The deck’s strategy is pretty clear from its starting heroes. I’m addicted to card draw, and in solo play this deck provides you four cards every turn (since Beravor will always exhaust to draw).
The card draw, along with the card search provided by allies like the Rivendell Minstrel and Master of the Forge, can set up combinations, feed Protector of Lórien, accelerate your resources, and fetch into your hand the cards you need when you need them. Plus, I’m a huge fan of having all those cards – and all those options – in my hand as I face the challenges the encounter deck has in store for me.
Love of Tales is a fun way for the deck’s sages to share their wealth of knowledge; they get rich as you play your Songs. There are nine Songs in the deck, six of which are attachments that provide the ability to play cards from other spheres, and three copies of Durin's Song, which can turn Bifur into a quest-completing champion, especially when in combination with cards that can ready him, such as the attachment, Miruvor.
-FFG Marketing Coordinator Josh Grace, posted to the FFG website 7/2/12