Haldan's Forest People (Con of the Rings 2018)

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Durins_Father 2883

PROXIES Beravor = proxy for Haldan, so -1 an +1 Haldir of Lórien for the Mirkwood Hunter ally from Ghost of Framsburg Dark Knowledge for Woodmen's Path from Roam Across Rhovanion Late Adventurer for South Away! from Roam Across Rhovanion

This is my version of the Haldan deck that I brought and improved during Con of the Rings 2018, where it attracted a lot of attention. It does use some cards from Roam across Rhovanion, so I will update to remove some proxies off this list in a later update.

This is a multiplayer orientated deck, where you provide goodies for the other members of your team. Make sure that you pump out a lot of attachments on (active) locations so that others can benefit off of them. The real surprise for me was South Away!, where you not only save yourself the travel cost, but also lower everyones threat by the number of attachments on the location you travelled to. Setting up this combo is easy, as attachments are cheap and very worth while.

Mulligan for attachments for on locations, as well as Light of Valinor and Asfaloth who both can be played on Glorfindel turn 1. This allows you to counter any location lock from the get go, while also setting up Glorfindel as an attacker. Haldan won't exhaust to quest when a location with an attachment is active, so that is a free 2 willpower on most turns. If you find yourself not engaged with enemies, you can use Haldan for Guarded Ceaselessly to lower the threat of a location in the staging area by 2, making him quest for 2 additional points basically.

Rest of the deck relies on getting a lot of attachments on locations, and then sniping them with Asfaloth, Mirkwood Explorer and The Evening Star. If you are short a location (or there is none active for Elf-stone) play a copy of The Hidden Way to find a location and get it active.

Ancient Mathom draws you your cards, Woodmen's Clearing lowers your threat, and Ranger Provisions gets you more resources to fuel your abilities. Elf-stoneallows you to pump out allies like Northern Tracker and the Mirkwood Hunter

The deck draws like crazy with the Ancient Mathoms and Haldan. Remember that Haldan only triggers off of the active location, so he requires some setup.Gandalf is added for flexibility and to have a sturdy ally into play. Elladan and Elrohir provide additional combat capabilities, though the deck lacks some defencive options.

I have been really debating on what hero line up to use besides Haldan. Either version of Glorfindel works, but Lore resources are slightly more useful than Spirit ones in this deck. The debate between Éowyn and Merry comes down to if you want a low threat or more willpower. Either option works, so feel free to play around with that.

This deck performed very well during Con of the Rings 2018, beating both The Oath and Caves of Nibin-Dum, as well as surviving the longest against Caleb Grace's encounter deck for Woodland Realm. You will need a partner deck to handle defence and occasionally attack as well, but you repay them with the attachments on locations that benefit the other players as well. This deck will perform even better if other players also run attachments for on locations, making the entire group benefit off of them. I really like this deck as you are sharing the wealth, while also having a stable source of card draw. You will have to reveal some locations though, but The Hidden Way and Dunedain Pathfinder can help you with that.

8 comments

Oct 16, 2018 Benedikt 247

Cool that you created a new Lorefindel deck!

Oct 16, 2018 Wandalf the Gizzard 2415

Would this deck be solo-viable? It seems like you might run short on defenders.

Oct 16, 2018 IstariKnight 28

The deck was amazing to see in person! Watching Ancient Mathom and Elf-stone trigger off the same location was definitely awesome.

Spirit Glorfindel is nice to keep enemies from engaging you, but the cards certainly skew towards Lore. I love Riddermark's Finest, so I'll see if I can get a Spirit Spirit Lore lineup to achieve any modicum of success.

Thanks for getting the list up!

Oct 16, 2018 Durins_Father 2883

@BenediktYeah, I wanted to use the new Alt Art I received, though Glorfindel can work too if you are looking to go back to the staples :)

@Wandalf the Gizzard Solo is a bit more tricky, and would advice adding in Merry and Glorfindel to avoid more enemies, maybe get down to Secrecy as well. The deck is very light on combat power and is more useful in multiplayer. But add in a Jubayr and some Tides of Fate and you could have a decent defender in these spheres. Arwen Undómiel can help out too in that regard. But the deck works best in 2-3 players. Solo will get you all your benefits of your attachments to yourself, which is sweet.

@IstariKnight Glad to know you saw it in person, the deck can be altered with a little bit, but remember that Haldan is only useful for active locations, so finishing locations in the staging area will only trigger the attachments themselves and not Haldan's card draw, but I doubt you will need the additional cards :)

Oct 16, 2018 Raiderjakk 52

Did Caleb release the contents of his deck?

Oct 17, 2018 The Purple Wizard 1151

Ranger Provisions, which you mention in the write-up, isn't in the deck list. Should it be? Or was that a typo of sorts?

Beyond that, I'm glad to hear this deck works. I wasn't sold on Haldan when I first heard of him, but it sounds like I should be.

Oct 17, 2018 Durins_Father 2883

@Raiderjakk Caleb hasn't posted his deck as far as I know, but it was a Caldara deck that made use of Narya on Cirdan to boost the Spirit allies brought in by her. I think similair decks are on RingsDB, but Caleb can't use the site as it is not FFG official.

@The Purple Wizard whoops, my bad. An earlier version of this deck ran Ranger Provisions as well, with A Good Harvest to be able to play the attachment. But for consistancy, it got cut for the new Lore and Spirit cards in the Roam across Rhovanion deck.

Oct 17, 2018 Goggen 113

What about Beregond in stead of Éowyn? With Haldan and Glorfindel questing you're not really low on starting .

It still works fine to partner with a combat-heavy deck in multi, as you can still let that deck handle combat, and sentinel across the table.

Perhaps then also sub in 2x Arwen Undómiel for Elladan and Elrohir, compensating for the loss of starting and the reduced need for defence (or possibly Rhovanion Outrider).