10 hours ago, John Constantine said:

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.

I'm not sure if that reply was to me, but in all fairness I didn't say that I would start building decks around it - rather it would slot into existing decks. Actually I share some of your scepticism, but I still think it's a fun little card that can be useful. The way I play the game is to create a number of decks that last throughout each cycle* and have a sideboard of staples I can add into each. Currently I'm playing through Nightmare Hunt for Gollum Cycle with:

- Gondor leadership deck

- Dunedain leadership deck

- Noldor deck

- Silvan deck

- Rohirrim deck

- Gondor Outlands deck

- Dwarf deck

- Ent / Hobbits deck

The Magic Ring cards will simply go in my sideboard and then be inserted into one of these decks as I choose.

(*I am occasionally forced to create specialist decks mid way through cycles but try not to if possible)

(**My Gondor leadership deck (Denethor, Boromir, Theodred) absolutely stomped Nightmare Hunt for Gollum on Monday. I was generating 25 willpower by turn 5!)

Heh. Just checked my supplier's stock, and it seems like he also has it.

Emailed him just now to ask if he really got it.

Hope so!

Yes! He has it in stock. It's on it's way to my front door

the magic ring reminds me of cards like Gather Information or Treebeard, which are pretty decent options when deckbuilding and you need some extra "filler" cards to reach 50

I have a hunch that Crossing was mistakenly sent out in place of Black Serpent. In the US it was probably hastily recalled but in Europe they are being sold. I normally would have been notified that Black Serpent is available for pickup today. I'm going to drop in to my store later to pick up the Grey Havens Nightmares so I'll see if they can spill some beans. Probably we need to wait another week or two for Serpent now.

I doubt it will happen, but it would be nice if this got FFG to stop this "In Development" farce.

Haha.... I should have checked "Upcoming" sooner. Yesterday they pushed the release date on Serpent back one week.

No, I guess it was the 20th before. Wonder why they updated yesterday?

Interestingly, Crossings of Poros is now listed as In Development.

They are probably developing dat unique symbol for Quickbeam.

Quickbeam can be everywhere at once.

With less than a week to release, I'm surprised that we don't have full spoilers for The Black Serpent yet.

50 minutes ago, Authraw said:

With less than a week to release, I'm surprised that we don't have full spoilers for The Black Serpent yet.

They accidentally printed two orders of Poros instead.

2 hours ago, John Constantine said:

They are probably developing dat unique symbol for Quickbeam.

Would not be surprised!

So jelly of those who already have the pack!!

4 hours ago, Bullroarer Took said:

I have a hunch that Crossing was mistakenly sent out in place of Black Serpent. In the US it was probably hastily recalled but in Europe they are being sold. I normally would have been notified that Black Serpent is available for pickup today. I'm going to drop in to my store later to pick up the Grey Havens Nightmares so I'll see if they can spill some beans. Probably we need to wait another week or two for Serpent now.

I doubt it will happen, but it would be nice if this got FFG to stop this "In Development" farce.

Confirmed. This is pretty much what my supplier stated in his email. An error was made & Crossing was sent out.

On the plus side, a few months from now Crossing of Poros shouldn't be delayed.

4 minutes ago, dalestephenson said:

On the plus side, a few months from now Crossing of Poros shouldn't be delayed.

Unless they get lost in transit after being bandied about for a few weeks.

Gots the pack. non-unique quickbeam confirmed.

FFG will errata him no doubt, but until them I'm so gonna play an ent deck with both of them

Since the ally Quickbeam has a unique symbol, won't he conflict with the same-name Hero?

If ever there was a character to be in two places at once, "Quickbeam" seems a good candidate.

Yea I think so too.

I meant 2 of the same heroes. Ent/hobbit attack deck & Ent quest/defense deck or something (which is under construction)

8 hours ago, Noccus said:

Gots the pack. non-unique quickbeam confirmed.

FFG will errata him no doubt, but until them I'm so gonna play an ent deck with both of them

no, you're not taking it far enough.

play 2-, 3-, hell even 4-handed and go Oprah on your decks and include Quickbeam for everyone!

hell, make a mono tactics with 3 Quickbeam heroes--make FOUR mono tactics with 12 Quickbeams!

once you've done that, then you can start considering playing 12-handed Annuminas with 36

start making those proxies

Of course, you've always been able to use multiple copies of the same hero, since uniqueness rules only prevent cards entering play if another copy is already in play. Since heroes all enter play simultaneously, you're fine!

30 minutes ago, NathanH said:

Of course, you've always been able to use multiple copies of the same hero, since uniqueness rules only prevent cards entering play if another copy is already in play. Since heroes all enter play simultaneously, you're fine!

exactly!

In my opinion, the Magic Ring is a nice and thematic addition to the card pool. We don't have to be too radical about it. It is a good card that will find a place in many decks. I can speically think of some of my multi-sphere deck were I will include it to smooth resources when need it or to ready the hero. I have a dwarf deck with Nori that can afford the extra threat, or my Rohan Gondor deck with Spirit Beregon where I will include the ring.

Probably it is not a card you will use every round, but it will be very helpful on those rounds where you need the extra resource or the extra ready effect.

After all is a magic ring! "There are many magic rings in this world, Bilbo Baggings, and none of them should be used lightly"

For someone who has gotten this pack; I'm assuming you just get 1x copy of the Quickbeam hero?

And has anyone sent in a question yet on if this Quickbeam is supposed to be non-unique or not?

I would probably buy 3x of this pack to get 3x Quickbeams just for fun, but I'm not doing that until I know for sure whether they're just gonna errata/fix him though.

Knowing nothing is sure in this world, I would bet that they are 100% going to "errata" Herobeam.
I can't really see how someone could assume they left the symbol out deliberatly. All heroes are unique (makes sense as they all are unique beings in Tolkien's world) and we even have an ally of the same name, who is unique, too.

And you really don't need 3 packs or to care about errata to have fun with this game. Use proxies or whatever. If you have fun playing 3 copies of a hero just do it, FFG can't and wouldn't stop you. This is a game for personal enjoyment, not professional high stakes poker.