Defender of Rivendell

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This is a revised version of the White Council deck I published a few days ago. I took out Galadriel and put in Arwen Undómiel. She works so much better in this deck with her extra resource. And the deck needed a faster beginning considering the initial high threat. Now you can play Treebeard on round 1 and start producing Ent tokens immediately in round 2. I also made several other changes. I left some cut cards on the sideboard for people's consideration.

This deck is good for:

  • Questing
  • Defensing
  • Attacking

This deck may have problems with:

Would love to hear any comments on the list!

Enjoy!


Sphere Manipulation

  • Elrond can be used to pay for . and allies. Once he gets Vilya he can also pay for any type of cards.

  • Gandalf can pay for any , , and card that's at the top of your deck.

  • Gandalf can also pay for any card once he gets Narya.

Card Draw and Deck Manipulation


Resource Management

  • Arwen Undómiel gives you +1 resource per turn by discarding a card from your hand. Elven-light is the main target hence the 3 copies.

  • Use Gandalf's Staff for +1 resource per turn.

  • Wizard Pipe and Vilya guarantee a free card every turn.

  • Treebeard produces +1 resource every turn, that can be used for playing Ents or readying them.

  • If you add a Hidden Cache you can have +2 resources every turn as follows: (1) Put the Hidden Cache at the top of your deck with the Wizard Pipe (preferably before questing). (2) Quest & "guess" the top card. (3) Then with Expert Treasure-hunter discard the Hidden Cache. (4) Expert Treasure-hunter instructs you to take the discarded card into your hand, so this way you get Hidden Cache back. (5) Repeat. NOTE: Just remember that Wizard Pipe is an action and therefore must be used during an action window. The most optimal time to use Wizard Pipe would be during the action window before resolving the quest (you can also prepare it during the planning phase).

Readying

  • Unexpected Courage goes on Elrond in order to either defend twice in a turn or defend and play something for free with Vilya. He also gets the Light of Valinor in order to quest without exhausting. If you have a second one use it on Gandalf instead of Arwen Undómiel, because the latter is mainly a quester.

  • Gandalf also gets Shadowfax. If he gets also Unexpected Courage he can do a lot especially with Narya in play.

  • In late game you can use Treebeard's resources to ready Ents or himself even to quest/defend/attach in one turn.

  • With Narya on Gandalf you can ready up to two allies and boost them with +1 and +1 .

Questing

  • Elrond is the first target for the Light of Valinor since he is also the main defender.

  • One way to get around the fact that Ents enter play exhausted is to use Narya to ready them. On that round, they will quest without exhausting (because of Galadriel's passive ability and will be used as defenders or attackers depending on the situation.

  • The 3 heroes alone give you 9 . Wellinghall Preserver is amazing for questing as well with an additional 3 for every copy.

Combat - Defense


Combat - Attack


Healing

  • Elrond's passive ability allows an additional +1 heal for every heal effect in play.

  • With Elrond, the Warden of Healing heals two allies for 2 (that's 8 heal if both copies are in play)

  • With Elrond, the Wellinghall Preserver heals 2 from an end when he readies at the end of the turn (that's 4 heal if both copies are in play)

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2 comments

Oct 20, 2018 Rouxxor 1742

Hi, I use to play a lot Elrond, and for many times now Elrond+Gandalf. The solo version of the deck play the same line-up but with a different decklist: ringsdb.com

First of all I don't get the 2x vilya. I name the deck after it so I will probably manage place to 6of them if this was authorized. The second one can anyway be using with Arwen ability. I will apply the same logic with light of valinor.

To me, we absolutely don't need any draw in this deck. With Gandalf we manage to play everything from top. So I have put away treasure expert, master of forge and other elven-light. I rather play imladris stargazer, who help me to find vilya if I don't find it in my beginning hand, daeron's rune who improve my starting hand for no resources (it is the best card of the game, Quality advantage for free). I also prefer to produce more resource using steward of gondor played from top with Gandalf or vilya.

With all that set-up I then can play the best allies of the game. Elfhelm who reduce my threat in the most problematic scenario, Jubayr who automaticly cancel a shadow each turn, firyal who allow me to control the encounter, henemarth who do the same for different cases.

Building a ent deck with Elrond+vilya is possible, probably weaker but not bad. It still need more attachment in x3, daeron's rune, steward (that can even be played with Narya help) and no elven light because I don't see any reason why the core of the deck must change.

Have fun playing the deck. I personally enjoy it very much, it is my best solo deck, the one can get any nightmare.

Oct 20, 2018 Gandalf_2077 67

@Rouxxor thanks for the tips! I got some really good ideas from your comment and will adjust the deck accordingly.