Re: Galadriel Lady Redeemed in Movie Block

[Pepin The Breve]

Banning Galadriel damages the diversity. Gandalf is not too powerful, and Castamir is strong, but he is necessary.

Why not banning Frodo? He has 10 Resistance! - just kidding. Its ridiculous talking about banning Galadriel. it is a challenge for a small spectrum of deck types. Yes, but that is all.

Not banning Galadriel damages the culture balance and allow too powerful combos. What is teh only thing elves doesn't do without other culture support? Possession discard. Lady Redeemed allow them to do so in a pretty easy and almost unlimited way, i chalenge someone to show me a more reliable way to discard shadow possessions. She also allow discard condition and she does both without the need of specific cards to do so. You can use that pump you didnt need to choose with thing you like most at a given time. So essencialy she turns a "one effect event" in a "triple effect event" and she does so at Fellowship or Regroup phase, so doesn't matter if the shadow player don't play minions at all cause that will not prevent his/her stuff of being discarded while cycling freeps hand. She cost 0   in starting fellowship.

But what annoys me the most is the ability that she give to turn very meta specific events like Stand Against Darkness, Curse Their Foul Feet! and Foul Creation into Very useful events, i.e. discard a condition or a possession.

For me Lady redeemed is the most huge mistake Decipher ever printed cause she is not banned for being part of a loop or something, only cause she is broken BY HERSELF. And the funny part is that she does all that stuff while making her best friend Cirdan more and more happy...

So a good deck with Lady Redeemed is unbeatable? Of course not, no deck is unbeatable, but she is far from being balanced cause she allows to make a deck that ruins the fun of 90% of the shadows.