Snow White, and the 7 Dwarves 1.0

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Once upon a time

This deck, is most definitely a deck that started with a name.

The idea was to select a female hero to represent Snow White, the allies must contain exactly 7 dwarves. The question remains what to do about the other two hero positions. Should they be two of the dwarves, and then limit the allies to just 5, or should Snow be accompanied by the Huntsman, or her Prince?

I'm thinking Snow should be represented by Galadriel allowing Mirror of Galadriel to represent the magic mirror, unless of course Galadriel represents the Evil Queen?

If that were the case, then Snow could be represented by Arwen Undómiel and the Huntsman by Aragorn.

The 7 dwavres are; Doc, Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, Grumpy, and Dopey. The 13 dwarves in the hobbit are; Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, and Thorin. So how to match up, and who to omit?

Two other elements that should be represented, are the poisoned apple, and the glass coffin. The poisoned apple, could be a card with guarded or doomed keywords. Currently I haven't included any of those.

Later that day

Using the Bond of Friendship, seemed to fit quite well thematically, with this group of 7 dwarves. The restrictions of the contract certainly make deck.building a fun challenge.

At the moment, I've gone with Argalad as my Huntsman, due to his effect, but I would consider changing him out with Elrond and then exchanging 2x A Good Harvest for 2x Vilya. The reason Elrond doesn't get the nod is because of the low number of Allies. I suppose the 2x Gandalf technically shouldn't be included, but I wanted a way to quickly lower threat, as the starting threat of this group is so high. I would've included a third Gandalf, but for the contract's limitation of max two copies of any card.

The other thing to consider if Elrond is added, is a way to heal characters, which this deck currently doesn't have. But as Elrond is currently in the sideboard, I'll leave that puzzle for a later date.

As mentioned above there aren't many allies in this deck. And that may be it's downfall. Looking at the spread of card types, clearly the 30 Event cards would need to be trimmed to make way for more allies. Especially if this deck were to come up against a quest that limits the ability to play Events.

Starting hand

Obviously Mirror of Galadriel and Nenya would be helpful. Steward of Gondor would help with resources early on, as would most of the attachments. The quicker you can find the allies, the better. But given that resources will be trickling in from the 4 different spheres, not having allies in the starting hand (with the exception of Erebor Record Keeper won't be a major issue, as it won't be possible to pay for them, until there is better resource management. So in the starting hand, I'm looking for cheap cards that will help with card draw, and increase resources.

Future considerations

Additional ways to bring down the starting threat, are currently a high priority. Until I play with this version, I won't know for sure what other weaknesses this deck suffers from.

Feel free to add your comments about what you would do differently, keeping into consideration: 1) the name of the deck 2) the Bond of Friendship contract 3) if you make card suggestions, please include what you would swap out, and your reason why you would swap it out.

Thanks