Data:Gimli, Dwarf of the Mountain-race (2P121)/Collection
 Valley of the Silverlode (2U120)
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As a card from the Mines of Moria set, Data:Gimli, Dwarf of the Mountain-race (2P121) was primarily gained through [standard booster packs | as a card in the XXX starter deck | direct purchase from the XXX product | explanation of promotional distribution], or sometimes as [a random rare in a starter deck]. It is a [brief description of usage], so its demand is [enormous | relatively high | average | relatively low | nonexistent].
- As a Premium card, Dwarf of the Mountain-race had 2 copies included in the associated MoM starter deck. Foil version of the card were also distributed in booster packs as Uncommons.
- Foil versions of Movie-era Uncommon cards were randomly selected to be inserted into booster packs at a rate of 1 out of 18 packs (~5.5% of packs). This means any given MoM booster pack had a 1 in 2,128 (~0.14%) chance of containing a foil Dwarf of the Mountain-race.
- Mines of Moria was printed (both standard and foil) in 5 languages other than English: German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish.
All known card variants (including those listed above) are below:
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English • Nonfoil | Gimli is an odd duck. Rather uniquely among the rest of the cards on this list, he isn’t a problem in FOTR in the slightest. We can of course argue whether the same is true for these other cards, but you can’t deny that most of them have at least been complained about quite loudly and often; the same is not true for Gimli.
Since he is a problem primarily in the post-Shadows world of site manipulation, we are left with reducing his choke impact and granting him an additional bonus to compensate. (It's probably a moot point anyway, since if you're playing Dwarves that means Bearer of Grudges, but let no one say we didn't at least take Decipher at their word.) Decipher Notes: Dwarves as a culture have never excelled at keeping site Shadow numbers low and “choking” off the twilight pool. Gimli was a fun anomaly for the Fellowship block, where the number and placement of underground sites was known and limited. Those same boundaries held true on the Tower and King site paths. But with Shadows, all that is changing. Shadows has a big focus on what design and development call "terrain" – that is, whether a site is a battleground, forest, mountain, river, or any of the other similar types of keywords. Terrain is so important with the new adventure path that in playtesting, players were frequently bidding to go second, and "pathfinding" (selection of the next site by the Free Peoples player) was valued as it has never been before. If a player wants to run an adventure path of nothing but one type of terrain, that may well be possible – if not with Shadows, then likely once Black Rider and Bloodlines are added to the mix. In short, having a single, easy-to-start card (one with out-of-culture gameplay, at that) which could potentially deny 2 twilight tokens at every single site simply proved too strong. |
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German • Nonfoil | |
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German • Foil | |
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French • Nonfoil | |
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French • Foil | |
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Italian • Nonfoil | |
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Italian • Foil | |
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Spanish • Nonfoil | |
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Spanish • Foil | |
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Polish • Nonfoil | |
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Polish • Foil |
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