We Must Away Ere Break of Day Solo Progression 4.0

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DECK NAME - They See Me Trollin'

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NOTE: This is a goofy deck that quests for 1500+ ; brings a little spice to a boring quest only beat out for worst quest by its NM version. Usually takes 30 rounds to do this.

OVERVIEW - I hate this boring quest, so I'm adding a little flair to the inevitable win. There are 2 ways you can win the game: 1) the quicker way is to just quest for around 50 when you get to 2B) or 2) the long way is to kill Bert and gain the treasures at the end of the quest. I've built the deck for maximum fun in order to boost to 1500+ at the end of the game.

HEROES

• Aragorn - attach Nor am I a Stranger, 3X Resourceful, Song of Kings, Song of Travel, Steward of Gondor, and Sword that was Broken
• Beravor - attach Nor am I a Stranger and Song of Travel; draw cards every round
• Denethor - attach Nor am I a Stranger, 3X Unexpected Courage, 3X Spare Hood and Cloak
• Bilbo Baggins - attach Song of Travel

CARDS

• Elfhelm - great against several doomed treacheries
• Resourceful - play these at full cost asap
• Lórien's Wealth - don't play until the final push for 1500 unless you are desperate for Unexpected Courage or A Test of Will
• Peace, and Thought - exhaust Bilbo Baggins and Aragorn for effect
• We Are Not Idle - can play for free card draw even without a dwarf hero; play when you draw it; will be part of the combo at end of game but you'll recur so use it initially

STAGE 1

Use Denethor's action to look at what's coming in staging and commit characters as needed to clear locations without making progress on the quest; bury any problematic cards; you want to draw your hand before moving on to to 2B; play all your allies

Use Aragorn's refresh action when you are about the threat out

Before moving onto Stage 2....

• after using Aragorn's refresh action, play 3X Elrond's Counsel
• play 3X Dwarven Tomb to play 3X Elrond's Counsel
• make sure 1 copy of Troll Camp is in staging
• make sure Troll's Key is in staging
• play all your allies or nearly all (except Gandalf)
• play all attachments
• DON'T play Sneak Attack or Gandalf
• DON'T play the following events before moving on to stage 2: Astonishing Speed, Ever Vigilant, Grim Resolve, Hasty Stroke, Will of the West

STAGE 2

Immediately after progressing during quest resolution....

• travel to Troll Camp
• attach Troll Key and Purse to Bert
• engage Bert and damage him with Sneak Attack/Gandalf during the engagement phase
• Sneak Attack / Gandalf in combat (damage Bert)
• defend attack with Denethor; 1X Hasty Stroke may save the day
• attack Bert with Gandalf to kill him
• exhaust Bilbo to get the Troll Key; spend a resource to grab the purse
• play first copy of Will of the West
• next round use Bilbo with Troll Camp's action to discard the sacked card in play

Next steps...

• Don't engage the other trolls, just keep clearing locations while you creep up to 100 resources on Aragorn; threat will be plenty low
• using Denethor's action, do not place progress on the quest
• make sure no cards are discarded from your hand if possible (i.e. don't play events)

Questing for 1500

1. once Aragorn has 100 resources, you're ready
2. during questing before committing characters, play 3X Astonishing Speed (6 x 24 Rohan characters will result in 144 each time you do this)
3. play 3X Dwarven Tomb to recur 3X Astonishing Speed
4. play 3X Astonishing Speed
5. play second Will of the West to move the 6 cards in discard back to your empty deck
6. play 2X Lórien's Wealth and draw the 6 cards back into hand
7. repeat steps 2-4
8. exhaust Faramir too use his action (this will boost 33 total characters)
9. ready Faramir and use his action 6 more times using 3X Ever Vigilant and Grim Resolve (boosting 33 characters each time)
10. play third Will of the West to move the 14 cards in discard back to your empty deck
11. Sneak Attack Gandalf into play and draw 3 cards
12. play Lórien's Wealth to draw 3 cards
13. play 3X Daeron's Runes to draw 6 cards
14. play 2X We Are Not Idle to draw final 2 cards
15. play 3X Elrond's Counsel
16. repeat steps 2-4
17. repeat step 9 (34 for each action since we have added Gandalf)
18. ready Denethor 3 times with Unexpected Courage and exhaust him to move Spare Hood and Cloak to Faramir thereby readying him 3X to use his action an additional 3X (34 characters)
19. quest with all characters except Faramir (34 total characters); this will get you to exactly 1491
20. spend all remaining resources to boost Longbeard Map-Maker using action and get up over the 1500 mark