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Usually, hand extension means drawing extra cards at the start of or during the Shadow Phase, using cards like {{Card|Bent on Discovery}} or {{Card|Grishnakh, Orc Captain}}, or reconciling early, with a card like {{Card|Under Foot}}. However, that isn't the only way to extend your hand. Sometimes you can play cards stacked on other cards: {{Card|Goblin Swarms}} can store minions for re-use, or {{Card|Dunlending Looter}} can stack himself on a [[Site Control|site you control]] then replay himself in a later turn. Sometimes you can play minions directly from your [[discard pile]], with cards like {{Card|Uruk Captain}} or {{Card|Gollum, Plotting Deceiver}}. Sometimes you can even [[recur]] cards from your discard pile straight to your hand, with cards like {{Card|The Witch-king, Morgul King}} or {{Card|Goblin Hordes}}. As long as you're playing more cards that you would've been able to draw normally by [[Reconcile|reconciling]] at the end of the last [[regroup phase]], that's hand extension. | Usually, hand extension means drawing extra cards at the start of or during the Shadow Phase, using cards like {{Card|Bent on Discovery}} or {{Card|Grishnakh, Orc Captain}}, or reconciling early, with a card like {{Card|Under Foot}}. However, that isn't the only way to extend your hand. Sometimes you can play cards stacked on other cards: {{Card|Goblin Swarms}} can store minions for re-use, or {{Card|Dunlending Looter}} can stack himself on a [[Site Control|site you control]] then replay himself in a later turn. Sometimes you can play minions directly from your [[discard pile]], with cards like {{Card|Uruk Captain}} or {{Card|Gollum, Plotting Deceiver}}. Sometimes you can even [[recur]] cards from your discard pile straight to your hand, with cards like {{Card|The Witch-king, Morgul King}} or {{Card|Goblin Hordes}}. As long as you're playing more cards that you would've been able to draw normally by [[Reconcile|reconciling]] at the end of the last [[regroup phase]], that's hand extension. | ||
Generally, drawing cards after the end of the Shadow Phase isn't considered hand extension unless you can also somehow get extra cards into play by doing so. {{Card|A Shadow Fell Over Them}} can extend your hand (albeit at a high Twilight cost) | Generally, drawing cards after the end of the Shadow Phase isn't considered hand extension unless you can also somehow get extra cards into play by doing so. {{Card|A Shadow Fell Over Them}} can extend your hand (albeit at a high Twilight cost), but using {{Card|Plundered Armories}} to bounce a {{Card|Goblin Scimitar}} from orc to orc as they die in the [[Skirmish Phase]] lets you draw extra cards you probably can't play them this turn. Likewise, Shadow cards played in the [[Regroup Phase]] don't help with the skirmish, so a card like {{Card|Gothmog, Morgul Leader}} is not a hand extender. | ||
[[Free Peoples]] decks don't usually need to play all their cards at once quite as badly as Shadow decks do. As a result, hand extension isn't a term that applies to Free Peoples decks: instead, they are usually designed with an eye to [[cycling]] and [[filter]]ing out your deck. | [[Free Peoples]] decks don't usually need to play all their cards at once quite as badly as Shadow decks do. As a result, hand extension isn't a term that applies to Free Peoples decks: instead, they are usually designed with an eye to [[cycling]] and [[filter]]ing out your deck. | ||
