor?

Sorry, what I meant was, if you get two copies of Steward of Gondor out, you won't have anything to worry about playing anything because you'll be flooded with resources.

I thought it was something like this. Steward of Gondor is a unique card and if there is a copy a specific unique card already in play no one (nor you nor other players) can play another copy of that card. So basically you are limited to only 1 Steward of Gondor in play per group.

Ah, you're right! That explains why that one game was so easy ;) I'll have to look for other ways I was accidentally cheating with the deck. Let me know if you see any other inconsistencies.

A possibly important distinction, you don't draw cards during the refresh phase (which is the last phase of a round), but during the resource phase (which is the first phase of a round).

A Burning Brand post-errata needs to be exhausted and is restricted so remember you can have max 2 of them on a single character and each copy can only cancel 1 shadow.

For the rest remember that what I said about unique cards applies to allies too (so no double Faramir). I would also think if it's worth including Strength of Will (especially since you need to see a Song of Travel before being able to use it. I would switch The Favor of the Lady for a 3rd copy of Dúnedain Quest too. Another possible route would be using some Song of Battle on Bilbo to attach to him too a Support of the Eagles to make him a better defender.

Gotcha! In my games I actually never found myself with more than one A Burning Brand on the table at a time but good to remember. I have remembered with characters about the unique card rule (it's was a little easier to remember that there couldn't be two Faramir's running around.) That would be amazing if there could be two of him out. All questing troubles would be no more.

I actually been thinking of taking Strength of Will out of the deck because if I put Song of Travel on Théodred and he is always questing I don't usually have another character to exhaust when I travel. I could put some Unexpected Courage in the deck but then I'm starting to get too much and relying on the song too much. I might just ditch the song entirely and replace the cards with two more Support of the Eagles like you said and some other ones. The thing holding me back is that Northern Tracker is just sooooo good and I love seeing them show up and do a lot of work in the quest.

Could you tell me a situation in which it is important to remember that the draw happens in the resource phase and not the refresh? I'd like to know so I know what to prepare for.

There might be times when negative stuff, like an enemy attack, happens "at the end of the round", which is the very last part of a round (after the refresh phase), before the next round starts. Since the "end of the round" is before next round's resource phase you would not already have in hand the cards you will draw then, which means you would have less options (and possibly less cards for Protector of Lorien if the negative stuff is an enemy attacking and you want to defend with Bilbo)