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Folco Boffin
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Type: Hero Sphere: Lore Threat Threshold: 7 Willpower: 2 Attack: 2 Defense: 0 Hit Points: 2 Hobbit. -1 threat cost for each Hobbit hero you control. Action: Discard Folco Boffin to reduce your threat by 7. (Limit once per game.) ...he had a good many friends, especially among the younger Hobbits (mostly descendants of the Old Took)... -The Fellowship of the Ring Set: The Dungeons of Cirith Gurat Number: 109 Quantity: 1 Illustrator: Owen William Weber |
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4 Comments
An interesting hero. Can easily be included in most secrecy or "two hero" decks. Start with three heros (Hobbits, most likely), until you pull Resourceful and/or Strider, take advantage of Folco's (third) resource(s), and then ditch him to gain A) gain a much lower threat (Lore, none the less!),
open the way for the above cards, and C) ensure Secrecy for some time. Not much setup either to make it work, either!
It's a good card, but I'd like to see a few more secrecy cards for him. As-is he's interesting but I think there are usually better choices. But I guess if you're going Hobbit Secrecy he's better than Lore Pippin in most cases.
This guy is basically an auto-include in most previously two-hero decks (except eg Loragorn ones). You can use him the first turn to pay for Strider (or any other Lore/Neutral card), then discard him, to be 1 resource and 1 threat better off than if you hadn't included him at all. And if you didn't draw any secrecy/two-hero cards in your opening hand then he can stick around for an extra turn or two as a much needed boost. Should make all such decks a little faster and a little more reliable.
It's a shame I am playing through the Saga's at the moment or I would be prepping one right now (he is clearly not a Saga hero, due to its must-live-to-reuse constraint).
I like how he's not useless even if you happen to miss pulling a Strider. Pondering the idea of running a SotS Hobbit themed deck with Sam and Tom Cotton, with Sam being the Strider target, rallying hobbits and working hard just as he did in the book. Should be both thematically and functionally appealing.