Nothing to feel bad about! I put the question to the Yahoo group and they wanted Smaug. Plus, his inclusion allowed the inclusion of Tauriel, who was worth including, at least from a movie perspective. Besides, who knows if a Giants set will ever come to fruition? If not, at least we have a Smaug.

Though, you might want another light sided character to go 2 light and two dark, and for that I don’t know who could be included.

Btw, I agree with a gimmicky, VERY powerful deck that wouldn’t be played often.

I’d also consider creating an Isildur & Elendil deck. Design the 2 decks at the same time, kind of the way original Luke and Vader were designed to fight each other. It would need to be very strong in general, but also with the specific Elendil-dies-powering-up-Isildur mechanic that would allow it to defeat Sauron.

Yeah, go for it! Robert made a couple of extra decks on his own as well. It’s supposed to work like SWED — there’s a base set to play with, and anyone/everyone can make his/her own decks to add to it.

If we had a Sauron and a Balrog, we could dig up Robert’s Ents deck. Then we’d just need to add one more for a “Giants” expansion. I can’t think of another oversized character I’d want to include though.

(To be clear, I’m not suggesting that you add my Sauron deck to the set; it’s more for my own purposes than anything else, though I do want to make it fit in the set power-wise while not making it impossible to beat. It’s also gonna be pretty gimmicky, probably not something you’d want to break out every single game.)

I’ve also been thinking of making a Sauron deck, simply because people keep asking me why Sauron isn’t in the set when they look at it. I started thinking of a solid idea for it back in August, I just need to sit down and knock it out.