Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky 1.0

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This is the most powerful deck that I have designed so far. It is very thematic and so enjoyable to play.

Basically, the deck is designed to have Elrond wield his ring to bring powerful allies and artifacts into the game early on in order to establish a decent board state, so look for either Word of Command, Mirror of Galadriel or Vilya itself in your opening hand. Next is Nenya to make Galadriel a little more useful and Silver Harp to make sure some of our 'one-of' cards don't go walkies when scrying the deck with Galadriel's mirror. The other single most important card in this deck is Wizard Pipe. This not only enables Gandalf to help pay for any card in the deck but more importantly it will ensure that Elrond will be bringing in the big guns using his ring's ability. As we can see the top of the deck thanks to Gandalf, we know exactly when to use it. If we can get Radagast in early, he can help to pay for our eagle allies and we can get another pipe on him for even more resource smoothing as Gandalf will be able to pay for A Test of Will in the questing phase. Steward of Gondor is perhaps unnecessary with the inclusion of Gandalf's Staff but it can go on any of our heroes to great effect. I stick 1 copy of Unexpected Courage on Galadriel so we can use both her ring and her own ability and the other two go on Elrond with A Burning Brand and Protector of Lórien so he becomes an even more formidable defender. Gandalf has Shadowfax so he doesn't really need any more readying effects.

One last thing, don't forget about Elrond or Galdriel's other abilities. I made this mistake the first few play-throughs and although there is very little amongst our allies, being able to quest with Gildor, use his ability and then ready him as an extra defender/attacker using #Narya is pretty awesome. It is worthy to note that with Elrond in play, Radagast can heal 2 wounds on an eagle for 1 resource. Those with less health can be used as fuel for Eagles of the Misty Mountains.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy using this as much as I have...