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...ltures are often called "splash" cultures, as many decks run companions or minions from those cultures to supplement a different culture's weaknesses. ...almost entirely of splash minions, and has many of the most popular splash minions of [[Movie Block]]. ...

...ing [[Engine]]s, [[Site Control|controlling sites]], and stacking besieger minions on controlled sites. ...asis on [[site control]]. The deck generally plays few if any non-besieger minions. ...

...ng-bearer]] runs out of protectors, and has to deal with the same powerful minions all on their own. Victory may come through [[wound|wounding]] companions to ...

...minions who are already fierce, it saves having to waste twilight on such minions, which can be a boon. ...

...s are left over can be assigned by the Shadows player, who can stack extra minions wherever they like in the hopes of winning more [[skirmish]]es or [[overwhe The simplest swarm strategy is to play a bunch of minions, then stack all of the extras on the [[Ring-bearer]] in the hopes of overwh ...

...ording to His Stature is a powerful "last defense" against single-vitality minions or even the strongest, exhausted minion. ...s as possible, with the effective skirmish event cleaning up any remaining minions. Additionally, Power According to His Stature works with any ring-bearer, i ...

...e, generally does not play many Twilight Nazgûl, and has stronger swarming minions like {{Card|Morgul Whelp}}. * Pretty much everything. Very cheap, very weak minions like this are only useful in [[swarm]] decks, which generally cannot play t ...

...opponent. Convenient for finishing off weakened minions, or to damage the minions before future phase actions (such as the next turn's maneuver or archery ph ...High King or Aiglos more reliable, along with cards that outright discard minions during the regroup phase (such as Smeagol, Bearer of Great Secrets) or upon ...

...at modifies the order in which skirmishes must be resolved. All non-lurker minions must have their skirmishes resolved before skirmishes involving lurkers may ...t always, have some sort of special ability that can be used to pump other minions up; this keyword thus ensures that they cannot be easily sniped in the firs ...

...Numenor, Valiant Man of the West can potentially help him defeat multiple minions. ...1 wound, and Aragorn can tank multiple uruks, Moria Axe wielders, or even minions like the [[lotr01165|Cave Troll]] and Balrog with very little danger to the ...

...[[archer]] [[minion]]s to [[Grind|grind]] down the [[Fellowship]]. Popular minions include {{Card|Ranged Commander}}, {{Card|Uruk Crossbow Troop}}, {{Card|Uru ...deck first appears in [[Tower Block]] with the addition of the uruk archer minions in [[The Two Towers]], and is most common in [[Tower Block]], [[Towers Stan ...

...y, swarm decks are only called "bomb" decks if they somehow play many more minions in a single turn than is normally possible. ...

...ur assignment phase, you may assign companions to defend against attacking minions. ...ender +2 allows that companion to defend against two additional unassigned minions, and so on. A character with defender +2 (or greater) satisfies any require ...

...n before that minion's skirmish has resolved. It is also effective against minions that tend to exert (Like those in [sauron] wounding decks) since he can eit * Minions with abilities that require exertions ...

...rserkers in the {{C|Isengard}} army assaulting Helm's Deep. Each of these minions gets stronger based on the number of wounds they and their assigned [[Compa ...ss encoded as the [[Enduring]] keyword in later sets, and although various minions named "Berserk" or "Berserker" showed up again, they seldom followed this s ...

...ry of Legolas, Greenleaf and Aragorn's Bow, as these cards can kill archer minions before the archery total is calculated. * Potentially devastating archery effect when combined with archer minions ...

...{Card|Friend to Thorin}} and {{Card|Fror, Gimli's Kinsman}} to beat strong minions without much effort. * Low or middle strength minions ...

...]]s from the {{C|Isengard}} [[culture]]. The keyword only appeared on nine minions in two sets: [[Battle of Helm's Deep]] and [[Ents of Fangorn]]. ...

...ntil his fierce skirmish. Frenzied Dunlending becomes fierce, and valuable minions such as Stampeding Chief become very hard to kill. Be wary of possession di * Companions that can exhaust minions ...

...sts. With this in mind, Uruk Lieutenant is among the most popular Uruk-Hai minions in the Fellowship of the Ring base set. Uruk Lieutenant lacks the cultural enforcement of his mirror minions; Uruk Lieutenant can spot [Sauron] Uruk-Hai or [Uruk-hai] Uruk-Hai as well ...