Beorning solo (alep included) 1.0

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Here is my try to build a Beorning deck for solo, using the alep themed cards (especially Birna, Osbera and Beorn's welcome).

My idea is never to build a deck for thematic reason but for getting the most efficient possible of a synergy. That is why I have absolutely no problem using as many cards outside of the theme as I want. I sure have a little voice that make me want to use those cards that was never played before. But efficiency is my goal, as I also like to play the really hard quest (I prefer to play the challenging scenarios, either they are nightmare or just hard quests).

To use as best the Beorning cards we need many tactics cards, meaning that the tactics face of Osbera is not enough. In solo I prefer Grimbeorn over Beorn so I go for him. Having both of them in solo would not be efficient since there is not that much fight and your allies already does that well. So I choose a hero outside the theme, and since in solo multi sphere is quite good I go for spirit or leadership. It could have been Arwen or Denethor who are always great but I prefer Halfast, his willpower, low threat and his drinking song that give more chance to found a steward on turn one.

There is many cards here because they are universally great (from henamarth to pippin, angbor, quickbeam, steward, fyrial...) and I encourage you to test them in any deck if you don't play them yet. I will rather focuse on the specific mechanism of the deck.

You want to keep Osbera in her A face, the one she is staring it, to lower the threat of the staging area. Flip her on face B when you can benefit from damaging a beorning this turn and/or when it came at no cost with Beorn's welcome.

You have many beorning ally but the two that are key are beorning skin-changer and Birna. With the two of them you can bring back from the hand or discard pile at no cost Beorn, giant bear, beorning beekeeper, or beorning guardian. Once your beorning skin-changer in discard (to perform his ability for example) you can pay 1 with Birna (possibly returned by beorn's welcome) and brought him back in play. Then you wan do again his ability to bring any beorning in play. So birna will shuffling him back anyway but you will have gain a large beorning this way. In the mid game you can also make things goes faster by having a beorning pony discard cards from the top of you deck in order to found a beorning to bring back in play with the skin-changer (who himself was brought back with Birna, did you still follow? ^^).

Beorning stats made this thematic heavily combat-based, so it is not really suit up for solo but by mixing it with so many generic cards it work quite fine. I also built a multiplayer version who rely even more on beorning characters.

Thanks for your attention, see you soon!