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I was excited to try these as my youngest has just gotten some teeth and I'm trying to find snacks that all my kids will enjoy. These were a huge hit. Not only did my toddler ask for more, but my littlest one loved trying her new teeth on these cookies. The best part was, they dissolve quickly and are not nearly as messy as other cookies/biscuits we've tried. We will be absolutely stocking up with more!
Dark Sectors are your best bet for mats farming. Even though both DS nodes on Earth are locked behind the Vay Hek assassination, which needs MR5, if you get taxied to a node on a planet you've unlocked you get that node unlocked after - just get a kind soul to taxi you to one of the Dark Sectors if you can't complete the Oro node for whatever reason.
Plague Star is a recurring event that happens once every 200 or so days, I believe. It's recently finished so it won't happen again for a while, but I find that it's a fantastic way to top off on neurodes due to all of the Infested you need to kill, and you can get a lot of other good stuff from the event (exclusive Zaw parts, cool mods, fully built Forma).
Once you get deeper into the game, other good Neurode farms open up: Eris, the last planet in the system, is overrun by Infestation and drops Neurodes fairly commonly. It has a Dark Sector survival mission. Only problems are it's high level (30-40) content and takes a while to get to. And because you need to complete certain quests before you can get there, you'll already have unlocked Lua.
Lua is, IMO, the best midgame grind for Neurodes. Pick the Survival for extended visits, or Exterminate for quick runs of 1-2 Neurodes. Not only do the enemies have chances to drop the Neurodes, and are slightly lower level than Eris, the special enemies that come in every 5 minutes have a VERY good (like nearly guaranteed) chance to drop a Neurodes, and will also drop rare mods, stances and weapon parts for the War. You can also pick up a special resource from them that you can only get otherwise from Eidolon hunts, so it's useful if you want to craft the Phantasma or Revenant without participating in Eidolon hunts.
High population density is best to maximize your number of chances. I would suggest Everest which is a popular Excavation mission. It also shows up as a Lith fissure relatively often and you'll have a better chance of finding a veteran team that wants to stay and grind it for a while.
Second, how will the designers of the set approach it from a complexity standpoint? On one hand, the imagination runs wild when you start picturing Orcs, Hobbits, and Wizards running around and all the things you could do with it.
On the other hand, part of making a crossover set like this is to have the chance to bring in players that are new or potentially interested in Magic as a game, but haven't actually tried it yet. In cases like this, it's best to lean towards a more straightforward design philosophy that focuses on bringing the flavor of the set to life, and instead leaning on Magic's incredible game engine to do what it does.
When you tune into the Pro Tour The Lord of The Rings in Barcelona for the Draft, you'll see the featured drafter enter a world where black and red are the best colors, white and blue are good support colors, and green (mostly) doesn't exist.
On the Limited Resources podcast, which I do every week with Luis Scott-Vargas, he's fond of saying that balance in a format doesn't necessarily make it fun or interesting, and this set is a prime example of that. Green is as close to unplayable as we've seen, yet the format still produces enough archetypes to draft while also keeping the gameplay fun, interesting, and complex.
Both black and red are top tier, with black being the best color in the format. A super strong lineup of commons is complimented by even stronger uncommons, rares, and mythic rares. You can pair black with any other color (even green if you have to) and expect to have a good win percentage.
Red-black is the best deck in the format, featuring excellent removal and efficient creatures that all seem to work well together. If a player at the Pro Tour could choose their color pair, it would likely be black-red.
You can use this in a deck built around ring tempting, or in a deck that cares about either casting instants or sorceries, or having them in the graveyard. It has such a low floor, people will play basically as many Birthday Escapes as they get in any blue deck.
Green-white Food, green-blue scry Elves, and blue-white draw-two are on the chopping block for this set. The themes are there, and it is possible to draft effective versions of these decks, but the tax of them having green cards in them has proven too strong. Avoid them if possible!
The early challenge when it came to assessing Tempted by the Ring was figuring out what a Ring tempt was "worth". Usually this is done by figuring out if it was worth a full extra card or some percentage of a card.
This can get granular, and the answer for each of those scenarios is: It's not quite worth a full card, but it's definitely worth something. (For the record, getting a 1/1 flyer is about as close to a card as you'll get)
The fourth Ring tempt is another inflection point similar to the second one. This can end a game very quickly and you can often use what would normally be a creature that wasn't relevant any more (like a random 1/1) to do it.
I love amass Orcs, and it's a heavily pushed mechanic in the set, with a full twenty-five cards featuring it. It's super simple, but very powerful as it actively adds to your board every time you cast as spell that has it, even if that spell isn't a creature. In modern era Limited, being on board is everything and amass Orcs lets you do that while countering spells, drawing cards, taking cards out of their hand, or even messing with the opposing creatures.
To bring the evaluation back to the method we used before, amass Orcs 2 is basically worth a card. The cool part about amass is that you don't have to build around it if you want, and there is virtually no setup cost at all. Just cast the spells you were going to cast anyway and build that army up.
I always like to call out the best possible card to open in each set so that when you watch the Pro Tour broadcast you'll know what the featured player is really, really hoping to open. And this set there is a clear winner, but there's also a twist:
Orcish Bowmasters is definitely the card you want to see when you open your pack. It can be a three-for-one the turn you cast it and it's really annoying to have on the battlefield after that, and all for just two mana.
The interesting thing is that the two mana has black mana in it. On one hand it's the best color, so yay. But on the other hand there are two cards that are almost as good as the Bowmasters but are colorless.
Horn of Gondor is one of those cards that looks like it might be fragile or not work every time (after all, if they kill your humans, it doesn't do anything, right?), but in practice that never seems to be the case. You really only need the one Human to get the horn sounding again, and it turns out doubling makes numbers go up really fast. Who knew?
In a large saute pan or Dutch oven, cook 2 pounds lean ground beef over medium-high heat until it is no longer pink. Transfer the meat to a bowl. Drain the excess fat from the skillet, but do not clean it out.
Add the chopped onions, green bell pepper, garlic, parsley and jalapeo peppers (if using) and saut veggies over medium heat, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until the onions are soft and fragrant (about 5 minutes total time).
Remove the pan from the heat and add the chili seasoning ingredients to the beef mixture: 3 tablespoons chili powder, 2 teaspoons cumin, sugar, oregano, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Stir until combined.
Add the tomato juice (replace a portion of the juice with 2-3 cups beef broth or beef stock to add a kick of flavor, if desired), diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, kidney beans and pinto beans to either the skillet or crock pot, depending on which you are using.
I have been using this recipe for the last 7 years and I will never use another. This is always a hit at potlucks and family gatherings. I made it for a guy one time, and he bought a crockpot so I could make a whole batch just for him. This is my go-to recipe and it is always a hit. ?