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Concept
This deck tries to assemble the original fellowship. Well, every character which is on the Fellowship contract.
I think for now, there are two generic strategies to do so. First, using Gandalf hero. But as there is no Aragorn ally the starting threat would be quite high. This counteracts with most hobbit cards. Second, a leadership/tactics aproach. In these spheres you can find all characters.
So I went with that.
Most Hobbit cards have that "lower threat than your engaged enemy" theme. This is with what I went with. That is also why I did not use Gandalf from the Hobbit box.
How to play
Basically, you want all the allies as fast as possible. But this will take some time. Until then, cards like Staff of Lebethron and Hobbit Cloak are a good starting hand.
After the first one or two rounds you typically will have purple resources to spare. Use these to fuel Frodos ability and ready Aragorn.
Sneak Attack and Gandalf for either card draw or threat reduction.
When having a Sneak Attack and an ally on your hand you can easily chump block with the very same ally, then play Sneak Attack to bring the ally temporally into play (for the contract) and play the ally next round regulary to fullfill the contract again.
A similar strategy is when having Gandalf on your hand. Chump block (if having 9 characters in play), then play him via Sneak Attack (draw 3 cards to get allies) and if you do not have drawn the right ally just play Gandalf again.
Sword that was Broken and Rivendell Bow are not that much needed for the core strategy, but they do fit very well. Anyhow, the willpower of this deck is quite high (because of allies and Friends of Frieds) and that bow is quite useless in single player. So, if you want to swap out cards these would be those to go with.
When set up, you quest with Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, Gimli, Merry and Pippin (13 willpower plus another 2 from Friend of Friends plus 6 from Sword that was Broken and another 6 from the contract = 27). After that you can fight with Aragorn, Sam, Gimli, Bill, Boromir, Legolas and Pippin. Quite nice, I think.
Critical comments
The addition of A Very Good Tale and The Gathering Storm were my last changes to the deck. Before that, it took me round about 9 rounds to get 9 allies to the table. This is a major downside of the deck.
To be multiplayer friendly, I did not add the Steward of Gondor. This might speed up the deck. Also, my impression is, that this deck could use more cards draw and more resource smoothing. (Boromir and Legolas are quite expensive with just one red hero.)
Sideboard
The cards in the sideboard are somewhat of an overload to the deck but would be fitting. So in the future, one or two of these might slip back in the deck.