Yes, this Spirit Pippin Deck soloed Cobas Haven

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Seastan has a newer deck inspired by this one: Spirit Pippin Goes Sailing

Updated version here: http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/3371/spirit-pippin-goes-sailing-2.0

A guide to beating A Storm on Cobas Haven with Hobbits.

Setup

  1. Choose Narlenya as your ship (in addition to Dream-chaser).
  2. Choose Sea-ward Tower as your first objective.
  3. Nothing in particular you need to mulligan for here.

Strategy

Draw 2 cards each turn with Bilbo, and play down 2+ cheap allies per turn with the help of Narlenya's resource acceleration.

There is no rush to get the first objective. With your army of allies the sailing tests should (must) be passed every turn. I normally commit 7+ to the sailing test. The rest of the higher willpower characters commit to the quest.

Keep your threat low with Gandalf and Greeting. The lowest threat enemy in the deck is 28.

Henamarth isn't as useful in sailing quests as he usually is, but it's nice to see a success symbol on the top of the deck and know that you only have to commit 1 character to the sailing test.

If the situation arises where you must kill a ship to advance the quest, you have a few options:

  1. Nuke it in the staging area with a couple Gandalfs.
  2. Engage the ship and send the corsairs back to the staging area with Pippin. Then kill the ship with some combination of your ships, Treebeard, Quickbeam, Gandalf, and Sam (who should be boosted). Take an undefended attack on your ships if you need to.
  3. Make the ship disappear with Saruman (not in this version of the deck).

The last threat to the deck is enemies engaging you with Boarding Party. For that, you have Pippin!

I will leave the rest up to you. The deck is very consistent, and I've yet to lose against Cobas Haven with it.

13 comments

Oct 05, 2016 AtaruSlash 4450

Oh, you and your turtley ways. Take my like for a functional spirit Pippin deck, you rascal.

Oct 05, 2016 OKTarg 202

Would be better with pipes. 0/10 would not play.

Just kidding. Love the deck!

Oct 05, 2016 Qwaz 404

...Spirit...Pippin.... ?

O//

The force is strong in this one.

Oct 05, 2016 Bardo el Arquero 1

Funny how I was just listening how Pippin is the worst spirit hero in The Gray Company podcast.

So, when can we expect the video to hit YouTube?! ;-)

Oct 06, 2016 OKTarg 202

Am I missing something or do you have no targets for Squire of the Citadel? Would the Snowbourne Scout be a better swap there, or even the 2-drop Leadership Outlands guy?

Oct 06, 2016 Seastan 42133

@OKTargYep good catch. I forgot to swap them when I took steward out of the deck.

Oct 07, 2016 MDuckworth83 3538

My respect sir. Not only did you create a viable solo deck with Pippin, but you even did it without even using Steward of Gondor!

Well done. Creative decks like this give me hope for the game's future.

Oct 07, 2016 WanderingTook 1369

Achievement unlocked!

Oct 08, 2016 DukeWellington 186

Reasons I like this deck: 1. Not a "one deck to rule them all" style, specialized against a specific quest (or type of quest) 2. Uses spirit Pippen effectively without some forced gimmick (in other words, spirit Pippen is just actually good against the quest) 3. Does not use Steward or AVGT or Peace and Thought/Fast Hitch combo. In general, avoids almost all common power cards. 4. Bill the Pony, seriously one of my favorite cards (natural synergy with AVGT, which you did not use) and the Weaver (so good in this deck).

I hope these are signs of trends that will continue =)

Oct 19, 2016 Lecitadin 193

I was about to try this deck against Cobas, but tried with a classic Silav deck (Haldir of Lórien, Celeborn and [Galadriel])(/card/08112), because allies that don't quest when they enter play can be used for Sailing tests (including the ally-ships during the first round). I won, but it was close at the end...

I'll try again soon with this deck!

Oct 19, 2016 Seastan 42133

@LecitadinInteresting. But wouldn't the ship-objectives be immune to Galadriel's effect?

Oct 19, 2016 Lecitadin 193

Oops... I guess... and also, I'm not sure if the Setup is part of the first round, I think it happens before... :-/

(I'm always happy to catch me making noob mistakes after playing this game for 3 years....) :-P

Nov 22, 2016 goehringhd 1

Seastan is an absolute madman....