A Stereotypical Fastred Deck 1.0

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This deck is not creative at all, it is a crowdsourced Fastred deck.

Fastred has two dominant natural partners, Dúnhere and Éomer. When I checked there were slightly more Dunhere/Fastred decks than Eomer/Fastred decks, so I chose Dunhere for Fastred's stereotypical decks. I will generate a LeEomer deck later.

I looked at all the decks with Dunhere and Fastred to see what the most used hero was with them. The most popular hero unsurprisingly turned out to be Éowyn. Besides being a thematic match, she checks all the boxes for a Dunhere/Fastred deck -- low threat, great willpower, and access to tactics for weapons and armor. I analyzed decks from 19 different creators using this lineup.

To turn my analysis into a deck, I used the median deck card count to apportion card slots to the most popular choices in each category, trying to use the most popular count for each individual card until I ran out of space. I also limited the cards to a single core set.

The end result should be a stereotypical Fastred deck -- one that only includes cards that others have used the most (by percentage, not raw count) in their own decks with this lineup. If you want the typical Fastred experience, this may be a good fit -- and if it's not, don't blame me, blame the committee!

The basic strategy of a Fastred/Dunhere deck is simple -- Fastred pops enemies back into staging (lowering threat while doing so), and Dunhere kills them there. Since Fastred starts with just 3/3 defense and Dunhere starts with only 3 attack in staging, getting help for them is priority one, look for at least two of Arwen Undómiel, tactics attachments and Open the Armory in your opening hand. Weapons are higher priority than armor, as they can be used to trigger Foe-hammer and the enemies you are forced to engage early are likely to be less dangerous.

One card that didn't make the stereotypical deck due to limited sample (I require at least two decks to contain a card) is worth special consideration because it fits so well-- Inner Strength with The One Ring. Reducing the threat limit to 45 is no danger to the threat-reducing Fastred deck, but bumping Fastred's defense to four and making him shadow immune on turn one makes Fastred practically bulletproof. There are only three decks right now using Fastred with the card, one with Dunhere, one with LeEomer, and one a three-hunter deck with Damrod and his traps. But over time I expect it to be as ubiquitous as Spear of the Mark for Fastred decks constructed with the current cycle.