Secret Strides 1.0

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Secret Strides or "Eff off back to the South-Farthing Folco"

Updated version of my original Rossiel using Folco Boffin in place of Mirlonde

Still trying to make Rossiel the central figure of a victory display deck, this didn't really accomplish that and just ended up being a "3 ready questers" deck with her, Glorfindel and Gandalf

Played through Dungeons of Cirith Gurat and beat it on the second attempt after getting location locked during the first. It's been a while since building a deck with the physical cards so after the win realised that my deck was missing the Test of Will's so wasn't 'legal' and was probably helped by lucky draws from the encounter deck

Opening Hand:

You're going to mulligan for Resourceful and hopefully at least one of the following Light of Valinor (because Glorfindel), Strider and Out of the Wild

If you don't get Light it's not a big deal questing with Glorfindel without it for a turn or 2 as ideally you'll be using Folco Boffin threat reduction after questing on the second turn, but if you don't see it and/or Strider by then hold off putting him back on his cart and sending him on his merry way for a turn or two.

At the Table:

Your first Resourceful should go on Rossiel as the bulk of the deck is and this probably should apply to your first Leaf Brooch too. Having Leave No Trace, None Return or even Out of the Wild for free is a huge benefit, and the earlier you ditch Folco Boffin the more it'll pay off.

However, if you can get your Elven-light engine with something like Protector of Lórien having a Leaf Brooch on Glorfindel can get you effectively 4 cards for a resource. while you can maintain your secrecy discount.

Sideboard:

The sideboard here isn't entirely accurate as it's just stuff I pulled from the original decklist. but you could probably sub in Lanwyn for Glorfindel for a more multiplayer/quest dependent version that will probably sacrifice some of the secrecy side so you could probably drop stuff like Leaf Brooch, and you'll be less flexible on where your Light of Valinor and Strider goes.

During the Crossing of Poros shipping snafu around when The Black Serpent was released I grabbed a copy from Belgium, so Magic Ring was in the deck I played through Cirith Gurat with and did a fair amount of work so probably worth making space for when that comes out.