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On the surface, this card looks as if it has limited uses, and penalties besides. Well, don't dismiss that hunch; you're mostly right. As a hero player, usually you have your ranger characters starting in the opening company.

The +2 prowess vs all attacks keyed to Wilderness is ok, but not overwhelming. Most Wilderness creatures that you have to really worry about are way too fat too be bothered by a +2. If only it were +5.

At Ruins and Lairs it's probably a little better. This bonus applies only if you are are AT a Ruins & Lairs, and affects all types of combat: from Company vs Company Combat to Automatic-Attacks. This can be a handy bit of support for those tough times when combat looks grim and you didn't pull a Risky Blow.

If only you didn't have to discard the character. That's the tough part. That and it's only a short-event. I wouldn't mind discarding the character if it were a permanent-event. There are other cards in the MEAS in which character & allies come out of your hand to help, but the other two (Come at Need, Ride Against the Enemy) are hazards, and can possibly hurt your opponent.

Drughu is one of those "Almost-But-Not-Quite" cards. It could have been a decent card, but the penalties way offset the bonuses. It's only playable during your own organization phase. What if your oppenent decides not to play a creature keyed to wilderness? And what if the minion player cancels the attack against him you had in mind (company vs company)? Wasted ranger. And what if you do get to use the bonus, but a character dies anyway? You've wasted a ranger character you could have played the following turn to replace the now dead character. It just isn't good card management. This card would have been much better if it had been something like:

"Permanent-event: Playable on a hero company during your organization phase if you remove from the game a ranger character from your hand. All characters in the company receive +2 prowess against attacks keyed to Wilderness and during combat at Ruins & Lairs. Cannot be duplicated on a given company. Discard Drughu when any play deck is exhausted or your opponent plays the same ranger character."

That, I think, would have made a much more playable card.

So unless you just have a plethora of ranger characters coming out of the ying yang, and are just dying to try out every new card, put a few Risky Blows in your deck instead...

Radagast

Original card review taken from : http://fan.theonering.net/morgulrats/
With the authorization of the webmaster.

The reviewing team consisted of Gwaihir (Chris Farrell), Gimli (Nathan Bruinooge), Ohtar (Charles E. Bouldin, Esq.), Radagast (James Kight), Joshua B. Grace (Beorn), Martijn Steultjens (Fram Frumgarson), Jason Klank (Saruman) and Jeffery Dobberpuhl (Wormtongue)