Defend once - Kill many

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I wanted to make a deck around Aragorn, but rather than a classic combat-heavy multiplayer deck pulling enemies from across the table, or an "engagement-deck" exploiting Mablung I wanted to go a different way.

Here I've put him in something close to a secrecy-deck, which struck me as a fun idea.

The goal is to keep a low threat and all the enemies in the staging-area, except for one enemy of your choice that you optionally engage. Defend with Sam Gamgee and then start killing with Aragorn and pulling enemies from the staging-area after the enemy attack-step. That way, as the name implies, you can defend only once (and against the weakest enemy since you can choose) and kill many.


Hobbit Cloak and Staff of Lebethron all go on Sam (quite obviously). Even more obviously Glorfindel get's Light of Valinor and he can take third Rohan Warhorse if they all 3 show. Everything else goes on Aragorn.

Feint is your standard in-case-of-emergency, and can also help the early-game until Sam has all his toy's. Unseen Strike is also great in the early-game to give you a jump-start.

Westfold Horse-breeder digs for the Rohan Warhorse. The horse-breeder also has some nice synergy with Arod if you have enough ready-effects already, and on Aragorn Arod can be very effective.

Halbarad can take a bit of time saving up to, but shouldn't be needed until very late in the game.


I'd mulligan for Light of Valinor, as you really can't afford not to quest with Glorfindel in the start. At the same time you really don't want the threat-increase.

In the beginning you can quest with all, and with decent . You can allow some enemies to build up until you're ready for them, and then just clean house when you're ready.

It will probably work best in multiplayer as you don't that often get multiple enemies in solo. The partner obviously also needs low threat, and high woulde be nice. However, with decent , and some location- and treachery-control, it should work ok in solo as well. You can allow enemy build-up when it suits you, also after the start, to get the most out of the decks combat-tricks.

As it hopefully should work in solo as well I wouldn't quite call it a fellowship, but I've created a potential partner-deck found here: https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/10151/partner-deck-defend-once-kill-many-1.0.

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