Rossiel Can Do It All (except kill really big enemies)

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ira212 has a newer deck inspired by this one: Rossiel Can Do It All (except kill really big enemies)

I've always wanted to make a successful Rossiel deck, and struggled to find something I liked. With The One Ring and The Grey Wanderer, the deck can get up and running pretty quickly. Obviously Strider is key, along with Power of Command for stronger questing. Inner Strength is nice too, for reliable defense and shadow cancellation. Because of Grey Wanderer, it's easy to play these non-unique cards. With an early Resourceful, you're generating 4 resources per turn, which is plenty. With an early Gléowine, you're drawing two cards per turn. Obviously the normal Lore card draw works well here to help you find what you need to get setup.

One other important early card is Out of the Wild, which sets up Keen as Lances, Rossiel's abilities, and The Door is Closed!. Though many Rossiel decks might remove a location first, I tend to remove an enemy first, both because I generally don't want to try killing enemies, and because there's often enough Willpower to make progress.

Rossiel is a great defender, readying multiple times per round, getting up to 7, and cancelling a shadow card when needed. But, this deck will struggle with any giant enemy.

Also, the deck is intended to be played solo and really control the encounter deck, knowing what's coming and avoiding enemies ever coming out. Or, if they do, shuffle them back in with the Woodmen's Path and Put Off Pursuit combo, which you can even trigger before resolving the quest phase with Asfaloth if needed.

The deck will also struggle against quests that churn through lots of encounter cards or very frequently reshuffle the encounter deck. For example, the deck almost certainly couldn't beat Beneath the Sands (http://lotr-lcg-quest-companion.gamersdungeon.net/#haradrim-cycle-quest-beneath-the-sands) but I was able to fairly safely beat The Black Serpent (http://lotr-lcg-quest-companion.gamersdungeon.net/#haradrim-cycle-quest-the-black-serpent), though it took two rounds to defeat the big boss at the end.

This deck certainly isn't for every quest, but I didn't see any other Rossiel Grey Wanderer decks in the DB, and I find it quite fun to control the encounter deck with precision, giving me the info I need to quest precisely and have favorable cards get revealed at the right moments.

Comments welcome, as always! The sideboard contains cards that I considered, but didn't use against The Black Serpent. I'm sure the deck could be improved.

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Nov 23, 2020 AutumnRose 996

How do you play the Celebrian Stone? Grey Wanderer only lets you play non-unique cards out of sphere.

Nov 23, 2020 ira212 256

Thanks for the comment, and you're totally right! I caught that after publishing it and posted the 2.0 version, with The Favor of the Lady instead. :) Since removing CelebrĂ­an's Stone frees up a restricted spot, you could also swap in A Burning Brand if you prefer, but I find that Inner Strength and 7 Defense is usually enough to handle shadow effects, so I prefer the willpower boost.

Thanks for taking a look and leaving a comment! :)

Nov 23, 2020 AutumnRose 996

Ah yes I see that other version now.

Anyway I love the deck! Rossiel is one of my favorite heroes and if I had the required cards I would totally build this deck. I'll have to show you a couple of Rossiel alt-arts I've been working on! I can drop them in the Discord :)

Nov 23, 2020 ira212 256

Please do! Thank you, AutumnRose!

Nov 25, 2020 askelad 628

if you have trouble killing big enemies, a Mirkwood Runner, while slow, will do it eventually.

add a Rivendell Bow and 2 Bow of the Galadhrim and it will kill stuff quicker

Nov 25, 2020 ira212 256

Good idea! I'm not sure about adding the 3 extra bow cards because that's a lot of extra space and I'm not sure what to give up, but I think a single Mirkwood Runner could take care of almost all enemies in 3 rounds, since few enemies have more than 6 HP. Also, with Treebeard and Quickbeam, I was able to defeat even the Black Serpent, so it's not impossible to take out big enemies, you just need to be a bit patient. :) Thanks for the idea!