Council of Elrond

Thanks for the update and photographs! I hope we can see more in the next two days and in the days that follow.

Wish I was there!

I've submitted events for Saturday. ARDA or DARK ARDA will begin at 10 a.m. both days and we have a four hour block for the game. This will be followed on both days by either a Challenge Deck Tournament or Constructed Deck meet up. Basically any new players introduced to the game playing ARDA will b...

Let's do it!

I'll schedule ARDA for both days. Do you prefer light or dark?

Fellow travelers, Greetings from Goblin Town (Sacramento)! I'm gauging availability of players to journey here for a weekend of card play. I'd love to get both Hero ARDA and DARK ARDA on a table during this weekend. Plus I have all these nifty dream cards that are just begging me to use them. But be...

First, you captured hazard play correctly. The first opponent gets the opportunity to play the full hazard count against the acting player. If it can't be done, it passes to the next person -1. Only the first hazard player draws cards related to the new site picked by the acting player. Everyone who...

ARDA has come a long way and I appreciate this topic. I've played four or five different versions in the last decade. I've played the original at Gencon. Let us not forget the original intention of this game was pretty different. It has a lot of cards in it with altered text in order to fix those ca...

Great tournament report. That is an epic ARDA story! One for the ages!

Nice idea on the sideboard! We usually play with a non-competitive spirit and have a trading rule. The rule goes something like this: 1) No trading if it is your turn as the active resource player. 2) Trades are one for one. 3) You can trade resource or treasure cards. There are no hazard trades. Th...

Thanks for posting. I'm not aware of cvc minion cards. I would say take it out since cvc is almost always on. Have you had any luck getting this to a table? We've had 3 or 4 players. I'm hoping to bring it to the November convention in Sacramento and play it there. I look forward to reading your ver...

Not at all sure what all of the expansions names stand for. But I voted for Nine for Mortal Men. It may not be what I think it is. I've always thought a good expansion would be what if one of the powerful rulers of men got The One. The avatars would be people like Denethor, King Brand, Theoden, Prin...

I'll say yes to ordering a set and I think we can also order a set for Gene and Brian.

Thanks for your interest and your efforts! How are Palantirs used? It seems incredibly limiting to only allow their usage through one of the three Focus Palantir cards in the 600+ card play deck. Are there changes in the MELE rules that account for this that I'm not aware of? Otherwise, one variant ...

Sounds like a great game! Thanks for the write up. We also had a 4 player Arda last Friday in San Diego. I think we were all within 4 points of each other at the Council. We had Lure of Power + Traitor trigger. And at one point we had 2 Scimitars, 4 other hazard permanent events, Will of Sauron, an...