Journey in the Dark/B 1.0

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This deck and its companion deck (Journey in the Dark/A) were built as paired decks to play the Journey in the Dark quest in The Road Darkens campaign box thematically. There are no mounts, eagles or other things that would not find their way into the Mines of Moria. Allies were limited to those people that our heroes in the Mines might have thought about during this adventure. Starting hand should have A Test of Will as there are some nasty treacheries that can ruin your day early. Also good to have are Athelas to get rid of the Burden conditions, Steward of Gondor and Celebrían's Stone. If you can get both Steward and the Stone and play them on the second turn on Aragorn, you can make progress much more quickly. You'll also need Blood of Númenor on Aragorn before the Balrog starts attacking, and Heed the Dream and Ancient Mathom can help get through the deck to find it. Most attachments are not restricted and the bulk of them go on Aragorn (I didn't see the Anduril Boon on the cardlist here, but it was also in the deck). . Gimli was buffed up with a couple of Dúnedain Warnings, so he became a defender for the lighter weight enemies. He could ready Legolas with the Mirkwood Long-knifeon him swinging for 5. It took me ten tries and then 13 turns to beat the Journey in the Dark with these paired decks, but it was pretty cool to do it with thematic decks. It was so thematic that when The Great Bridge was explored, the Balrog needed exactly 14 damage, a perfect match for Gandalf's threat to finish him off.