Race to Rivendell (Dream Starter Deck #5)

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After listening to the latest episode of CoTR, I started thinking about what a good fifth starter deck might look like. So I threw this together to see if I could make a deck with the following constraints:

1) It needs to use only cards outside of the reprinted content:

  • SoM
  • KD+D
  • HoN+AtS
  • VoI+R-m
  • SoH+H
  • SitE+VoM
  • OHaUH+OtD

(Bonus if it doesn't use any cards in other starter decks, but for this one I just had to include Elrond's Counsel. I certainly wouldn't mind having three more copies of that card.)

2) It needs to be a viable deck on its own (able to beat more than just Passage Through Mirkwood and The Oath)

3) It must contain Fast Hitch as a usable card in the deck.

This is what I came up with. It's not the strongest deck ever but it's quite capable, and quite fun. The hero lineup is certainly not new, but the constraint of only using non-reprinted content was quite fun to work around.

Next up: starter deck #6 featuring Thurindir and the non-reprinted side quests.

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