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| Fate of Wilderland | 15 | 8 | 0 | 1.0 |
| Banjo Kazooie (Con of the Rings) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 |
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| The Brown Wizard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 |
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MDuckworth83 3765
I've pretty much been playing Radagast non-stop since the hero came out in Fate of Wilderland, and this is the deck I have landed on after lots and lots of playtesting. It's performed quite well, being able to beat several nightmare quests and all 3 scenarios in the new Shadows of the East expansion in solo. I think that is a satisfactory resume.
This is a very fast deck that can hit the ground running on turn 1, as Radagast and Éowyn can quest for 6 and then Radagast and Grimbeorn the Old can defend two solid enemies and potentially kill one.
Radagast's Staff is very important to this deck as it becomes the primary resource engine by playing creature allies for cheap or free, which means you will want to mulligan for it. The "card advantage" engine primarily consists of Word of Command, which you can conveniently use Radagast for after he quests without exhausting to grab whatever tool you need at the moment. This capability allows me to include a lot of 1x copies of situational useful cards without having to stack the deck with them. Messenger Raven and Wizard Pipe combo with each other to ensure you effectively draw two cards a turn, plus have a consistent cheap ally to play and trigger Radagast. Once you get setup and catch a break from the encounter deck, you can play Glamdring for further card draw. I can't stress enough how important Word of Command is for finding that Gwaihir's Debt, Glamdring, or Song of Wisdom or whatever odd situational card you need at the moment. It can also be used to find an essential card that bad luck has buried, like the staff. Daeron's Runes and The Eagles Are Coming! thin your deck out and get essential allies in your hand as well. Just don't play "Eagles" until your hand is empty of them or you have a high risk of whiffing.
Grimbeorn and Radagast can almost single handedly deal with early combat until you start putting eagle allies on the table. Once you get Eagles of the Misty Mountains built up to +3-4 and ; and play one or more copies of Support of the Eagles on Grimbeorn, you can essentially deal with any enemy the game throws at you and then some. Don't forget that Radagast's staff can also be used to ready your 2/6/6 Misty Mountain Eagles!
The one potential weakness of this deck is that it can stall a bit on mid to late game questing. This is usually not a problem if you try to keep your 2 willpower allies in play. Of course you have the Meneldor and Flight of the Eagles combo to avoid staging threat lock. This also has the side benefit of potentially netting you a powerful Eagle of the North as an encounter draw, but that is a less reliable ancillary benefit.
This deck has been immensely fun to play, which is why I've spent a month playing and tweaking it. I think Radagast is the most interesting hero to build decks around that has been introduced in several cycles, and the power of his ability to use Word of Command easily has an enormous potential for lots of janky combo decks. If you want to get your first taste of Radagast before trying a less intuitive build with him, this is the deck to play.
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Aug 27, 2019Great deck! I too have been really enjoying playing The Brown Wizard but pairing him up with Boromir and Legolas (with support of the Eagles and a couple of Rohan Warhorses for battle questing) instead. |
Aug 27, 2019
Grimbeorn, on the other hand, can slow you down a bit at the start. Using his resource can hamstring getting your early board state set up a bit. Once you get set up though, Grimbeorn can quickly turn into a monster that essentially murders everything that he even defends. Both are great heroes that are similar, but I think Beorn is optimal in aggro quests and Grimbeorn in longer, turtling quests. It's why I also published my Fate variant at the same time. |
Aug 27, 2019
Your deck sounds cool but I'd be a bit hesitant making a solo deck with less than 6 starting willpower. I assume the concept is that Legolas gets multiple buffed attacks and makes up for lack of questing by killing things and putting lots of progress on the board? |
Aug 27, 2019Exactly right, Legolas with two Rohan warhorses can drop 6 progress by himself each round as long as there are enemies to stay. I really try to make sure I have EotMM, Meneldor, and or some Gandalf in my opening hand. |
Aug 27, 2019Thank you for this! Can't wait to try it. |
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Feb 02, 2021Over a year later and I still am loving this deck! |
Oct 16, 2024Wow this deck is so much fun :) Any idea which hero can replace Eowyn? Since she is part of the other deck my game partner runs. Maybe there is an option that would also fit the lore/wilds/nature style of the deck? Definitely one of my favourite decks so far. Thank you very much |
Oct 16, 2024would add 3 Wilyador i think the Glamdring and Support of the Eagles are not really necessary, there is enough fighting. early Grimbeorn the Old (or Beorn in the other deck) and Éowyn can handle and later a heavyly buffed Eagles of the Misty Mountains the Wilyador is good for cheap boosting the Eagles of the Misty Mountains and also very good for The Eagles Are Coming! have playd whole ered mithrin-cycle with a radagast-eagledeck.
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Awesome deck! I run a very similar one that has Beorn in it instead of Grimbeorn. It’s also very fun to play. I’m pretty sure this one rocks as well :)