Chieftain Aragorn 1.0

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I present here this deck in its solo version. As it is, is a Roheryn + Gondorian Fire + Steward of Gondor deck. With the twist that is a deck very fast to set up. With Master of the Forge, Galadriel, Daeron's Rune, Deep Knowledge, Legacy of Númenor and Gandalf + Sneak Attack, this deck will most of the times be set up by turn two.

There is not a single combination for a good starting hand. Eventually you want Aragorn loaded with all his toys. You may have them in your starting hand, or you may have cards, such as Master of the Forge, Deep Knowledge and Legacy of Númenor in your starting hand which will find them and allow you to play them fast, all is good.

Nevertheless, where I like this deck the most is in multiplayer. In multiplayer games, with Deep Knowledge and Legacy of Númenor, it acts as a sort of accelerator deck for the others. Making some slow decks very viable (I tend to make slow decks). For example, I pair it with my Rohan /Gondor, deck which is very strong but slow, allowing me to set it up faster, it works wonders.

In multiplayer, exchange cards which are not critical for the deck, like Sword of Númenor, Wardem of Healing or Faramir, by some copies of Desperate Alliance to mitigate other players rise of threat due to the Doom effect of this deck cards.

In multiplayer, ideally you want Deep Knowledge and Legacy of Númenor to appear in your hand soon, I would say within the first two turns.

I would also say this deck only really needs one copy Unexpected Courage attached to Aragorn, so he can quest and charge with Roheryn in the same turn. Therefore, in multiplayer you may prefer to exchange some copies of Unexpected Courage (and may be other non-critical cards as I mentioned above) by mounts which provide ready effects, like Steed of the Mark, Steed of the North, Armored Destrier... in order to take more advantage of Elfhelm's ability.

I hope you like it!