Another card from ALEP that I love but worry may be a bit overpowered. Picture this, a Bond of Friendship Hobbit deck plays this card. Within a few rounds 3-4 of those heroes have gained an extra resource, assuming each have different threat costs. The card can then move over to one of the heroes of another player in the Fellowship. Since Hobbits have such low starting threats, chances are the next player's heroes all have a higher threat cost, so 2 or more of them can now can get a resource each over the next few rounds. Hey, we need powerful cards like this. And it does require a unique Hobbit character to play, which prevents it being splashed around too widely.
A good ally in a general Rohan deck with Horn of the Mark, and a strong centerpiece in two cool combos :
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With Lothíriel (and Eomer)
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With Théoden + Gúthwinë + Théodred + Steward of Gondor, as he can technically come back and be played every turn to be the main chump-blocker then readying all the Rohirrim
Note that he is neither the best target for Gamling's response, since that last needs the Rohan ally to be discarded (not destroyed), nor the best one for Mustering the Rohirrim since we want him to leave play before the end of the turn for triggering its response.
The power level of the card depends on the interpretation of the word "total". It is an adjective that describes Bilbo's willpower, attack and defence. If we take into account the entry Qualifiers in the rules reference document on p. 13 "If card text includes a qualifier followed by multiple terms, the qualifier applies to each item in the list, if it is applicable. For example, in the phrase “each ready character and attachment” the word “ready” applies to both “character” and “attachment.”, then The Lucky Number should be interpreted as "Add Bilbo Baggins' total willpower, [total] attack, and [total] defence...", which means Bilbo's stats are added separately to the other character's corresponding stats. If that was meant the other way, I guess the wording would be something like: "Add a total of Bilbo Baggins' willpower, attack, and defence...".
Overall, the Lucky number is an OK card, which you can do without in the Hobbit quests. If you include it, better take care also to include the means to boost Bilbo's stats. In that case i. e. Sting is a must.
Elite with Glorfindel so that you can start with 5 and and then access his 12 Glorfindel killing machine version attacking unique enemies for 7 without any additional weapons or Strength and Courage (useable thanks to ).
The site text does not match the card text. "1 Rohan card" vs "1 Rohan ally card"....fairly large difference. I don't know how to submit this for a fix, but figured I'd mention it.
Would be really interesting if you COULD in fact dig for attachments or some of those Rohan events.