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dalestephenson 1741
This deck is not creative at all, it is a crowdsourced Caldara deck.
My procedure was as follows -- I analyzed decks with Caldara to see what the most likely hero lineup would be. The most likely lineup was matching her with discarding spirit heroes Círdan the Shipwright and Arwen Undómiel. There were 38 decks with this lineup from different creators. Of those, 24 of the creators had their last version pre-errata, and a 25th created the deck post-errata but stated in notes that the errata would be ignored. There's meaningful differences in the deck composition between pre-errata and post-errata Caldara, so I analyzed those 25 decks.
To turn that information into a deck, I then used the median count to apportion card slots to the most popular choices in each category, trying to use the most popular count for each until I ran out of space. I also limited the cards to a single core set, with one exception -- Fortune or Fate. 24 of 25 decks had three copies of that card despite being a 1x card in the core, and it's an essential property of the deck. For those who don't have three core sets, feel free to proxy Fortune or Fate with any convenient binder fodder.
The end result should be a stereotypical (pre-errata) Caldara Deck -- one that only includes cards that others have used the most (by percentage, not raw count) in their own Caldara decks with this lineup. If you want the typical Caldara experience and are willing to ignore the errata, this may be a good fit -- and if it's not, don't blame me, blame the committee! If you aren't willing to ignore the errata, blame Caleb and play something else!
For maximum Caldara effect, you want Prince Imrahil in play and/or Sword-thain on a unique character -- Emery is a popular choice because she can be played for free while discarding three cards, if you have Emery and Sword Thain in your opening hand, you can discard Caldara on turn one to get three allies from the five cards in the discard -- with luck, one of them is Imrahil, so when you bring back Caldara with Fortune & Fate you can discard her again for four allies. Rinse and repeat with the aid of Dwarven Tomb and Map of Earnil.
Historically, the errata hit after the release of Mountain of Fire and Black Serpent, so using this deck while ignoring Caldara's once-per-game errata would be valid progression play through those quests.