The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Ian McKellen (Gandalf) may be joining the the production of the film ‘Borgia’. Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) was also attached to the film but has since dropped it. [More]
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Craig Parker (Haldir) is the first confirmed actor from the cast of LOTR:FOTR who will attend the Ring*Con2002 in Bonn, Germany in November. For more information about the Ring*Con2002, look here!
Highlights of the recent MTV Awards will be shown on UK Channel 4 on Sunday June 23, 2002 at 2.40pm. Thanks to JLS for the information!
Shot in 1999, before the already-released The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001) and Innocence (2000), Paul Cox’s 14th feature is a moving account of a real-life hero. Molokai: The Story of Father Damien is set between 1873 and 1889, during the time that the Belgian missionary priest (David Wenham) devoted himself to the care of victims of leprosy. [More]
One of the prevailing strategies in tournament decks today is the Run N Gun – or what is sometimes called the Super Fellowship. High powered characters, lots of Archery, and huge pools of twilight being generated. If you want to build a deck like that, move on. Stop reading this article. This article is about having fun and destroying your opponent’s hand so that he can do nothing.
To those of you who have stayed, welcome. Discarding is a fun strategy you can work into decks and in fact build into a deck on its own (I currently have two that I run).
First, discarding has been around since the beginning of the game and was, at first, the most abused strategy in the game. The first two major erratta’s to the game came to cards that forced discards – Far Seeing Eyes and Mirror of Galadriel. Both cards could cause your opponent to discard his hand before he could do anything about it. Does this sound like a strategy you would like to use?
Well, the first thing you might ask is whether the discard strategy is a viable strategy. The answer is a tough one – yes and no.
Discarding cards from your opponent’s hand is a great strategy for both fellowship and shadow (although Fellowship has a slight advantage here). By eliminating cards in the opponent’s hand, you are reducing the danger factor and the randomization that is caused by not knowing what is your opponent’s hand. As the shadow player, if they have no hand, you know they have no pumps. As the fellowship player, if they have no hand, you know they have no minions. This is incredibly important in making the deploy and move decisions in the game.
Discarding cards from your opponents draw deck is a great strategy for both fellowship and shadow as well (although shadow has a slight advantage here). Decking (the action of causing your opponent to discard his draw deck) your opponent of all his cards can have major ramifications to the game. A lack of a draw deck means a lack of hand and a lack of the unknown in the game. For Shadow it can have other implications as well – specifically a game winning condition if the right card is out.
So what cultures have obvious Hand and Draw Deck discard functions? Well, at the moment just 4 – Elves, Dwarves, Sauran, and Isengard.
I came across something interesting on the Official New Line Shop today, and I thought I would pass it along: The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Activity Studio CD-ROM. The CD contains printable photos, screensavers, desktops, ecards, etc. Even though it is only available for PC users, I would still suggest checking it out. [More]