[V suggestion] Spells Born of Discord

[Jambo]

[V] Spells Born of Discord
Stage card permanent-event
Place this card with your Fallen-wizard if in play. Your Fallen-wizard receives a +3 to a roll of a magic duel initiated by another Wizard, Fallen-wizard or Ringwraith. Cannot be duplicated by a given player. This card gives one corruption point and one stage point.

FW defence!

[Bandobras Took]

Do they really need the defense? Every single Fallen Wizard has the means to grab spells from the discard which can be used as a defense:

Gandalf can get Wizard's Tests from the discard to help;
Radagast can pull in some Wizard's River Horses;
Pallando can pull Wizard's Voice;
Alatar can pull True Fana;
and Saruman can pull anything he darn well pleases.

As I understand it, the magic duel gives the advantage to the sages and those who hold magic cards in their hands. Given that the loser of these duels is always discarded, a further +3 to a defending roll for any class of avatars would probably have the effect of making people unwilling to try against those avatars.

The only scary thing I can see happening is a variant of the Akhorakill deck where you're guaranteed a large number of spells to be in hand, and Rhosgobel is right next door.

[Nerdmeetsyou]

I think this duel thing should be thought completly through before including it...

It's a nice idear but something is still missing to make it work properly....


maybe it must be part of a company VS Company battle...
and the wizards fight against each other, while the others do normal combat .... and your untaped chars could support the wizard or something like that....

maybe it doesn't discard the wizard...
or maybe it can only discard the wizard if your result is good enough...
in the other cases he only gets malis until end of game... or something like that...

[Bandobras Took]

To the list of cards that help FWs defend against Magic Duels we might add:

Fortress of the Isen
Fortress of the Towers
Guarded Haven

Since no cards that give marshalling points can be played on sites with these cards, neither Vanishment nor Roots of the Earth can be played.