Crimson Skies Fellowship

GrandSpleen 1398

Description

A 4-player fellowship centered on the idea of applying many direct damage effects.

Untested, and mainly the product of being confined to a couch for baby nap-time duty several times over the holidays. Willpower is likely to be a shortfall of the fellowship as a whole.

Target Painting (Argalad/Idraen/Lanwyn): a Scout deck. Willpower and location control. Direct damage provided by Argalad.

Aerial Support (Thalin/Hirgon/Radagast): combat deck with low-medium willpower. Thalin, Descendants of Thorondor, and Hail of Stones provide direct damage.

Precision Strikes (Bilbo/Tom/Galadriel): medium/low willpower in a combat support deck. Bilbo provides direct damage support, as do Sting, Gondorian Spearmen, Spears of the Citadel, and Farmer Maggot.

Carpet Bombs (Celeborn/Legolas/Thranduil): Silvan deck with ranged combat focus, can provide low willpower. Direct damage provided by Galadhon Archer, Rumil, and the 'ranged' direct damage events: Skyward Volley, Rain of Arrows, and the Silvan event Pursuing the Enemy.

3 comments

Jan 06, 2020 Denison 619

I love it when a plan comes together.

Jan 07, 2020 slothgodfather 45

Seems really fun. Really love that you built it with 1 collection in mind. I'm going to see if my group would be interested in playing this some time. I'd offer that if you switched out Galadriel for Eowyn, that deck would have an easier time committing to the quest, and her discard ability gets that much better in a 4 player game, allowing her to potentially quest for 8. It also is a great dump of duplicate unique attachments that get drawn after anyone has one in play already. Bonus, with her quest action, you can wait to see what gets revealed before deciding to discard or not. Granted, that interferes with Elrond's Council and your draw from Hobbit Pipe, but you could replace the Council with Elven Light and then not have to reply on a combo to gain draw. I see the last deck is running Keen as Lances but I don't see anything going into the Victory display. Seems expensive, what about using Gandalf instead? I only see 2 Guarded cards. What about Glamdring or Ocrist or the Arkenstone? The Arkenstone would be good for your Precision Strikes deck I think with that handful of unique characters. If you did make the switch to Galadriel, dropping Elrond's Council and Nenya could be traded for Elven Light and 1x of the above guarded cards, which would increase Bilbo's usefulness. Just some thoughts. Thanks for the cool deck ideas!

Jan 08, 2020 GrandSpleen 1398

I had a version of the Thalin deck that used Tactics Theoden, the Fellowship contract, and the Arkenstone, but eventually decided there weren’t enough unique tactics characters who I wanted to include, especially with some of them already tied up in other decks. As for Keen as Lances, I sometimes use that as a solution for card draw or threat reduction even in the absence of victory display shenanigans. The cost curve to threat reduction ends up being very similar to ally Gandalf, bit of course you don’t get an ally with it. But in this case probably just using would have been better, since I didn’t end up using him in other decks. Thanks for your comments! Hope it works out for you if you do give it a whirl.