Newbie Trap

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A newbie trap is an informal game term. A newbie trap is a strategy, option, or card that appears attractive (particularly to new players) but is actually terrible. A hypothetical example might be a card that says, "If your opponent plays a character named Roger, Jim, or John, they lose the game immediately." Winning instantly is a powerful effect, but a new player might not recognize that LOTR TCG doesn't have any characters named Roger, Jim, or John. A strategy that is deceptively weak, deceptively complicated, easy to screw up, or just infamously unsuccessful could be described as a newbie trap.

Moria Tentacles and Gondor Wraiths are somewhat infamous for being newbie traps, although they have occasionally been used successfully.

Newbie traps are an example of a negative play experience. Fixing newbie traps is one of the main goals of the PC Errata project.

Gameplay
Game Setup Starting Fellowship • Bidding • Mulligan
Deck Building Considerations Uniqueness • X-List • R-List • Errata • Format • Multipath
General Strategies Beatdown • Bomb • Corruption • Hand Extension • Run/Stop • Skirmish Cancellation • Swarm • Win Condition • Wound Prevention • Wounding
Deck Archetypes Auto-Corruption Bomb • Beasterlings • Berserkers • Bouncing Hobbits • Elvents • Forestguls • Hobbit Hospital • Fruit Loops • Gondor Knights • Gondor Rangers • Gondor Wraiths • Moria Archery • Moria Beatdown • Moria Navy • Moria Swarm • Moria Tentacles • Nazgul Beatdown • Ninja Gollum • Orc Corruption • Rainbow Wounding • Sauron Grind • Sauron Initiative • Sauron Roaming • Sauron Threats • Solo Smeagol • Southron Archery • Southron Initiative • Stupid Swarm • Super Friends • Telepathy • Threatguls • Token Tanks • Troll Swarm • Uruk Archery • Uruk Machines • Uruk Trackers • Warg Super Swarm
Rules Rule of 4 • Rule of 9
Mechanics Bear • Discard • Draw Deck • Exert • Exhausted • Fellowship • Initiative • In Play/Leave Play • Move Limit • Reconcile • Roaming • Site Control • Spot • Stack • Support Area • Threats
Gameplay Terms Boat • Body • Broken/NPE/OP • Buff/Nerf • Choke • Combo • Cultural Enforcement • Cycling • Dead Draw • Fetch • Filter • Flood • Grind • Hand Clog • Hate • Interaction • Item • Loop • Matchup • Meta • Mill • Newbie Trap • Pile • Power Creep • Pump • Rainbow • Recursion • Removal • Resource • Rogue • Rule of 6 • Side • Site Manipulation • Speed Bump • Splash • Subculture • Tank • Other Terms
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