The purpose of this deck is twofold:
First, I want to give a massive round of applause to Boromore on the FFG Forum. Back on February 3, he posted his Scouring of the Shire custom scenario, which is amazing, with great new keywords, awesome side quests, and a very thematic and appropriate theme and design. He also has it set up where you can play it as the 19th (or 21st, what have you) scenario of the LOTR saga campaign. I would highly encourage you to print it out, and tell him what a great job he did. No one even replied on the forum! Here's the link: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/305329-the-scouring-of-the-shire/
Second, Silblade in his recent player card review (which is very thorough and well done) made a controversial statement. "How often do you include Songs in your decks? Well, I believe many of you play with Durin’s Song, a very good event for boosting Dwarves. So do I. BUT… does anybody from you have a deck built on the Song trait? I guess that nobody would answer 'yes'." https://visionofthepalantir.com/2020/03/21/player-card-review-the-long-dark/
I have attempted to prove him wrong! This deck is built around songs. I recently picked up Beneath the Sands, and decided to see how far I could take Fireside Song. Last night on my playthrough of Scouring of the Shire I had Frodo Baggins quest for 12!
I tried to keep this deck as thematic as possible to the events at the time of the scouring of the shire. I hope you will check out Boromore's work and leave any helpful comments! I'm still trying to learn and get better at our great game!
BTW, I have Temple of the Deceived en route! So excited!
This is a really cool deck! I've always been fascinated with trying to make a good hobbit song, but never could do it. Does it work well with other scenarios? Have you thought about adding Song of Healing?