Pay Ressources to play allies from hand? How Boring! 1.0

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You know how an typical ally spam deck works: You draw allies, play them in the planning phase, and build up a strong board over time. A very effective strategy, but not really interesting. If you tired of this you might take a look at this deck.

It Plays 29 allies, but in a typical game you play around TWO of them the normal way. The rest? It's all cheating and bouncing. Between Lothíriel and Prince Imrahil you will put two allies into play every round, one for questing and one for combat. You can even cheat more big allies in with help from Sneak Attack, Horns! Horns! Horns! and Elfhelms abilty. If you use one of those effects in the combat phase you can play A Very Good Tale with this ally and the one from Imrahill and get two more allies.

The allies can be divided into 4 types:

• Allies to put in with Lothiriel: Escort from Edoras for huge questing and Rohirrim Scout to keep enemies in the staging area for Éomer. Those two are good recycling targets for Gúthwinë.
• Allies for Imrahill: Beorn for a lot of attack and Háma for multiple defenses, who can also be recycled if you have a way to cheat him in from hand. You will chump quite a lot with the Imrahill ally because you don' t have a main defender.
• Most of the other allies are great for Lothiriel and Imrahill, having decent willower or being able to work as a chump (altough a lot have high enough defense to not be actually destroyed and are shuffled back in).The extra ressource from Envoy of Pelargir is always nice and Faramir can kill enemies you softened up with Eomer.
• Elfhelm and Gandalf you want to cheat in with other ways, they are great to feed your Very Good Tales.

Mulligan for Gúthwinë or Horn of the Mark to get enough allies to use with Lothiriel. Because you don't play your allies regulary you don't need as much card draw and you can use ressources to use Eomers and Imrahills abilty or can hold Lothiriels back for A Test of Will. At the end you might have a lot on her so you can sometimes hardcast a Gandalf.

This is not the deck that makes the best use of Éomer snipping ability, he's mainly in here to give Leadership acces for the events and the Rohan trait to Lothiriel. The Rohirrim Scouts make him still decent.