Steward's Fear - The Ultimate Solo Deck

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The Steward's Fear - 1 Player - 2023-01-05
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Zura 297

I'm a big fan of the steward's fear quest. I think it's excellent and it's one of my go-to scenarios for solo play. And this deck is one that can complete this quest fairly reliably. It has answers to all plots and enough tempo to make sure the plot effects won't warp the game for too long so encounter deck makes a comeback: 1) Fire plot > Will of the west 2) Threat plot > Elfhelm is stupidly good against this one, saves you one threat a turn. Also 3x elrond's counseal, 2x galadhrim's Greeting and 2x dwarven tomb to bring those back. The easiest plot. 3) Extra encounter card plot > this one's the hardest, but if you can get sword that was broken and either faramir or asfaloth into play with load of allies, you should be able to push through.

Use hail of stones to kill either traitors or the final boss (this one's funny as hell). I love just throwing stones at the final boss like you don't care. Good strategy is if you find a clue objective to leave it in staging until you want to progress from stage 2 to 3 and throw the stones at the boss.

If you have 3rd core, definietely include 3rd celebrian stone. Mulligan for it and steward of gondor, put both on Aragorn.

Beregond is only here to take care of defending without having to invest anything into him to make him reliable at it. Move his resources away from him with errand-rider.

Have fun!

16 comments

Sep 23, 2018 pd187540 22

What do the > symbols mean in your description?

Sep 24, 2018 pd187540 22

Doesn't matter what the > means. This is an absolutely horrible deck for this scenario, truly. You need cards the counteract shadow effects. Having Beregond only do defending is not enough. Very poor choices of allies. Asfaloth is also extremely hard to get onto the table because you need to play another card to give a hero a Lore resource, so location management absolutely sucks. I have no idea how or why this deck was even made. Not worth playing with at all.

Sep 24, 2018 radAGHAST 440

@pd187540 your comment is so rude I’m honestly wondering if it’s a joke. If you have a negative experience with a deck, offer helpful suggestions to the person who took the time to make it.

Sep 24, 2018 MagicFlea 283

@radAGHAST Unfortunately it’s not a joke. This troll has been going around trashing perfectly functional decks for a while now and does not seem interesting in listening to reason or calls for decency. Unfortunately I don’t see a function to report their behavior.

Sep 24, 2018 Seastan 42020

@MagicFleaNo need to report, I have been aware of this person's behavior for a while. Currently I don't plan to ban people or remove comments, however harsh, as long as they are directed at the decklist and not the deckbuilder.

I should also note that as the publisher of this decklist, @MadaoMadao is the moderator of this comment section and can simply click on the red 'X' next to a comment to hide it.

Sep 24, 2018 MagicFlea 283

@SeastanThanks. Should the moderation extend to featured comments on the front page? His unexplained declaration of “garbage deck” on another decklist has apparently been moderated but still appears on the front page.

Sep 24, 2018 pd187540 22

Criticism of specific decks are certainly allowed. Nothing you can do about it, and censorship will not be tolerated. The above strategy just fails to work after trying at least 3 times. Link to a video showing the strategy at work is needed.

Sep 24, 2018 Seastan 42020

@MagicFleaDone: github.com

Sep 24, 2018 MagicFlea 283

@SeastanThanks. I appreciate your efforts!

Sep 24, 2018 pd187540 22

Thankfully, this doesn't hide my comments everywhere :). Good luck with that! And I was just notified that Seastan has a one deck that beats everything uploaded 4 months ago. You would think that he would suggest that to me, but no. Some help that guy is!

Sep 24, 2018 radAGHAST 440

@Seastan @MagicFlea Thanks for thinking about this.

@MadaoMadao I think you have the bones of a good deck. I think it's cool how you thought about the specific different plots. I always forget about Elfhelm and his super cool ability. One suggestion would be to try having more stuff for Beregond's resources to do. That could include more tactics cards, or Song of Kings/Song of Travel, or Blood of Numenor to make him a brick house. Thanks for sharing your ideas. =)

Sep 26, 2018 Zura 297

@pd187540i will try to get you a video today or tommorow. sorry but i just saw the comments. Just give me a bit of time to get some recording software going. @radAGHASTFrom my experience there are no tactics cards for that quest in this cardpool that are more desirable that any of the stuff put here. Errand riders are better than songs in that case as they have multiple uses and getting them in multiples is still useful. Beregond can pay for Gandalf as well.

Sep 26, 2018 Warden of Arnor 5748

@MadaoMadaoSpeaking from experience, having a video demonstrating your strategy working is no guarantee against this guy calling your deck trash. So only do it if you really want to.

Sep 26, 2018 pd187540 22

It certainly would be a guarantee, and I would take back the trash comment. I already beat this scenario anyway using The One Deck, but it took me 4 attempts. I had no idea what "turtling" meant, which is what caused me to fail it.

Sep 26, 2018 Sechen 130

Since you plan on using so few tactics card, have you considered just running spirit beregond? Hail of Stones against a boss is pretty funny, but the consistency of having 2 spirit heroes out of the box seems like it might be better.

Sep 27, 2018 Zura 297

@pd187540 Your video: www.youtube.com Took me a while to get the recording working. If you have any questions, ask. @Secheni would use Spirit Beregond (no contest) but he wasn't in the cardpool when the quest was relased and optimal progression expierience was what i was aiming for.