Just as the topic says, the cards from Escape from Mount Gram are up!

http://www.cardgamedb.com/index.php/lotr/lord-of-the-rings-card-spoiler/_/angmar-awakened-cycle/escape-from-mount-gram/

Here's our new hero:

I'm glad to see the new hero works with the victory display. With Leave No Trace and all the other goodies she might be quite good.

Amazing cards. Beatiful art on the hero. All the cards seem like situational yet very powerful. Game creators, really good job!

I really like the ent cards and the spirit quest card.

I am not familiar with locations and enemies in victory display, but it seems to make the silvan hero very strong.

I like that the hero is low threat, maybe she could work in a secrecy deck with Glorfindel and Pippin that uses Out of the Wild plus all the other victory display things. You can even use Distant Stars to boost her willpower. I think that with all the new things plus many of the old ones you could really build a good deck.

The ent cards are great. Do they even need more support at this point? We'll probably get a couple more cards for them (the healing ent and maybe another unique ally) but I hope there's not too much. Other traits need more support IMO.

I like the two leadership cards. Glad to see that we now have the Veteran so the Gondor deck is even more of a thing. Descendants of Kings seems powerful, but I don't know how it will work in practice. I hope we get more Dunedain support and especially allies this cycle.

Love the ent cards. So good.

We might see a tactics ent hero this cycle. Maybe.

The spirit side quest is very plain.

It's good, yes, but just very straight forward imo.

I have to make up my mind on the new hero after I've tried her though.

I do like the idea, but I not too sure on how stable her abilily will be.

Seems like it can be useful in some quests, but there is only 1 way to find out.

I have mixed feeling about this pack.

Flavor Fail? Wasn't it the Noldor who were supposed to manipulate the victory display? If so, why is Tauriel Rossiel sylvan?

Some good cards though and I like Rossiel otherwise.

The ent cards are great. Do they even need more support at this point? We'll probably get a couple more cards for them (the healing ent and maybe another unique ally) but I hope there's not too much. Other traits need more support IMO.

You mean Wellinghall Custodian right?

Indeed they are already too strong, there are other traits that need more support ... Noldor allies to start with

No, Noldor have the Erestor discard thing.

I love the Ents but I wouldn't say they are too strong. Have you guys had full Ent-on power decks built? Or will you now? I like how the Tactics event can help hero Treebeard. And yes, we need a Tactics hero Ent but I do not think so. The next one will be Dori, most likely and then there will be no more Tactics heroes this cycle.

I played the Road to Isengard with a full Ent deck, it was quite good and seemed strong. Won on first attempt I think

Also tried the old forest and again it was doing well, though I lost cause I made some bad choises

Have we seen an effect like Leave No Trace for enemies to help enable Rossiel?

Caldara thanks you for the Elven Jeweler.

Have we seen an effect like Leave No Trace for enemies to help enable Rossiel?

out of the wild & scout ahead.

Distant Stars just nuked Gladden Marshlands.

Distant Stars just nuked Gladden Marshlands.

Oh yes, this card will be very strong vs the right NM decks; especially in combination with Thror's map, to counter those nasty travel effects.

I was thinking on using it against aJtR: discard a location to fish out forest grove.

Then when it's explored you can use leave no trace and boost Rossiel

I'm excited about these cards. I was already interested in a victory display deck, but now Rossiel makes that more interesting. I'm just glad she has relatively low threat.

The rest of the cards seem well balanced. I think all of them could be strong in certain situations. Ents get a big boost. I wonder what the best hero combination would be for ents. I had been using Treebeard, Elrond, and Mirlonde, but now there is a lot more tactics. Now I might go Hobbit-y with Merry, Pippin, and probably Elrond.

I love this pack. Rossiel is going to become a favourite for sure - I need a solid quester/defender in my support deck. Deciding between hers and Erestor's mechanic will be difficult if I don't want to scrap cornerstones like Elrond. Great cards overall, really looking forward to this.

I think by the time this cycle is finished Rossiel is going to be considered a very strong hero. Her proficiency is obviously tied to how much you're utilizing the victory display mechanic, but you've got to think beside leave no trace and out of the wild we will at least get another event that puts an enemy in the display after defeating it and probably another card or two that further complement the archetype like keen as lances.

I'm pleasantly surprised they went in this direction for a hero as well, when we the victory display mechanic was originally revealed in the preview articles I was kind of underwhelmed. It seemed fairly meticulous for only marginal and circumstantial benefits. Having a hero who can have a 4 statline in WP or DEF now based of that is huge, especially for lore. That low threat cost is just icing on the cake especially considering they didnt give her any threat cost penalty for what her stats have the potential to be. Only weakness for her is that it can just take some time and some good draws for her to really hit her stride and as we all know this game is oftentimes decided within the 1st few turns. Another weakness is that the bonus is trait specific but on paper I dont think that will be a big deal. I feel there is generally an average of 2 or 3 trait types among enemies or locations in a quest.

Excited to give her a go, will probably pick up at GenCon this week. Hopefully can play it with some of you there

we will at least get another event that puts an enemy in the display after defeating it

Citation needed?

Anywho, I agree, and we can expect at least 2 more Lore victory display events, one is The Door is Closed which will be in pack #4 and the other will be in Across the Ettemoors since Matt gave it as one of the options to be spoiled. I hope you are right and that it will be an enemy version of Leave No Trace. That would round up the strategy pretty nicely.

I guess the option Matt mentioned is "None Return" from the preview article and it indeed looks like (edit: is) an enemy version of Leave No Trace:

Judging by that name and art I think we can be pretty sure of it.

Assuming they continue with the victory display mechanics, I don't think there is a single dud in this pack.

I love how the Treebeard hero can use his ability with Boomed and trumpeted to ready himself and give himself obscene amounts of attack!

I think the least interesting cards are Distant Stars and Elven Jeweler. DS is cool but exhausting the Ranger/Scout character could be a steep cost depending on the situation, and you may have to wait a while for the optimal location setup, assuming there is one with that quest. There's nothing wrong with Elven Jeweler, but once you get her into play she offers relatively minor contributions with her numbers.

Tactagorn + Straight shot can destroy that Ruthless Hill Troll easy.