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Over the Isen (4U31)

	Set:		The Two Towers
	Kind:		Shadow
	Culture:		Dunland
	Twilight:		0
	Card Type:		Condition
	Game Text:		Plays on a site you control. Regroup: Spot 2 [DUNLAND] Men and discard this condition to make the Free Peoples player choose to move again this turn (if the move limit allows).
	Lore:		Hordes from Dunland laid waste to villages as their numbers grew.
	Rarity:		R
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General Strategy

!No Retreat is capable of killing a Free Peoples player outright by forcing them to take a move they simply aren't prepared to make -- and therein lies the trouble with this card. As powerful as it seems (and rightly so), it's often either redundant or useless. If you have a site under your control and can get 2 [Dunland] Men to the regroup phase, you're already making big gains with your Shadow side and probably won't need to push your opponent to win. On the other hand, if you're having trouble keeping sites or keeping your [Dunland] Men alive then this card will do nothing but clog your hand. Unless your deck is built to use Dunland's characteristic low site number to win quickly, leaving this card out in favor of extra pumps or situational minions such as Wormtongue or Shotgun Enquea will give your deck more consistency.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strong Versus...

• Decks which rely on their Shadow sides for victories and build their Free Peoples to simply survive
• Free Peoples strategies such as choke and pipes, which rely on slow movements and tricks to manage dangers rather than defeating them

Weak Versus...

• Strong Free Peoples, which will make meeting the conditions for using this card difficult
• Condition discarding after the Fellowship Phase

Example Decks

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