Silvan With Mirror 1.0

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• 1.0

Plays like your typical Silvan deck. Bounce your silvans but at the same time you will be building up a lot of ranged. This deck plays well in both single player and multiplayer. It also doesn't have Stewards because I have other decks and wanted to make a deck that doesn't have to have sneak/Gandalf or Stewards.

---Opening Hand---

You want to Mulligan for Mirror of Galadriel. That card helps getting all your other important cards into play. Eventually you want Nenya, Silver Harp, and O Lorien into play.

Nenya helps by allowing you to play The Tree People and helping with questing. You can still play green silvans with Thranduil's ability if you don't get the ring right away.

Once you are setup, you can be getting 3 cards a turn, and fishing for cards you need with mirror/harp. WIth Magic Ring on Galadriel you can be helping with questing and card draw. It also can pitch in for some more mana if you need it.

---Strategy---

You don't have to get mirror and Harp combo right away. You can afford to throw away some cards the first few turns. You even have a few ways to get them back into the deck Galadhrim Weaver and Orophin. Getting O Lorien out first is a big priority. Use the tree people to upgrade your silvans. Galion is such an awesome candidate for this.

I used to run red Aragorn in my silvan deck because I think the red silvans are some of the best and help with combat. Having red silvans means you are going to have a lot of ranged support for multiplayer. It's easy to be assisting people for 4-6 damage mid game and 9-14 end game. Thranduil has replaced Aragorn and it's been a good change. I now have 2 purple heroes so getting Greenwood Archer into my deck is possible. But the best thing about him is his ability.

Being able to resource smooth and play red/green silvans is great. Every red silvan works better being played in the combat phase. I used to never get the -2 shield to work because our group would clear enemies each round. Now I can directly affect the revealed encounter cards by playing the red silvans in combat.

Magic Ring is a card that works well in this deck. We have lots of threat reduction to help offset it's penelty. The mirror helps offset the fact that you can only have 1 in your deck (so finding it is easy). It helps with mana acceleration. The untap on Galadriel means I can be using both draw/Nenya.

---Final Thoughts---

This deck has been a blast to play in both solo and group play. It's always interesting and doesn't feel broken. At the same time it probably could be even better with stewards (but I'm not willing to remove them from my other decks). As such the deck performs well. There are other silvan decks without the mirror and after giving them a try I came to the conclusion, that I really enjoy being able to pick a card I need. It makes my deck more of a control / range assist in group play. But it can tank/kill on it's own as well.