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Not technically a "block" format, '''Movie Block''' refers to the Standard format as it existed immediately before the release of Shadows in November 2004. It | Not technically a "block" format, '''Movie Block''' refers to the Standard format as it existed immediately before the release of Shadows in November 2004. It allowed all sets 1-10 (all of the sets available at that time) and used the [[King Block]] site path. Ring-bearer skirmishes cannot be cancelled in Movie Block. | ||
"Movie Block" was the name for the format on Decipher's ''Lord of the Ring Online'' platform<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041231003450/http://lotrtcg.decipher.com/notes/events.shtml December 2004 Event Schedule]</ref>. Although it was not offered much support, it was unique in that it was supported by Decipher at all -- no other legacy [[Standard]] format was. The [[The Last Homely House forum|TLHH forums]] and [[GEMP]] carry on | "Movie Block" was the name for the format on Decipher's ''Lord of the Ring Online'' platform<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041231003450/http://lotrtcg.decipher.com/notes/events.shtml December 2004 Event Schedule]</ref>. Although it was not offered much support, it was unique in that it was supported by Decipher at all -- no other legacy [[Standard]] format was. The [[The Last Homely House forum|TLHH forums]] and [[GEMP]] carry on this somewhat confusing nomenclature. On [[mLOTRO]], the format is called "King Standard" (not to be confused with [[King Standard|Return of the King Standard]]). mLOTRO has its own separate "Movie" format, which includes sets 1-8 and [[Mount Doom|set 10]] but not [[Reflections|set 9]]. | ||
Its popularity can be attributed to many reasons: the nostalgia of playing the game during the heydey of the movies, the "goldilocks" card pool size, the later decline of Decipher itself. Above all else, it stands in direct opposition to [[War of the Ring Block]]. Every new block brought changes, but [[Shadows]] caused many fundamental shifts and was, in many ways, a reset to finally divorce the game's mechanical potential from its narrative beginnings. As with the Fellowship and Towers formats before, a portion of the player base wasn't interested in playing a new version of the game and instead continued to play the one they had come to enjoy. | |||
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