Breaking of the Fellowship (Saga Campaign- The Road Darkens) 1.0

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This quest was much harder than I remember. Between Sarn Gebir, archery, and shadow effects that trigger based on printed hit points, there was a lot of stuff in the quest that pressured my heroes and caused multiple resets. I think I probably attempted the quest 6 or 7 times, tweaking the deck each time. I finally managed to beat it with this list.

On my victorious run, I decided to take the Phial of Galadriel as my starting boon. I was lucky to draw some copies of Frodo's Intuition early, and a turn 2 Peace, and Thought after a Fast Hitch on Sam meant I had a large hand going into turn 3. I was also fortunate to see two copies of Warden of Healing, meaning I could handle the archery and direct damage that this quest dishes out.

Once I made it to stage 2, I had two copies of Feint and a Sneak Attack + Gandalf to deal with the 3 zero engagement cost enemies that came bearing down. (I cut Hobbit Cloak as it did not help at all with this stage.) I chose to go Orc Hunting for 3A, quested well and kept the game under control by discarding or killing my engaged enemies. I wanted to hang around and try to find the Seat of Seeing, but I decided to end it after a Black-Feathered Arrows was revealed while I had 8 allies. 8 archery - ouch!

At resolution, I took Ill Fate as my earned burden and chose Merry to be the captured hero.

Now we go forth to the Treason of Saruman...