The thing I personally like about Nightmare Mode is the fact that all the cards are built specifically for that quest, making it more thematic and epic, which as a Lord of the Rings geek makes it a lot more fun for me. But the sailing was easy since I had the right deck, with plenty of allies to swarm the board and sail with, but I used several expansions to make it all Rohan to get Theoden’s cost reduction. For example, for the Grey Havens Nightmare Mode, I had enough cards to make a Rohan Ally Swam deck that I almost won with, until my ships were brought down to 1 hit point on the last stage, and I lost. You will need plenty of good cards from good expansions to make sure you can handle certain quests. If you have just a few expansions and enough cards to make a few decks, that might not be enough. In fact, I find it a little easy, but it is great for testing new decks as there are very little specific things to watch out for, like where more quests focus on unique mechanics that require a specific deck to beat.Īnother point I should make is don’t attempt nightmare mode until you have a lot of player cards. The deck makes the tutorial more of an average quest, where you can test decks such as traps, themed decks, weird combos or whatever. That aside though, Passage Through Mirkwood is worth it. I’ve seen some on Amazon and my local store only carries regular decks, so if you get them you may have to wait a while and pay a little bit more for shipping. I think I’ll address the first problem here though and say that these decks are usually only on the official website. I’m nowhere as experienced as these other authors here to do in-depth scenario analysis, especially on nightmare mode, but I can say that these decks are recommended for a certain few. But maybe not start with the Grey Havens.
If you are wondering whether to pick up these expansions, that’s why I made this article. I decided to pick up the Passage through Mirkwood expansion and the first three Grey Havens expansions since that’s when I got back into the game after a hiatus.
Then the entire game you usually hope to reveal normal mode cards, and if you reveal a nightmare mode card you usually die instantly (especially the shadow effects). Some even come with special cards such as the Grey Havens quest Voyage Across Belegaer, which added two new nightmare stages to the quest, making it longer and harder. Then it has some instructions on which cards to remove from the deck (which are usually the easy ones you hope to reveal in normal mode), then replace them with all the nightmare mode cards.
Basically, it comes with about twenty to thirty cards for each quest, so if you get one of the deluxe ones it will have around ninety cards for all three quests. Now for those who don’t know exactly how the Nightmare decks work, I’ll explain it briefly. It is more of a well-rounded nightmare perfect for testing new decks, and the cards that are included in nightmare mode aren’t too bad, but still challenging enough to make you lose a few times with good decks. I only have four nightmare decks and am already on the fence about picking up more, but everyone agrees that the best one by far is Passage Through Mirkwood.
Just kidding, it is near impossible! Some of the decks like Passage Through Mirkwood fit that description, but others simply make me wonder why someone would invent this. Nightmare Mode is a fun, more challenging, and thematic mode.
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