Lord of the Rings: The Card Game Gameplay || Passage through Mirkwood 

Hope you enjoy our first playthrough of the Lord of the Rings: The Card Game! We had a blast playing the game, and are super excited to dig deeper into the game!

Nice video, guys! It's always a joy to see people experiencing this great game. Here are a handful of clarifications that I noticed needed pointing out: 1. First and foremost, Glorfindel is is a male. In fact, he is arguably the most powerful elf in Middle Earth at the time of LotR (not that being male has anything to do with it). 2. Legolas' ability - progress must be added to an active location first, if there is an active location. It does not go straight to the quest. 3. Round 2, Thalin and the Dol Guldur Orcs - during the Travel Phase, you had to reveal a card due to the Location card's travel effect. At this point Thalin is no longer questing, so his ability does not trigger. Similarly, nobody is questing, so Dol Guldur Orcs' ability whiffs. 4. Shadow card action window - you were debating on healing before revealing the shadow card, and if there was an action window. There is indeed an action window between "reveal AND resolve shadow card effect", and "calculate AND deal damage." So, you could reveal the shadow, decide if you need to heal, and then deal damage. If the shadow card said to "deal X damage to defending player" or something like that, then there would not be any action window because you must reveal AND resolve the effect (you could still play a response though). 5. Protector of Lorien - there is an action window AFTER revealing Encounter cards, and BEFORE calculating quest success/failure. You can use this window to activate P of L at this time if you wanted. Same applies to defending and deciding if you need the extra defense after revealing the Shadow card. 6. Hand size - there is no limit. You can have your entire deck in your hand (some decks are designed to do this). 7. Reveal vs Add - When you got to Quest card 3, you were instructed to "ADD" the cards to the staging area. In this case, they were added directly from the deck, and not revealed, so any "When Revealed" effects do not trigger. 8. Cards in play - Cards in the staging area, active location, active quest card, and any cards engaged with you are all considered in play. So you could have used Gandalf at your first opportunity. 9. Enemy cards are NOT characters. Characters are specifically Allies or Heroes. So you would not get a resource from Horn of Gondor for destroyed enemies. 10. Optional engagement - each player can only optionally engage ONE enemy. After that, enemies start engaging players starting with the highest engagement cost enemy and the first player. 11. You are correct, you do not control condition attachments.

Great Video! I think the progress tokens should be placed on the active location first when Legolas’s response was activated. The role book says the active location has the highest priority.

A little late to this (and to learning LoTR LCG), but wanted y'all to know that I loved the production quality here! Especially showing the cards in the bottom left there -- SUPER helpful! I'm looking forward to y'alls next videos.

The camera was so good in this video. Very clear how to do setup and stuff. Also, great vibes! Well done with this!

Great playthrough guys! I like how you show the cards similar to the Team Covenant in their videos! I hope you keep playing this amazing LCG

Nice video! The game is great! A side note Glorfindel is a male elf, and legendary warrior. He will most likely appear in the upcoming rings of power tv show.

One of the hero dwarf, I think Gimli, when he suffers damage you can take one coin for every damage. You forgot to take that

Really nice set up! Good production, super clean. I love the game mat.

If there is an active location, any game effect or ability that places progress tokens on the current quest places progress on the active location instead, up to the value of the locations quest points.

That was a super fun to watch u fellas, I thought I was just gonna come for the rules but I binged

If I am correct when you explored a location, any excess travel tokens can be placed on the current quest. (!) 😮 very important if that’s the case!!!

I LOVE THIS GAME. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I love this game. This is the first card game I bought (revised core) and it got me into the hobby. Glad you guys got it to your table and I hope to see it there again! (FYI, Glorfindel is a guy lol)

Thanks for the upload. What brand of shelf is that in the back? Looks nice. Glorfindel is a male, btw.

Glorfindel is a male elf btw.

Thanks guys :)

What happens when we have all the heroes committed to travel and two enemies attacking? How does combat work? I can't defend, do the heroes still incur damage?

Glorfindel was a male elf.

Any future LOTR LCG videos planned?

for the choosing the spiders part 1:10:46 , what would happen if you just chose 2 forest spiders and then Ungoliant's spawn comes out as a shadow. does that count as beating it?

Hello - Question if you don’t mind - If you travel to a location and you don’t resolve it that round, are you able to travel to that location next round? My gut instinct tells me yes.

Hello, i am new to this game. I just saw your video and it helped a lot for many questions i had. I noticed a mistake but i am not sure. In round 1 at 25:48 i think he cannot use Thalin for defence because he committed him in the begining for the quest so he is exhausted. Right?

Is it player 1 that is always engaged when there is a mandatory engage?

Every card openly on the table is considered "in play"

Please do more Lord of the Rings lcg content

Why send a healer in?!

Glorfindel is male guys XD. Regardless, great video

I stop watching when you refer to Glorfindel as a her! The guy took on a Balrog 1v1 on top of a mountain! Jk of course good video

No more LotR?