Frodo Baggins · RingsDB

Frodo seems like an extremely powerful and versatile hero. Low threat, decent stats that compliment his ability well (except maybe his which you likely won't be using much) and access to two of the game's most useful abilities: action advantage and threat reduction. In many ways he's comparable to Aragorn (an old classic and one of my favorite heroes), yet arguably better. Suddenly heroes with bloated statlines that have trouble taking full advantage of them (like Glorfindel for instance) can now perform to their full potential from the start of the game and without dedicating deckspace to action advantage cards that you or may not draw. Also the fact that his ability isn't limited to heroes means you can even target allies like Gandalf and Elrond, which can make him act like a pseudo Galadriel. With this ability alone Frodo would already be a very good hero, but the threat reduction is icing on the cake. Seeing as you will more likely than not be questing successfully each round, especially with Frodo's ability to supply action advantage, this essentially means your threat will stay static—barring Doomed cards and other encounter cards that raise threat, of course. This has so many applications, from the obvious Hobbit decks to secrecy decks, you name it. Plus being in Leadership means he shouldn't have much difficulty paying for that one resource each round. All in all I think Frodo has so much to offer to just about any type of deck.

5/11/20

ThimYorke 47

Giving access to repeatable threat reduction outside spirit is a big bonus (and probably the only card capable of it ?). — Emmental 677 1/20/21

does his threat reduction ability trigger only if you spend a resource and ready another character? or does it trigger whenever you quest successfully? Im just confused on whether these to are separate abilities or not — BlackArrow 363 6/4/22

They are part of the single response, so they're not separate. After you spend the resource, the ready happens straight away. Then if you quest successfully, you get to lower your threat. If you don't spend the resource, you don't get to lower your threat. — Mythik 232 6/5/22

idk why paying a resource to ready someone was such a common effect in leadership (elrohir, gimli, and now frodo) but there are enough ways to ready heroes that this kind of ability often ends up being more expensive than it's worth. a simple cram can do it for free, and unexpected courage can do it forever for 1 extra resource. there's also the fact that frodo can only ready them for questing, which severely limits his potential

he is able to ready allies as well, but there are very few of them with more than 1 important stat anyway, and many of those already have other ways to ready or quest without exhausting. the threat reduction is neat, but very inefficient for its cost.

so IMO the main reason to use frodo is as a substitute for sam in a hobbit secrecy deck, since he makes it easier to stay under 20 threat and he also lets you play the spirit sam ally, which has a very efficient statline and useful ability

3/26/26

melethron 31

The important thing to note about those kind of abilities though is that they do not rely on you needing to draw the right cards. Sure they are overcosted but you are also guaranteed to have them. Also worth noting that this Frodo can comb off with MotK Rosie, Power of Command and Galadriel+Nenya to generate 19 WP on round 1 (with only Nenya needing to be drawn) — Alonewolf87 2778 3/26/26

drawing cards is easy enough with the free mulligan and the many cycling cards available (daeron's runes, we are not idle, deep knowledge, etc). and there are a million gamebreaking things that can be done with contracts — melethron 31 3/26/26