Hasty Adventurers 1.0

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That's the first time I have seen that combo used and it looks legit. Well done! Location control never goes out of style. I've been using Northern Tracker and Steed of Imaldris in the most recent cycle to good effect. Getting multiple uses out of those cards in a single round seem worth the inclusion of these cards.

I do love me some jank. If you wanted to get even more exhausts out of Arwen, there's always the old standby Spare Hood and Cloak trick, too. (Put one hood on Arwen, one on someone else who is not questing, commit Arwen to the quest, and then have the two characters trade cloaks. It gets you an extra exhaust every round without otherwise changing the board state.)

Also, one of the Spirit Hobbit heroes might work for the jank. Hobbits get the benefit of a Hobbit Pony as a repeatable replacement to Late Adventurer, and they get Elevenses as a second means of de-committing them from the quest. They'd really only work with the Steed of Imladris, though.

For some serious jank, I had a deck that tossed a Hobbit Pony and two Fast Hitches on Merry. I'd commit him to the quest and ready him. When the first enemy was revealed, I'd use his ability. When the second enemy was revealed, I'd use a Don't Be Hasty to ready him immediately, (because it's the only readying effect that is a response instead of an action), then trigger his ability a second time. Then I'd use my second fast hitch to ready him again and use the Hobbit Pony to commit him back to the quest. (The deck was built before the latest pack, but for the coup de grâce, you could end it all by dropping an Elevenses and removing him from the quest again.)

I started building this deck around Hobbits and Hobbit Pony because it's repeatable but, as you say, Steed of Imladris is the only card that benefits. This deck really needs more draw, at present this is at least a 3 card combo: Don't Be Hasty + Late Adventurer + Nenya (for the Lore icon), at which point you can at least use it on Theodred. Really you want to be using it on the tracker though, so 4-card combo. I've played it several times and sometimes you just get unlucky, with all of your Don't Be Hasty (or some other component) are in the bottom half of your deck. Beravor or some other card draw specialist can sub in here, probably for Galadriel (but then it's harder to buy Spirit!)

Oh, and Galadriel actually does work against you just a little bit, since you can't exhaust a character to quest on the round when they enter play (only impact Arwen, and you can still use Don't Be Hasty, you just lose the readying benefit). So swapping her out for a Lore character like Elrond is also a possibility.