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The entire culture is one culture, but the way it's split into three means that most decks pick a [[subculture]] and stick with it, only using cards from other subcultures to supplement their strategy. In this way, {{C|Raider}} culture resembles {{C|Isengard}}, although the [[Cultural Enforcement|subcultural enforcement]] isn't nearly so strong. Part of the looseness of this subcultural enforcement is that some cards are weakly aligned with one subfaction or another. A card like {{Card|Discovered}} meshes well with the Easterling plan of placing and [[spot]]ting [[burden]]s, but it's a useful tool for all three subcultures. | The entire culture is one culture, but the way it's split into three means that most decks pick a [[subculture]] and stick with it, only using cards from other subcultures to supplement their strategy. In this way, {{C|Raider}} culture resembles {{C|Isengard}}, although the [[Cultural Enforcement|subcultural enforcement]] isn't nearly so strong. Part of the looseness of this subcultural enforcement is that some cards are weakly aligned with one subfaction or another. A card like {{Card|Discovered}} meshes well with the Easterling plan of placing and [[spot]]ting [[burden]]s, but it's a useful tool for all three subcultures. | ||
{{C|Raider}}s have powerful but generally expensive [[event]] cards. | {{C|Raider}}s have powerful but generally expensive [[event]] cards. Case in point, {{Card|Discovered}} is a staple of {{Card|Raider}} decks. That isn't as memorable as the flashy, expensive, and risky cards to unexpectedly remove troublesome companions: {{Card|Whirling Strike}}, {{Card|Red Wrath}}, and {{Card|Fierce in Despair}}. In theory, these three cards are meant to enable a strategy where you use the Southron signature keyword [[Ambush]] to pay for these powerful events, but the most popular Ambush card isn't an Southron card anyway! In practice, they're mostly used to soak up extra twilight from an opponent who has [[flood]]ed, which is common in [[Movie Block]]. This predilection for expensive events also extends to many of their more mundane effects: non-Corsair subcultures have relatively overpriced [[pump]] events, {{Card|On the March}} and {{Card|New Strength Came Now}}. These are rarely played; instead, players tend to use the many {{C|Raider}} utility [[condition]]s like {{Card|Under Foot}}, {{Card|Small Hope}}, and {{Card|Field of the Fallen}} that have pump effects attached to their main effect. | ||
Speaking of which, {{C|Raider}}s have powerful support area cards to enable [[cycling]]. {{Card|Under Foot}} is a keystone of [[swarm]]ing strategies (often multicultural or [[rainbow]] strategies like [[Moria Navy]] or [[Stupid Swarm]]). {{Card|Ships of Great Draught}} not only allows you to never have to worry about a [[Hand Clog|hand clogged]] with Shadow cards, but also lets you retrieve a situational card or play a particularly troublesome card over and over again. With the addition of {{Card|Corsair War Galley}}, this can also give you a near-continuous hold on [[Initiative]], needed to enable certain Southron and Corsair strategies. | Speaking of which, {{C|Raider}}s have powerful support area cards to enable [[cycling]]. {{Card|Under Foot}} is a keystone of [[swarm]]ing strategies (often multicultural or [[rainbow]] strategies like [[Moria Navy]] or [[Stupid Swarm]]). {{Card|Ships of Great Draught}} not only allows you to never have to worry about a [[Hand Clog|hand clogged]] with Shadow cards, but also lets you retrieve a situational card or play a particularly troublesome card over and over again. With the addition of {{Card|Corsair War Galley}}, this can also give you a near-continuous hold on [[Initiative]], needed to enable certain Southron and Corsair strategies. |