I was checking attachments for locations last night, and yes, Power in the Earth sprang to mind. I think Haldan is made for a Lore-Spirit deck, but I am not sure about Power. Would be great though, one of the weakest cards in the core set. Too bad Haldan's ability works only for active locations, otherwise Explorer's Almanac would be superb. As it is, Guarded Ceaselessly may be an option: you attach it to a location in the staging area, reduce its threat for a round, then travel, explore, draw. The cost of 0 is nice.

9 hours ago, stimpaksam said:

Also noteworthy I think is the fact that they are also creatures. And we all know who likes creatures...

Yeah, with the Stallion also having the creature trait, I think only the third non-eagle card to do so, perhaps a new version of Radagast is indeed coming. Or they try to revive the old one, but I think that would be hard: he is playable but far from great, which is a shame for a wizard.

Power in the Earth doesn't have direct synergy with Haldan, since his abilities key off the active location and the attachment only matters in staging -- plus it is off-sphere for him. However, if you're going to make it the active location eventually getting a card draw and exhaustion free questing might make it worth including, if just for the novelty of actually playing it.

Yes, most of the options now matter only when the location is in the staging area, but that is not a problem. You use the benefits (little they may be in case of Power, etc.), and once you travel and explore, you reap the fruits of Haldan's ability.

I hope we get a lot of support for this, as for now though, I think it makes Elf-stone a very good option: more so in combo with Woodmen's Path (I gather it will have 1 questing point even with the Stone). Mathom is another good candidate, even though it is off-sphere. I still feel Spirit would fit Haldan well, unlike Leadership which would provide Ranger's Provision...

I’m not an experienced player, I still consider myself a noob. But I’m thinking a Haldan location attachment deck with mono lore trap deck sounds interesting.

could it work? What 3 lore heroes would be best, how many attachments (location and trap) would make sense?

Well, most decks don't seek to do multiple things, but it could work. You would want Damrod of course, and maybe Pippin or Mirlonde. You'd have to leave room for allies so you would have willpower, attack, defense, etc. And enough events to keep the deck rolling. So maybe twenty attachments? On the other hand, you could go for the extreme with two lore control decks. One location attachments, and one traps.

Yes, I think they would in a way do the same things: you know Damrod is great for traps and card-draw, and Haldan for card-draw, too. I imagine for Haldan to be efficient, you want at least 12 attachments for locations (only a guess), and Damrod likes to have something like 14 traps, perhaps. You can do less, naturally, but I find it cool when you can rely on having traps pretty much every round.

So, I would not put those two together. I really feel like Spirit might be a good second sphere for Haldan. And maybe even Tactics because it seems Woodmen will not be great at defending.

And yes, as the wizard says, could be interesting with traps and locations, you can always stretch the deck-building with two decks, as they do not have to do everything each.

7 hours ago, Fingolfin Fate said:

And yes, as the wizard says, could be interesting with traps and locations, you can always stretch the deck-building with two decks, as they do not have to do everything each.

Ahem, there is a fine line between wizard and Gizzard, young grasshopper.

I see.

I love auto-draw heroes like Pippin and Damrod.

Add on the fact that there's two separate abilities and Haldan is nothing but awesome in my book. Also, called it with Wiglaf! The guy doesn't just look like a huskarl, he even plays like one(Give him shiny things, and he works hard for you, etc). Curious to see how many non-restricted Item attachments Dale'll get, since Raiment of War is great for him.

I really like Wiglaf, we are going to go on a lot of adventures!

Until an unfortunate treachery/shadow effect discards him from play.

http://hallofbeorn.com/LotR?CardSet=Roam+Across+Rhovanion

Also, to help out those strategizing for Haldan location attachment decks:

http://hallofbeorn.com/LotR?Category=Location+Attachment

On 5/23/2018 at 11:21 PM, stimpaksam said:

Also noteworthy I think is the fact that they are also creatures. And we all know who likes creatures...

Yes, indeed: Louis, Rupert, Morris and Stuart do.