Men of the West 1.0

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I designed this deck at the behest of @toxiczammy. It is a deck intended to complement his posted deck list, "For Gondor!". The deck focuses more on combat and healing to keep your fellowships up and running, while the "For Gondor!" listing defends and quests.

The idea is to utilize Denethor and Visionary Leadership to turn Boromir into a Gondorian Dain Ironfoot that can still quest, attack, or defend as needed. Aragorn gives us access to the fantastic utility and healing of the Lore sphere, and once equipped with the right attachments, becomes a superior quester and attacker, as well as boosting the rest of your team's willpower. Mablung is a very flexible hero that offers resource generation and access to Tactics attachments to place on your heroes or on the heroes of the other deck (say, Gondorian Shield in addition to Blood of Númenor on Beregond?), and is also your generalist in terms of what all you can do with him (he can become an attacker, another defender, or a solid quester depending on your needs every round).

Since healing is so necessary in so many quests, I included Ioreth, Warden of Healing, The Long Defeat, and Dúnedain Remedy as your go to options, along with two copies of Waters of Nimrodel as a failsafe against really tough quests. While it may not seem good at first glance to make all players suffer the Doomed cost, Aragorn can reset this deck's threat if necessary, and Beregond will have enough defense through his own innate stats and the attachments to continually reduce his deck's threat as well.

I hope this deck gets the wheels turning in others' minds in terms of how to improve it. Again, please keep in mind that this deck was constructed with the intent of being played alongside @toxiczammy's "For Gondor!" deck, recently listed on RingsDB. Check it out, compare the lists, and let us know what you think!