Comments on: Eye of Sauron

By: roman

roman — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 01:28:55 +0000

The problem with CORRUPTION is that the deeper you get into the game, the more likely your opponent’s minors are destroyed and the more likely they have cards to burn in order to avoid the damage. At least the “increasing” version of it alleviates that problem a bit, but he probably doesn’t have enough killing power on his own.

VOLCANIC ERUPTION is his movement card, so I’d be loathe to lose that one, but it could be 2-3 direct damage instead of 2 cards. Still maybe NO LIFE IN THE VOID needs to be an “attack from anywhere” card just to give him enough punch.

By: roman

roman — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:13:06 +0000

In reply to JAG18.

Sure, this is just to get it started. I’ve been thinking along the same lines, e.g. coming up with a bread-and-butter CORRUPTION card that either denies cards, or punishes you for stockpiling. Thing is, I think I want to keep his A6-attack-from-anywhere instead of implementing a direct damage card, because the latter would be especially difficult for Frodo to deal with, and Frodo & Sam should be a more feared opponent for this deck than other decks.

I think the Mouth will be the key to his damage output, so I’m considering a card that lets him bring the Mouth back from the dead. Otherwise, it’s too easy to defeat this deck by just focusing on the Mouth.

By: JAG18

JAG18 — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 03:27:14 +0000

I’ll start by saying that I don’t personally have a problem with the idea of this deck; I used to love playing an old game called “The Third Age” where the final boss battle is against the Eye of Sauron and all your characters run up and hit The Eye with their swords. It was crazy stupid fun.

Anyway, my problem with this deck is the lack of any overall theme. I’d like to see more cards like ONLY DEATH and give Sauron more cards that limit what opponents can do and let that be his theme.

The Mouth of Sauron looks good though; I just wish you could make a reference to “BfME 2” where the Mouth could remove his helmet and shoot a red beam of death as if The Eye was behind the helmet.