Dunedain Trappers 1.0

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Just finally managed to play my first game with this deck and had a blast! It is really a fun deck to play...it feels thematic and powerful. My next move is to take it against Carn Dum! Thanks for posting it!

@Trialus Glad you liked it!

A note about Carn Dum. The shadow cards on enemies that have been trapped will not get discarded at the end of the round. So eventually the whole encounter deck will be locked up as shadow cards! This would be fine, except stage 2 makes you raise your threat by 1 for each shadow card in play. So I recommend including Favor of the Valar to cope with that threat raise. Even still, it's a very tough quest. Good luck!

Thanks for the heads up!

@Seastan So I took it up against Carn Dum in easy mode and it did great! I took your advice to add Favor of the Valar and stayed in stage 1 until I got it into play (found it with a Master of the Forge...man that card does some work). I think I got really lucky with my opening hand also...2 Forest Snares and a Dúnedain Hunter so i was able to to pull out an enemy, snare it and get started on a good foot.

Might even get brave and give it a go on normal mode...

@TrialusWow, congrats! That is a tough quest even on easy mode.

Wow this deck is awesomely powerful and great fun to play - thanks !

@Seastan So I've been continuing to use this deck on the Grey Havens and have still bee really enjoying it. So far I've gotten through Fate of Numenor...which took me a few tries to be honest. I have made a few changes that have worked out well for me and I thought I'd share them...I don't know that they make the deck "stronger," but they have worked well for me. First, I swapped out Descendants of Kings in favor of one Wingfoot and one Unexpected Courage because I like the repeatable readying better than as an event (also I have opportunities to grab them with Galadriel or Master of Lore). I also subbed out Tighten Our Belts, Dúnedain Hunter and Ranger Spikes for Warden of Healing, A Burning Brand and Entangling Nets. These three actually work very together. Although it probably constitutes a 3 card combo, there is such good card draw that it comes together pretty well. Entangling Nets makes it gives more opportunities to stay engaged with enemies due to the -2 ATK. With A Burning Brand on Aragorn it makes it pretty easy to take those attacks undefended without undefended and not worry about nasty shadow effects. If the enemy's ATK is high enough to get through his DEF even with the -2 then Warden of Healing can keep him going or one of the Gondorian Shield can give him some extra DEF.

Again, wouldn't really say these are better tan the original version, but they have served me well and been fun to play.

@TrialusI must have missed your post from so long ago. Sorry! But thanks for your comments, and I'll just say that I agree about Entangling Nets! The card wasn't out when I built this deck, but it is a perfect fit into the Dunedain Trapper archetype. Another solid new card is Armored Destrier.

@Trialus Beware! If you let an attack undefended there is no shadow cancel with A burning brand since Aragorn is not defensor (that the concept of un-defended :p). @SeastanI may give a shot to this deck. Have you a updated list? Or advice to do so?

@RouxxorMy main advice would be to find a way to add 3x Entangling Nets, since these help you keep more enemies engaged.

Once Crossing of Poros is released, adding Followed and Emyn Arnen Ranger are a must. It will make questing with the deck much easier, allowing you to drop the spirit cards, which can make the deck clunky at times.

Thanks :).

Since there is LoAragorn I was tempted to include some legacy of numenor, who give a really good resources boost at the beginning of the games.

I will probably prefer a A Burning Brand + Armored Destrier combinaison rather than dunedain watcher. It is something you think about when you build this deck?

I really like Mablung, since you can even play with enemy for make them fall into trap, or get them engaged on turn one. I probably play at least one, as well as warden of healing.

The Destrier is a fine idea. It didn't exist when I build this deck :)

Mablung is good but I think the Emyn Arnen ranges will be better.

You need an enemy with 3+ threat for getting a better Amyn Arnen ranges, and you still don't have the enter play effect. But I will probably playing both of them :).

Finding a high threat enemy and trapping it with forest snare should not be hard for this deck to do.

1. Play Followed
2. Play Dúnedain Hunter, choose high threat enemy.
3. Play Forest Snare

I am actually considering a card like Shadow of the Past to return a high threat enemy to the top of the deck. Then you can play multiple copies of Followed and guarantee it hits a high threat enemy.

Putting together what we told I made this list: ringsdb.com . Have you any other thought?

As a starting player, what would you take out to put in Followed! and Emyn Arnen Rangers?

@jimthechin Probably the spirit allies.

Oh duh! Thanks for your patience @Seastan!

@Seastan How would you change this deck to reflect the current card pool?

Such a fun deck!

@Seastan any plans to update this deck with latest card list?