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Draw Deck

Each player must start the game with a draw deck of at least 60 cards composed of an equal number of Free Peoples cards and Shadow cards, shuffled together. You may not have copies of The One Ring or any sites in your draw deck. Your starting companions are counted towards the number of Free Peoples cards in your draw deck, but Frodo and The One Ring are not.

You may have up to four copies of each card title (ignoring subtitles) in your draw deck. For example, you may have four copies of Aragorn, King in Exile in your draw deck, or you may have two copies of that card and two copies of Aragorn, Ranger of the North. You may not have four copies of each of those cards, since they have the same title, even though they have different subtitles.

Exception: Since one copy of Frodo is always part of your starting fellowship, you may have only three copies of Frodo in your draw deck.

When you draw the last card from your draw deck, you don't lose the game. Continue with the cards you have in hand and in play. Do not reshuffle your discard pile to make a new draw deck. (You reshuffle your draw deck only when playing with a starter deck and the Starter Rules).