Wandering Strider 1.0

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Wandering Strider is a Grey Wanderer Master Loragorn deck that borrows from the recently announced City of Ulfast and Challenge of the Wainriders packs.

Swap:
Fellowship -> Grey Wanderer

3x Rivendell Bow -> 3x Keen Longbow

Setup: Start with The One Ring and Strider in play, add Inner Strength to hand
(if the quest demands more starting willpower, try Power of Command instead)
Shuffle in 2-3 copies of Power of Orthanc if the quest calls for it.
Mulligan for 1-2 questing/secrecy allies, Resourceful, and/or The Master Ring.

First round, trigger Grey Wanderer during planning to start with 3 resources. Play any of the 2 allies to have a core team questing for 6 with Aragorn ready to Sentinel defend. Next turn you can play Inner Strength and he'll be defending for 3/5 with shadow cancellation.

Alternatively if you need to tank a hit from the first round, play Inner Strength right away and Aragorn can quest for 4 and stay ready to take a 6 hit with shadow cancellation every turn for the rest of the game and stay fully healed with Grey Wanderer.

With only 12 starting threat and the Loragorn reset, you'll have plenty of predictable secrecy time to build up board state, and Grey Wanderer + Resourceful should fill the coffers by the time Blood and Fire show up, when the game switches to Easy Mode.

In the meantime, load your Keen Longbow with Elven Light for more card draw/arrow reload, unique attachments to be later Reforged (Sword that was Broken or Mithril Shirt), or secrecy cards when threat levels are too high.

Play Pillars of the Kings before/when threat hits 30 to draw 4 cards. Threat reset, play any saved secrecy cards, and maybe do it again if you're in the final few rounds or you're feeling bold, or you've already found the third copy (which will give you 4 threat reduction back to 40 when you hit 44), but don't forget that your threat elimination level is reduced to 45; otherwise drop the remaining copies to the longbow.