Merry Christmas! 1.0

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Ho ho ho! It's a Christmas deck!

This year you are the giver of presents. Clamber upon Santa's sleigh and be prepared to rain down gifts upon your fellowship.

Very few of these attachments are intended to be played on your own deck. This is a multiplayer deck and doesn't contribute a lick to combat (although I did manage a couple of Wargs in 2-handed play of The Redhorn Gate), and actually its willpower and location control is not high either. You are strictly here to spread cheer and boost your teammates! I do recommend getting a couple of attachments on your own characters, however, to make Traffic from Dale worthwhile.

As you can see, this is a 100 card deck and 70% attachments. In addition to that, nearly all of them are 0 and 1 cost attachments. Erestor provides draw to give you options to play, as does the A Perilous Voyage contract. You won't be able to play your whole hand down each turn, but some turns you will. And when you can't, that's OK: if you've gotten Song of Healing into play somewhere, those cards might have somewhere to go! Bard son of Brand allows you to use resources flexibly, as well as pay for tactics item attachments. Gildor Inglorion can draw you or another player a card if you've got spare resources.

When the contract is flipped, you have some choices for your 3-cost reduction on an attachment: Citadel Plate, Favor of the Valar, Path of Need, Sword-thain. These might get discarded by Erestor's effect. If you're lucky, you will catch them with the contract's draw effect, and place them on the bottom of your deck. Even if you're unlucky and they all get discarded, you'll still have some cheaper attachment in your deck to dig out and play for free.

Reforged helps you play an attachment you lost to Erestor's effect. Bartering is also here for that reason: it preserves attachments you'd otherwise need to discard. For example, I played a Squire's Helm on a Dunedain Pathfinder even though he didn't need it. I had the resources and was going to lose it anyway. Later, my companion deck plunked down a Guardian of Rivendell. When I drew into Bartering later on, I took the Helm back into my hand and played it on that Guardian. Long Lake Traders can serve a similar function.

Gléowine can help you or other players draw cards, or provide willpower at need. Bilbo Baggins is here for willpower but he can also draw out Spare Pipe if you've got resources to pay for it when you do.

I built this as a A Perilous Voyage deck for fun, and included Erestor to maximize draw and options per round, making it a fun but unpredictable deck. You could do a similar thing by dropping the contract and cutting card quantities if you're up against a quest that is sure to threat you out.

One final note here: this is built as a general "play with any 3-4 player fellowship" deck. If you know what other decks are going to be on the table in advance, you can actually optimize this idea for them: more Dwarf or Silvan attachments, for example. I've kept those cards out of this deck in order to leave it general here.

Merry Christmas!