Besieger
Besieger is an unloaded keyword appearing on Minions from the Sauron culture. Besieger cards are generally focused on affecting Engines, controlling sites, and stacking besieger minions on controlled sites.
Besiegers are a common Shadow deck in King Block and Movie Block. Generally, the deck seeks to set up a support area full of engine conditions, and uses them to buff besieger orc minions with cards like Great Siege-towers (7U281)
and Tower Walkway (7C315)
and/or get significant twilight cost discounts on besieger troll minions like Troll of Gorgoroth, Abomination of Sauron (8R108)
. Different versions of the deck may place more or less emphasis on site control. The deck generally plays few if any non-besieger minions.
List of Cards with the Besieger Keyword[edit]
Portrait | Card Name | Culture | Card Type | Game Text |
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Gorgoroth Attacker (7U270)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
When you play this minion from a site you control, add a burden for each site you control. | ||
Gorgoroth Axeman (7U271)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Skirmish: Discard this minion to make a | ||
Gorgoroth Engineer (7U272)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
When you play this minion from a site you control, add 2 threats. | ||
Gorgoroth Garrison (7C273)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Regroup: Discard 2 cards from hand to stack a | ||
Gorgoroth Officer (7R274)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Skirmish: Discard 2 cards from hand to play a | ||
Gorgoroth Pillager (7C275)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
While this minion is stacked on a site you control, besiegers are fierce. | ||
Gorgoroth Ransacker (7C276)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Skirmish: If this minion is stacked on a site you control, discard him to make a | ||
Gorgoroth Sapper (7C277)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Shadow: Discard 2 cards from hand to play a | ||
Gorgoroth Soldier (7U278)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Response: If a besieger is about to take a wound, discard 2 cards from hand to prevent it. | ||
Gorgoroth Troop (7R279)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Skirmish: Stack a besieger on a site you control to make Gorgoroth Troop strength +2. | ||
Siege Commander (7R311)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Skirmish: Discard 2 cards from hand to make a besieger fierce until the regroup phase. | ||
Gorgoroth Agitator (8U94)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
When you play this minion, if you can spot another besieger, you may add a threat for each companion over 4. Shadow: Remove a threat to play a | ||
Gorgoroth Assassin (8R95)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Assignment: Spot a | ||
Gorgoroth Berserker (8R96)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger. Enduring.
Maneuver: If you have initiative, exert Gorgoroth Berserker twice to take control a site. Maneuver: Remove a threat and exert Gorgoroth Berserker twice to take control a site. | ||
Gorgoroth Breaker (8U97)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Archery: Exert this minion or stack it on a site you control to make the fellowship archery total –2. | ||
Gorgoroth Looter (8U98)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
When you play this minion, you may remove a burden to play a besieger stacked on a site. | ||
Gorgoroth Patrol (8U99)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Regroup: If this minion is stacked on a site you control, discard this minion to make the move limit for this turn –1. | ||
Gorgoroth Servitor (8U100)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Archery: Return this minion to your hand to make the fellowship archery total –2 and prevent the Free Peoples player from using archery special abilities. | ||
Gorgoroth Stormer (8C101)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Shadow: If you have initiative, exert this minion to add a burden and make the Free Peoples player draw a card. | ||
Great Hill Troll (8C102)
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Minion • Troll | Besieger. Fierce.
The twilight cost of this minion is –1 for each When you play this minion at sites 5 | ||
Olog-hai of Mordor (8R105)
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Minion • Troll | Besieger. Fierce.
The twilight cost of this minion is –2 for each Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may play a besieger stacked on a site you control. That besieger is fierce and damage +1 until the regroup phase. | ||
Siege Troop (8C106)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
Regroup: Exert this minion twice to take control of a site. | ||
Troll of Gorgoroth, Abomination of Sauron (8R108)
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Minion • Troll | Besieger. Fierce.
The twilight cost of this minion is –2 for each Regroup: Exert Troll of Gorgoroth to stack a besieger on a site you control. | ||
Gorgoroth Keeper (10C86)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger. While you control a site, this minion's twilight cost is –2.
Regroup: Stack this minion on a site you control. | ||
Gorgoroth Swarm (10C87)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
When you play this minion, you may spot another besieger and 6 companions to play a besieger from your discard pile and control a site. | ||
Gothmog, Lieutenant of Morgul (10R88)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
When you play Gothmog, the Free Peoples player must wound a companion for each site you control. While you control a site, Gothmog is fierce. | ||
Mordor Pillager (10U92)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger. Fierce.
Shadow: Exert this minion and spot another | ||
Morgul Patrol (0D24)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger. Tracker. The site number of each [SAURON] Orc is -3. Response: If Morgul Patrol wins a skirmish, exert it to make it fierce until the regroup phase. Skirmish: Exert Morgul Patrol to wound a character it is skirmishing. Regroup: Exert Morgul Patrol to make the Free Peoples player exert X companions, where X is the number of burdens you can spot. | ||
Gorgoroth Swarm (0W28)
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Minion • Orc | Besieger.
When you play this minion, you may spot another besieger and 6 companions to play a besieger from your discard pile and control a site. |
List of Cards that Interact with the Besieger Keyword[edit]
Portrait | Card Name | Culture | Card Type | Game Text |
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Din of Arms (7R267)
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Event • Maneuver | Choose an opponent to discard the top card of his or her draw deck. If the twilight cost of that card is less than the number of besiegers you spot, take control of a site and all besiegers are strength +3 until the regroup phase. | ||
Encirclement (7R268)
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Condition • Support Area | For each 2 sites you control, the twilight cost of each of your Regroup: Spot a | ||
Great Peril of Fire (7U280)
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Condition • Support Area | To play, spot a besieger or a site you control.
Maneuver: Discard an engine to discard a condition from the Free Peoples support area. | ||
Great Siege-towers (7U281)
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Condition • Support Area | Engine.
Shadow: Play a besieger to place a Skirmish: Remove a | ||
Tower Walkway (7C315)
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Condition • Support Area | Engine. To play, spot a Each besieger is strength +1 for each site you control. Regroup: Discard 3 Discard this condition. | ||
Troop Tower (7R316)
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Condition • Support Area | Engine. To play, spot a All Regroup: Discard a besieger to take control of a site. Discard this condition. |
Unloaded Keywords | ||
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Race | Decipher | [Raceless] • Balrog • Creature • Dwarf • Elf • Ent • Half-troll • Hobbit • Maia • Man • Nazgûl • Orc • Spider • Tree • Troll • Uruk-hai • Wizard • Wraith |
Player's Council | Crow • Eagle | |
Hobbit Draft Game | Bird • Dragon • Eagle • Giant • Goblin | |
Site | ||
Decipher | Battleground • Dwelling • Forest • Marsh • Mountain • Plains • River • Underground | |
General | Decipher | Besieger • Corsair • Easterling • Engine • Fellowship • Fortification • Knight • Machine • Pipeweed • Ranger • Ring-bound • Search • Southron • Spell • Stealth • Tale • Tentacle • Tracker • Twilight • [Unbound] • Valiant • Villager • Weather • Warg-rider |
Player's Council | Pony | |
Hobbit Draft Game | Burglar • Cunning • Wise |