Pirate Eomer 1.0

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Éomer is the best pirate in middle-earth, or at least the best character who can use a Grappling Hook! You can boost his attack by Spear of the Mark, Dúnedain Mark and Firefoot and keep him back from questing. Then if an enemy shows up you can kill it asap while comiting a lot of extra questpower.

So in a solo game you can basically kill every enemy that shows without engaging it as long as you have enough grappling hooks. So I builded this deck to recycle them as much as possible, using Erebor Hammersmith and Second Breakfast with a lot of card draw. During playtesting I never ran out of Hooks. Normally you should reveal an enemy every third round and you can draw around every 2 rounds into one or a recyling piece.

Éowyn and Bifur are our partners of choice. They give us access to Tactics and Lore, have high questpower and low starting threat. This is helpful because some enemies will be to big to kill in one go so we can let them stay in the staging area and two-shot them. Éowyn can kill everything that still engages us, or we can use a Grappling Hook on her for a big quest push. Bifur helps us to play our Lore questing allies faster, especially in combination with We Are Not Idle.

There might be situations when you have to engage an enemy, for that there are Feints in deck and you have the option of chump blocking, as well as Sneak Attack+Gandalf. Mablung can help return then this enemies to the staging area or you can trample them with Firefoot.

The cards in sideboard can help you to get faster the attack boost on Eomer, but they are dead cards later on, so they should be used for quest were you have to play aggresively.

This deck can't deal with any quests (for example Intruders in Chetwood and Boss fights from the beginning are pretty much impossible and I guess the Ship quests in Dreamchaser will be hard) but against quests without special enemy mechanics this deck feels broken, basically ignoring the combat phase. (it also defeatet Carn Dum in two attempts) You can muster high willpower and attack so easily and don't have do worry to much about defending.