The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Two-Player Limited Edition Starter

2018
Caleb Grace, Nate French
BGG Geek Rating
5.6
based on 56 ratings
BGG Average Rating
8.5
community average
BGG Ranking
#11394
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Players
1-2
Weight
3.00/5.00

⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

Variable Player Powers Cooperative Game Hand Management

📂 Categories

Novel-based Adventure Card Game Fantasy Novel-based Collectible Components

🎨 Artists

Adam Lane Aleksander Karcz Alexander Kozachenko Alexandr Shaldin Alexandru Sabo Allen Douglas Amanda Sartor Andrew Ryan Angela Sung Anna Mohrbacher Arden Beckwith Ben Zweifel Beth Sobel Blake Henriksen Carmen Cianelli Carolina Eade Christine Griffin Cristi Balanescu Daarken Daryl Mandryk David Auden Nash David Lecossu Diego Gisbert Llorens Drazenka Kimpel Igor Kieryluk Ilich Henriquez Jarreau Wimberly Jason Jenicke Jeff Himmelman Jeff Lee Johnson Jen Zee John Howe John Stanko Jokubas Uogintas Jose Vega Katherine Dinger Kaya Leanna Crossan Lin Bo Lius Lasahido Lucas Graciano Magali Villeneuve Marcia George-Bogdan Marius Bota Mark Winters Matt Stewart Matthew Cowdery Michael Rasmussen Nicholas Gregory Rafał Hrynkiewicz Rick Hershey Ryan Barger Sam Lamont Sandara Tang Sara Betsy Sara Biddle Sara Diesel Scott Nicely Sebastian Giacobino Smirtouille Stanislav Dikolenko Stu Barnes Stéphane Gantiez Timo Karhula Tiziano Baracchi Winona Nelson Łukasz Jaskólski

🏢 Publishers

Fantasy Flight Games

📖 About This Game

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a cooperative game for 1 or 2 players where each player controls a band of adventurers who are attempting to complete dangerous quests in Middle-Earth. The players must work together in order to defeat scenarios controlled by the game. With the addition of a copy of the core set, up to 4 players can play cooperatively. As a Living Card Game, additional cards and quests are available in regular expansions, allowing players to customize the contents of this set or to create their own original decks. This Two-Player Limited Edition Starter Box comes with two pre-built player decks constructed from previously released cards but with two new heroes and all new graphic design! Also included in this box are two unique scenarios and the threat trackers and tokens required to play them. —description from the publisher The scenarios included in this set were rereleased as The Dark of Mirkwood scenario pack.