Another minor point, but it's the first instance of healing outside of lore other than the Remedy. It's not that great if you are primarily using it that way, but at least it's an option.

7 hours ago, John Constantine said:

I'm not saying it is completely horrible, it has diverse potential, I just don't see why it gets "oh my god this is going into every deck ever" kind of hype. It's 1 per deck. There will be games you won't even draw it.

I think the hype comes from beeing able to splash it into any kind of deck, thus adding e.g. healing to a non-lore deck, etc.

Honestly, if I would need healing all that much, I'd build a deck that has lore rather than rely on one 2-cost card in a deck that allows me to heal 1 damage for 1 threat per turn.

Why do Quickbeam has to get 2 damage? Shouldn't 1 be enough?

Besides, why the cards say (C) 2016?

The availability of so many diverse effects on one neutral card is pretty neat. Keep in mind you're paying for all of these things, not just any one. For instance, the healing isn't a great deal, but if you brought it along for the readying, you might find a situation where one point of healing makes the difference on the survival of a hero.

I don't think it's busted good, but I think it fits in a lot of decks. The amount of flexibility is impressive.

I don't always need to ready. I don't always need one measly point of healing. I don't always need an extra resource.

But if I do, I'm usually willing to pay 1 threat for it.

http://hallofbeorn.com/LotR?CardSet=The+Crossings+of+Poros

Heh. At Hall of Beorn, Quickbeam is unique :).

8 hours ago, John Constantine said:

Why the hype behind the ring? Is everybody that willing to sacrifice 1 threat each turn?

1 healing for 1 threat? Prepostrous! Will only be ever used in situations where a hero's life gonna depend on it.

1 resource for 1 threat? Sounds good on paper. In reality, you're paying 2 for this ring, so you're gonna have to wait 3 turns for it to bring you net profit, and that would be only in terms of resources, the first two times you'll use it to gain a resouece, you'll be making up for it cost and raising your threat by 1 each time you do so. In short the term of 3 turns, it's gonna look like "pay 2 resources and raise your threat by 3 to wait 3 turnd and gain 1 resource". Looks very slow for a game that blows you out with ten 9 attack enemies on turn 1.

Readying for 1 threat is the most decent thing this ring has, but in the current pool with so many readying stuff around, it's really hard to justify for me personally.

I'm not saying it is completely horrible, it has diverse potential, I just don't see why it gets "oh my god this is going into every deck ever" kind of hype. It's 1 per deck. There will be games you won't even draw it.

This is going in all my decks ever because it's my favorite card to come out of FFG in ages. For years I predicted, wished, BEGGED for the exploration of the Artifact trait and particularly the themes of magic or lesser rings. There were people who disagreed with me and said we would never get these magical artifacts or these "darker" themes. They were at least partially wrong, because we did get a Lesser Ring, and like the Beorning it might be a hint of more Artifacts to come in the next cycle. Thematically speaking, one of these was something I most wanted to see. Not only that, but for the other reasons people listed this card is amazing, if anything to have 1 copy of a piece of Gandalf's Staff (the thing I use it for the most is resource acceleration anyway), emergency healing and readying in neutral. This card is incredible. I love every single part of it. Maybe it won't go in ALL my decks ever as I have like 10 physical decks built at all times, but if I were to buy enough copies of this pack, it probably would.

I wish they would do a proper Saruman.

Quickbeam, Scorpagorn & Merry(T) can wipe the board of enemies with just a few rohan warhorses.

Just now, John Constantine said:

I wish they would do a proper Saruman.

Now that we have a Lesser Ring and they seem to be more open to explore artifice and corruption, it's all the more likely. I really would love to have Saruman hero as well.

3 hours ago, Gizlivadi said:

Now that we have a Lesser Ring and they seem to be more open to explore artifice and corruption, it's all the more likely. I really would love to have Saruman hero as well.

We all want Saruman, but he needs to be unique. I'm working on some (right now 11 in text form) custom Saruman cards (with some very unique abilities), and would be very disappointed if the real cards were less "extreme".

Nice cards, love the Hero and the ring.

the craziest thing happened today. As i usually do, i pre-ordered the whole haradrim cycle in a local retailer (in Greece).

Today the Crossing of Poros was updated to be "in stock". At first i was sure of it to be a mistake, but it turned out to be true.

So I have in my hands the 6th adventure pack that seems to be "in development".

There is no logical explanation behind this. (or apparently there is, but we don't know it yet)

Please let us know about the adventure, especially which card sets are used.

Oh!. Does the insert tell you where we are going next?

25 minutes ago, antonick said:

So I have in my hands the 6th adventure pack that seems to be "in development".

...and is Quickbeam unique?!

THIS POST IS FULL OF SPOILERS, PLEASE DO NOT READ FURTHER UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING NEXT!

First of all, i think the next cycle is taking place in Dale !

And i quote from the Epilogue's last sentences: (context: Denethor made Kahliel take an oath never to attack Gondor again, then Kahliel is troubled because his folk is now houseless)

"Gondor is not the only realm in Middle-Earth. There are others who are not so proud. Perhaps King Brand in Dale will have room for you. His kingdom already has dealings with Elves and Dwarves; your people are closer kin than they", reassured one of the heroes

"Tell me of Dale and King Brand", said Kahliel.

The adventure uses the following encounter sets: Crossings of Poros, Mountains of Shadow (also included in this adventure pack), Desert Sands, Desert Creatures, Harad Soldiers and Mordor Orcs.

And unfortunately Quickbeam does not have the unique symbol.

If there is anything else I can tell you, questions are welcome

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The ring is also not restricted, which is extremely useful and also means Quickbeam can where the magic ring.

5 hours ago, soullos said:

The ring is also not restricted, which is extremely useful and also means Quickbeam can where the magic ring.

Ultra Spectacular Ruse Nonbo of the Day: ready Quickbeam by dealing 2 damage, then exhaust the magic ring to heal one damage and take one threat... just ignore the fact that the ring can ready him for 1 threat anyway. we're going for SYNERGY

7 hours ago, antonick said:

the craziest thing happened today. As i usually do, i pre-ordered the whole haradrim cycle in a local retailer (in Greece).

Today the Crossing of Poros was updated to be "in stock". At first i was sure of it to be a mistake, but it turned out to be true.

So I have in my hands the 6th adventure pack that seems to be "in development".

There is no logical explanation behind this. (or apparently there is, but we don't know it yet)

i don't know why exactly you were able to get it early, but i can tell you that they print the whole cycle at once and then slowly ship them out. that's why, when there are delays, they're usually between cycles, but once a cycle starts shipping, there often aren't any delays between each pack

Great news if Antonick is correct!

Dam Bursts will fit nicely in my Treebeard/Merry/Pippin deck Ent and Hobbit themed deck. The fact that Ents enter exhausted really weakens that deck, so this will help.

I also like Bulwark of the West which will fit in my Gondor leadership deck when required.

The Magic Ring isn't a game changer IMO, but it's wonderfully thematic and will slot in all my decks

Pretty funny that a card who have a slot in all your decks is not a "game changer". It will obviously change the way to build decks since this is a solid option in all deck, so threat management should be re-thinking now :).

So, you're gonna magically start building whole decks around a 1-of that does a little bit of this and a little bit of that while raising your threat? Don't make me laugh. And also, a card that goes everywhere, as you say, is not a game changer.

A card that goes everywhere is a staple. It's neither powerful enough nor common enough to build whole decks around it, but there may be no other card in the entire cycle that will find its way into so many decks.