Galdor and the Knights of the Ring 1.0

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nice use of galdor, nice grey wanderer. i should try it. what about hidden cache and ered luin miner? (for good tale they count as 3)

Thanks. Ered Luin Miner would be really nice for AVGT with their printed cost of 3, and the Ithilien Lookouts do much the same with their 3 cost Secrecy 2. You can play them for 1 and use them to a Tale, ideally with a 5 Cost ally because then you can grab a 4+4 cost duo.

That said, I'm not sure what I'd drop to be able to squeeze the Miners or Caches into the deck, especially given that the only way they'd be discarded from the deck would be during Tale-Telling, I think. Though, maybe that's enough to be worthwhile, I must confess I have no experience with Mining Decks.

Thanks for the suggestions, @doomguard!

Unfortunately, I did a bunch of Quest Logging for this deck back in February and March, before publishing it, and it looks like the previous-logged quests don't also publish. This is my first time publishing a deck, after a discussion on the FFG boards expressed interest in seeing this deck.

Here's a summary of its quests so far, I was initially trying to see if it could be a Gray Wanderer "The One Deck" and run most of the gamut of quests, setting aside of course Escape from Dol Goldur. It's made it through Mirkwood, Dwarrowdelf, and Heirs of Numenor so far, but I set it down for other decks. The downside of this one is that it's very repetitive and just tries to approach every quest-related challenge as a "throw ally stats at it!" kind of solution.

1.1 - Passage Through Mirkwood - Beaten, 1st Attempt

1.2 - Journey Down the Anduin - Beaten, 1st Attempt

1.3 - Escape from Dol Goldur - n/a

1.4 - Hunt for Golloum - Beaten, 1st Attempt

1.5 - Conflict at the Carrock - Beaten, 1st Attempt

1.6 - A Journey to Rhosgobel - Beaten, 1st Attempt

1.7 - Hills of Emyn Muil - Beaten, 1st Attempt

1.8 - Dead Marshes - Beaten, 1st Attempt

1.9 - Return to Mirkwood - Beaten, 1st Attempt

2.1 - Into the Pit - Beaten, 5th Attempt

2.2 - The Seventh Level - Beaten, 1st Attempt

2.3 - Flight from Moria - Beaten, 1st Attempt

2.4 - The Redhorn Gate - Beaten, 3rd Attempt

2.5 - The Road to Rivendell - Beaten, 1st Attempt

2.6 - The Watcher in the Water - Beaten, 2nd Attempt

2.7 - The Long Dark - Beaten, 1st Attempt

2.8 - Foundations of Stone - Beaten, 2nd Attempt

2.9 - Shadow and Flame - Beaten, 3rd Attempt

3.1 - Peril in Pelargir - Beaten, 1st Attempt

3.2 - Into Ithilien - Beaten, 1st Attempt

3.3 - Siege of Cair Andros - Beaten, 3rd Attempt

i would put in the miners for the bears. once at hand, the bears are dead cards, and o.k. they are good in fighting, but you will pile up enough attack during the time. at leasts 2 bears for 2 miner wouldbe my version.

@doomguard The bears are playable from hand, since the Gray Wanderer contract lets the first non-unique card you play each round not require a sphere match. So you can pay-to-play bears in any round. I find their ability to self-ready and then return to hand to be invaluable, as this allows them to "heal" so they are great archery sponges. And, you can use the self-ready to let them tell two Tales in the same round, where hopefully they fish two other big allies from the deck before returning to hand to be played again.

I think I'd actually jettison Haldir and another ally before the Bears. One could also get rid of the second Song of Kings, I suppose, but having a back-up is nice since so much stuff can discard attachments. But I suppose it's less crucial now, I built this deck back when Set-Up stuff was all resolved in Step 7 of set-up instead of Step 2, so having a back-up Song of Kings was crucial in case you drew your other copy into your starting hand. Since it seems like the consensus is shifting back toward this set-up stuff being in Step 2 of set-up again.

is it really needed to heal them so costly? i would think there are so many allies with some wounds, that ist not needed to heal the bears. specially if you be faster because of possible ered luin. if you have a different lets say 4-cost-ally and a ered luin instead of a bear, seems to be + for me. o.k. the bear if you take him back is worth 1 cost mor for a tale, but you spare 4 res that can be put into a new ally.

by the way, the bear goes not back into Hand, it is shuffled into your deck if you use his ability.

but you can use him with Sneak attack and use him twice for the tale and then take him back in the Hand (both end of Phase you can choose). if this matters much, then i can understand it, but i am not shure if sooo many tales are played, that it matters much. and if the Sneak attack is not better be done with gandalf.

Ah, good correction, thanks! The bear's ability shuffles them back into the deck, while Sneaking them lets them self-ready and still go into hand. It's been months since I've actually put this deck on the table, so a little rusty.

Still, I've frequently had the deck run out of cards with this deck, so it's not inconceivable that returning a bear to the deck really just means you draw them next turn. It is indeed a costly way to heal them, but in quests with a ton of archery, it can be helpful. I wouldn't shuffle them back in solely to heal them, but that can be an added perk on top of readying them anyways for something else (Tales or clawing two enemies or something). This deck can pretty quickly run out of cards in the deck and in the hand that are worth playing, so having to replay a Bear each turn isn't always that inconvenient (since you can't do anything else with the Resources at that point anyways). If the deck ran Blood of Numenor / Gondorian Fire or something, yea probably not.

if your deck emptys to fast, consider dwarfen pipes, and then the ered luin miner makes even more sense (your only dwarf is gimli)

another card to consider: soldier of erebor ringsdb.com he is also doubleusuable for the tale

this version made carn dum: ringsdb.com

If you want the quest logs to be linked, you have to publish the deck first. Then put in the quest logs. You could delete the ones you made earlier and remake them so they show up linked if you want. Your summary of games works too.

no thx would just add that this deck in a quite different version handle one of the hardest quests

@doomguard Sorry I was referring to @Imrahil13's Aug 5, 2020 comment. I should have been more specific considering the long dialogue here.