Make Safe the City

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Seastan 41834

Seastan has a newer deck inspired by this one: Make Safe the City

(Edit: Swap Spear of the Citadel for Livery of the Tower)

I'm a big fan of decks that can get off to a really strong start with minimal luck. One example of this concept is my Rohan, meet Dunedain that can reliably set up a strong defender and attacker and still put out decent willpower on turn 1.

Here's another deck in the same vein, with a similar theme of a mixture of two traits: Rohan and Gondor. Theoden and Eowyn ride to the defense of Minas Tirith, to make safe the city. The Silvan Refugee might seem out of place, but less so when you read about Nimrodel and her company of refugees that got lost in Gondor.

This deck also has the oddity of featuring tactics Théoden as the sole tactics hero. It felt really weird building it but it actually works. Thanks to Snowmane/Herugrim he gets to use his willpower twice each round.

Early Game

The early game is all I'm going to talk about because this deck sets up really fast.

Mulligan for Herugrim and play it on Theoden. Open the Armory serves as backup to ensure you find it consistently. You can now potentially quest for 4+, defend for 4, and attack for 6.

Turn 2 you can get out Snowmane on Theoden (findable with Westfold Horse-breeder) and a Gondorian Shield on Beregond (findable with Open the Armory).

Now you're questing for 7+, defending for 6 (with threat reduction), and attacking for 6.

The rest of the attachments are not as important, but still useful depending on what kind of quest you're up against:

Against a quest with a lot of swarming enemies, you will want Unexpected Courage for Beregond, and Firefoot on Theoden to let you deal with more than 1 enemy at a time.

Against a quest with bigger enemies, you will want to increase Theoden's willpower. With Firefoot, 3x The Favor of the Lady and Necklace of Girion, he can reach a maximum of 12 .

4 comments

Aug 13, 2018 tryp09 10

Can you comment on why TaTheoden and SpEowyn instead of SpTheoden and TaEowyn?

Aug 14, 2018 Seastan 41834

`@tryp09Having 2 spirit heroes lets me play Herugrim turn 1. Also the deck is mostly spirit cards since we need the willpower support.

Aug 14, 2018 tryp09 10

I meant why not have spirit beregond spirit theoden and tactics eowyn

Aug 14, 2018 Seastan 41834

Ah sorry. The reason for that is tactics Theoden has 6 with Herugrim, while spirit Theoden would only have 5. The deck also needs card draw, which you get with Eowyn+Elven-light.