Stride is Long and Breath is Deep

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Warden of Arnor 5768

A Fellowship deck built around the unique Ent allies. Inevitably a lot of how to play the deck is obvious - you want to draw and play the Ents as fast as possible, taking advantage of Elf-stones, A Good Harvest and Treebeard to afford them more easily. The rest is just for powering up, enabling and general utility.

Surprisingly, given the synergy between Ents and damage, Glorfindel is actually key to the function of the deck, because unlike Ioreth, he can partially heal an Ent rather than fully healing them, keeping them healthy but still allowing boosts on Leaflock and full impact from The Dam Bursts.

Works in solo and multiplayer as it's pretty decent all-round once it gets going. In multiplayer some sideboarding and adjustments to how you play can allow you to focus more on questing or combat as the situation demands.

https://wardenofarnor.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/deck-stride-is-long-and-breath-is-deep/

3 comments

Aug 21, 2020 doomguard 1963

its obvious u are very theme-heavy. nevertheless, it seems to me, it would not lessens the theme if you add the ally pippin. he is a hobbit, you have already hobbits and hobbits and ents in intheme.

why? you have exactly 6 allys. you need every of them to fullfill the contract. it would increase the probability to fullfill the contract, having more allys that fits. for 3 pippin i would discard 1 dam burst 1 stone of elostirion and 1 asfaloth.

Aug 22, 2020 pirinisz 30

Your deck seems very interesting, but I would swap Merry with Éowyn, both 6 starting threat. I agree with @doomguardas far as allies are concerned, maybe you could reduce the number of each ally to 2 (instead of 3) and add 2-3 more unique allies. By the way, why don't you use Vilya with Elrond?

Aug 22, 2020 Warden of Arnor 5768

@piriniszÉowyn is great, but she's not a Hobbit, so she doesn't enable The Dam Bursts - as I explained in the blog post.

Reducing the number of copies of the allies would go completely against the point of the deck, which is not just to activate the Fellowship, it's to get specifically all the Ents as part of the Fellowship. Gléowine is the only one who's negotiable. If the consistency is a concern I'd rather just put in more draw.

As for Vilya, I considered it, but I have no means of setting it up so it'd be far to likely to misfire and just waste Elrond's stats for a round.