The Hall of Fire 2.0

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Frodo found himself walking with Gandalf. "This is the Hall of Fire" said the wizard. "Here you will hear many songs and tales-if you can keep awake. But except on high days it usually stands empty and quiet, and people come here who wish for peace, and thought. There is always a fire here, all the year round, but there is little other light."

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a thematic and janky song deck! Let's sit by the fire in Rivendell and listen to old Bilbo tell some of his great stories.

Summary

Decks tend to either focus on weaker heroes that build up an army of allies, or high-stat heroes that get equipped with a bunch of attachments (or both). Here we have a set of lower stat heroes and focus on building up a well rounded board without a single ally. We also spend most of the game in secrecy and yet play no secrecy cards!

Overall, it's a deck I really enjoyed playing despite not being the strongest deck out there. The draw is rather in the theme and the fresh take on gameplay. I hope you enjoy it if you decide to give it a try!

Strategy

Start your game with a mulligan for Love of Tales, since it's your resource engine. Then try to get Fireside Song on Bilbo next, since it's your questing engine. If you can do this by turn 2 you're in good shape, but I have often gotten it done on turn one via: Song of Wisdom on Frodo -> Love of Tales on Frodo -> play a Song on Bilbo -> trigger Love of Tales -> Play Fireside Song.

Since you alread have a good defender (Frodo) the next step is to setup an attacker. Since I wanted to make this as a strict no-allies deck for maximum jankiness, I opted for In Service of the Steward and Gondorian Fire on Erestor. I consider it on-theme since it's got "Fire" in the title :D, but if it helps you can just call it Noldorian Fire.

Then you start stacking on the rest of the attachments. I generally try to spend Bilbo's resources whenever possible, so that Erestor's can build up to fuel the Fire.

The Fast Hitches go on Frodo to allow him to quest and defend, or possibly defend twice if there's a weaker enemy that he doesn't need to trigger his ability for. The threat raise from Frodo's ability is strongly counteracted by the threat reduction in the deck. I've played several games where I spend the last few rounds at 0 threat.

Once Friend of Friends comes online, Bilbo becomes a passable defender as well, so you could put a Fast Hitch on him too.

The Unexpected Courages go on Erestor so he can attack multiple times or quest and attack.

All the songs go on Bilbo if they can. Song of Eärendil has to go on Frodo until Bilbo gets a Song of Travel, but Frodo will get the second copy of Fireside Song so he will still be able to make use of these attachments.

In the end, Bilbo ends up with 14+ , Frodo at 4+ , and Erestor at 10+ , with each hero being able to perform multiple actions.