Balin, At Your Service

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James 86

A Mono-Leadership Gondor (well, mostly) swarm deck that I used with good success against Flight of the Stormcaller.

Denethor gets:

In Service of the Steward is for Balin, so you can pass resources to him for shadow cancellation, and to get the +1 from Visionary Leadership.

More than once I've managed to get 6 allies into play on the first round with a combination of A Very Good Tale, Herald of Anórien (from hand) and Envoy of Pelargir netting me an extra resource to play with. If you get a Tome of Atanatar then even better!

Strength of Arms has been a game-winner for me, being able to commit characters to sailing + questing and then have everyone ready to attack makes for a huge round.

The deck is a little light on card draw. Rod does help, as does Gandalf but once I came to my senses and went with the Dawn Star (extra card per resource phase for 3 threat, or the 'Bilbo Boat' as I like to call it) that shouldn't be a problem for this quest.

3 comments

May 16, 2016 mndela 411

Very good and powerfull deck. Cheers

Jul 20, 2016 Beorn 14084

Herald of Anórien is so good in this style of deck. I like how you use Balin here to cover for one of Gondor's weaknesses (shadow cancelation).

Jul 22, 2016 James 86

Thanks for the nice comments guys. :)

Something that would probably help with card draw that's only just occurred to me is King Under the Mountain. I think I was probably too focused on the Gondor theme to consider it.