Grey Wanderer Path of Need 1.0

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• 1.0

This is a ridiculous deck that can be extremely powerful in a 3 or 4 player game. You want to start the game with Strider, Mirror of Galadriel or Nenya in your opening hand. Then from there you can pull one of the other three with The Grey Wanderer. You want Silver harp early to pair with mirror of Galadriel. This combo is what keeps the deck moving every turn. You want Resourceful's to come early. Use Galadriel's ability on yourself to start each round until mid game or late game when you can start giving it to other players if desired. When you have a Resourceful or two on Galadriel with Mirror of Galadriel and Silver Harp, you have your setup. Nenya and Strider are just there to help in the early rounds while you don't do much else. Ideally your teammates have sentinel and ranged somewhere if you have to engage something. You really don't want to engage enemies ever with this deck.

Now is when the fun starts. You need to find Path of Need. You may be able to discard it with Mirror of Galadriel or you may be able to just play it from your hand if you have the Song of Kings attachment already in play. If discarded, you can play it using Reforged. After you play it, put it on a location that's available. This could be on the active location or a location you will be traveling to (assuming you quest successfully or someone else has a trick to switch locations). From this point, heros don't exhaust to quest, attack, or defend. So sentinel heros like Beregond and Erkenbrand can defend everything around the board and ranged heros can attack every character around the board. After the attachment is discarded, you have several ways to bring it back in. Galadhrim Weaver can potentially bring it back if it's the top card on your discard pile or you can use Reforged to keep bringing it back again and again that way. Desperate Alliance is in this deck as a trick card or bailout card. If you have to engage an enemy and don't have answers, use Desperate Alliance and give your hero to someone else. This way undefended attacks have no where to put their damage as you have no hero to assign damage to during this phase. Galadriel can also be given to another player to use her mirror for digging for cards in their deck (if you haven't already used it that round). Will of the West is there to help shuffle in anyone's discard if something gets discarded that's needed and Gather Information is generally just there to help find Path of Need. Note that you cannot use The Grey Wanderer to play Steward of Gondor so you will need Song of Kings to get that into play.

This deck will shine in games that are long. 10 or more rounds of play with 3 or 4 players is where this deck is most powerful. Be reminded that having sentinel and ranged somewhere in the other players decks is very important to making the whole thing go. Keep your threat low and have fun making your teammates decks so much more powerful. Enjoy!