Staff of Lebethron

Attachment. Cost: 1.

Item.

Attach to a Gondor or Hobbit hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack from an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, exhaust Staff of Lebethron to discard a shadow card from that enemy.

"They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor..." Faramir, The Two Towers
Kara Williams

The Land of Shadow #8 Leadership.

Staff of Lebethron
Reviews

Quite good on Sam in a Hobbit deck. I've tried it in a more medium threat deck (starting at 28) and it wasn't useable often enough to feel worth including.

Extra characters. Extra characters. Extra characters

dubcity566 35
Not bad with Tom Cotton either — Quetzal513 101
Ally Halbarad pairs perfectly with this. — MrObsolete 55
Here's some more extra characters: it took me another four years to the fact that you can have a hero dual wielding these. Sam with two staves, Fast Hitch, Hobbit Cloak, maybe Protector of Lorien... can really be incredible — Quetzal513 101

This card is wonderful against high-threat bosses that engage through quest effects. The very best of those is Lonely Mountain -- Smaug has 50 threat, and his shadows can trigger re-attacks via keyword. But not if they're discarded first!

dalestephenson 2070

A card that was way higher on this list before the release of Gaffer Gamgee, who transformed Hobbits (for the most part) from an archetype where a sturdy defender was a liability that you could often get around with through attachments like Staff of Lebethron to an archetype that seldom defends at all, meaning this card got pushed out of a lot of decks for me. Repeatable shadow cancellation is still awesome and should not be undervalued, however repeatable attack prevention is even better. I do still like it with the likes of Tom Cotton and occasionally Sam Gamgee, but I rarely see it in decks anymore outside of that.

Rating: 5.5/10

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