How to Play LORD OF THE RINGS TCG in 2023!
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Welcome to our first Lord of the Rings: Trading Card Game video as we show you how to play this discontinued game with relative ease.
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So come on share those memories of playing the game back in the day, or feel free to lament that you missed out the first time but are excited to try it for the first time 😉
What an excellent pitch! We're particularly tickled to see the usage of so many of the tools we've developed, especially the wiki.
Fun fact, there is now a Digital Library feature in the Gemp deckbuilder (look for the little book-with-bookmark icon) which includes a range of pre-built decks to get going with, including all the official Starter decks and as many Worlds Championship decklists as we could get our hands on.
Great work! Looking forward to any more content you may have in the future. :)
Thank you I'm glad you enjoyed it, well hard work deserves some recognition 😉 I think when I dusted off my collection from the loft during the pandemic the wiki was the first thing I encountered and I see you haven't been twiddling you thumbs between then and now so kudos.
Thats good news on the digital library, the more precons people have available to them reduces that barrier to entry, I know decklists have been a bit all over the place in the past so that great.
First card game ever tried! Even before mtg. Oh boy that game had taken my heart back then and my wallet as well 😅. I remember great times with no net decking just watching at the local stores what the others playing to steal ideas! Still remember my rohan-uruk deck! Nostalgia nostalgia!
Yeah I remember how popular it was, especially around the time of the movie's releases. When you look at some of the old forums you can see how much limited information was out there for a while unless you knew what you were looking for. I'm still a terrible deckbuilder for this game because my instinct is still to build free peoples and shadows parts of the deck as standalone so I can plug and play them, which is obviously the furthest thing from optimal, still it keeps me happy. Nostalgia indeed!
Best tcg ever. Played a four player multiplayer just yesterday, winning with fellowship block Dwarves and Goblin Swarm 😃
Its funny I've never played multiplayer LotR TCG before, do you prefer it to two player?
I just found a collection of cards today at a thrift shop and bought it based on subject matter without knowing how the game actually worked. I am already hooked on the idea of building a collection of these cards and trying to play the game with some friends after watching some videos about it. I definitely plan to specifically be on the lookout for more of the cards at thrift stores, flea markets, garage sales, etc.
Wow, what a great find, I do hope you managed to get the game to the table.
I loved this game, specifically the cards from The Fellowship era. I rocked a Moria swarm deck partnered with my Halfling Heroes. So many awesome memories.
Yeah its hard not to remember the first few sets the most fondly.
Great video. I bought a ton of these a five years ago and taught my sons the game. It was a great renaissance of the game in our family. Years of fun as we kept changing our decks and trying to out strategize each other. We absolutely love this game! It is so great and it was fun knowing we were perhaps the only people playing the game in all the world. Something special. Great great game.
Thanks I'm pleased you enjoyed it. We live in a time where cult of the new has never been more prevalent so to know these amazing and "complete" games are out there and still more than hold their own is a real heartwarmer for me. Thats a lovely story teaching your kids the game, I'm glad you're flying the glad for a brilliant game. There's so much depth here with the combined decks as you say allowing for a great deal of strategy.
BE reassured, you're not only to play this game!
Thank you for sharing. I played back in the day and I will love to teach my 2yo boy in a few years
@@casualmentebiancoblu5040 do it! I got thousands of cards on eBay for a fraction of what it took to collect them the first time. And even just a week ago, my teenage son pulled them out and asked to play. Priceless.
Loved playing this game growing up. I still play it online using the Gemp platform from time to time!
Yeah although I don't play it as much as I like its got such a great hook to it than even in the intervening 20+ years I don't think a game has done something similar.
I've just come into a small collection of these cards, about 1-2 thousand of em, hopefully I have enough to make two balanced decks. Thanks for the video, it helped a lot!
I bought a pack of about 100 for 20 bucks was thinking the same hah!
I'm really pleased it helped, I hope you had some luck with the deckbuilding!
I have one of the starter decks at home, man this game was so fun.
It really really was and because of its age I just respect the hell out of it.
Decipher was my favorite game company that ever existed. They had a penchant for ridiculously overcomplicated rules that somehow still worked perfectly well and made total sense (the closest comparison I can think of is DnD). I got super involved in their final game, Fight Klub, which was sadly what put them under. I have more LotR TCG and Star Trek CCG (another of their incredible games) cards than I know what to do with... and I've never found anyone to play with.
Yeah I was a big fan of Decipher, they were foremost in my mind when it came to CCGs in that period and as an extension to your point they didn't just lazily take advantage of the fact that they had three hugely popular IP's to play with. I remember Fight Klub feeling like the last hurrah, alas I never followed it that much but still bad luck can't rid of us these wonderful games as each have a continuing committee keeping them alive.
@@DicevsCards FK was such an odd duck. I had a strong feeling it was doomed from the start, and it certainly was, but it was still fun to be a part of the ride. I wish there were a way to reprint their old games. Star Trek, Star Wars, LotR, the holy trinity of excellent card games, imho.
I skipped this game when it released despite being a fan of Tolkien’s works, the films and some of Decipher’s previous CCGs. (I already had a small Middle Earth collection at the time and had lots to do in University at the time.)
So naturally 2023 is the best time to start, right after the lock down surge of interest depleted remaining stock and drove prices up! My first cards should arrive this month (March). I ordered a few Two Towers block starter decks, and have a booster box of Fellowship that should arrive in April.
Yeah so many of these dead CCG's saw a resurgence during lockdown. I hope your cards arrived and you enjoyed your first steps in to the game!
yo, i just picked up the mines of moria gandalf starter deck and the two towers aragorn starter deck for 15 bucks, but man, all the rules are overwhelming. What is the best way to learn the rules?
You could definitely try install the tutorial CD that is on the wiki, that might be an easier way to teach yourself. I remember the old small booklets weren't the best that explaining certain phases didn't always took place and the language wasn't great, I'm not sure if the updated comprehensive rules you can find online are any more accessible and easy to understand.
Both of these links can be found here lotrtcgpc.net/newstart.html
Good luck!
or just play the lotr magic set?
Big thanks to DVC for this video, and big thanks to Teltura, creator of the lotr gemp.
You're very welcome and yes the key people behind the wiki and the GEMP version deserves a lot of props.
Want LOTR TGC bring back to shops in 2024 :( so good times
It would certainly shine the spotlight again on such a brilliant game.
@@DicevsCards yes or some beeter remake i watch the new lord of the rings cards and dont much like it this from film was excelent
But how to find good quality cards? i only see lotr tcg wiki cards and theyre not so good quality please help beacuse i want to print some cards
They are there on the Players Council website and in this share files.lotrtcgpc.net/, hope this helps.
@@DicevsCards Thanks!
i'm so angry at the new Magic the Gathering version of Lord of the Rings I might just get into this.
You won't regret it 😉
Wrong title. Should be "how to access the game". Came here to learn how to actually play
Is it playable solo?
There were no official variants for solo play although if you look there are a number of ways people have discussed playing it solo, especially with the decks comprising free peoples and shadows cards.
thank you for this video, I remember playing this game when I was like 13, with my friends, I remember it good fun
You're very welcome, it is such a great game!