Black Riders Saga

This Fellowship is a slightly-thematic pairing for use in campaign mode during the Black Riders quests. One deck centers around making Aragorn a superhero doing lots of defending and questing, and the other lets the Hobbits work out some anger issues on a few Nazgul.

I titled the Aragorn deck King of Men because it uses a lot of his toys that may be thought of as belonging to later versions of Aragorn when he is starting to come into his birthright. The movies portray Aragorn as a bit reluctant to take on this role, but in the books he is much more gung-ho. It is an extreme version of this literary Aragorn that I am attempting to portray. He is owning his title from the beginning and bringing out the big guns straight-away. In order to fill out the hero lineup, it seemed reasonable to me that a FFG-created Dunedain as well as Glorfindel could have been involved in the efforts to escort the Hobbits to Rivendell. I'm trying to walk the line of being thematic but also competitive.

The second deck is my favorite archetype in the game, but I do realize the presence of such large allies is kinda weird for a thematic playthrough. They are though, for the most part, other rangers and elves that we can assume the adventurers met on their journey much like Gildor Inglorion. Also, there's a man-bear, because why not? I also tend to think of Anborn as more of a dunedain in this deck than a ranger of Ithilien. Some concessions must be made.

The Aragorn deck is there to provide Spirit access, high late-game questing, location control, and to handle more frequent, smaller enemies (such as the Bree-landers). It hopes to get at least two actions out of every hero, every turn. The Hobbit deck helps with early-game questing and taking down the occasional, large enemies (Nazgul). It also lots of engagement-boosting effects which can help the Aragorn deck avoid getting overwhelmed.

This fellowship was able to complete the saga quests after these numbers of attempts:

A Shadow of the Past: 3
The Old Forest: 1
Fog on the Barrow-Downs: 1
A Knife in the Dark: 4
Flight to the Ford: 1 (I was extremely fortunate with the cards on this one)