Snow White, and the 7 Dwarves

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UKDane 13

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

4 comments

Oct 12, 2020 Emmental 405

Interesting idea !

You could also consider a Fellowship because 7 dwarves + Snow-white + a hunter = 9 characters.

You are looking for a Guarded attachment, maybe one The Arkenstone ? It's the perfect gem for a group of minig dwarves

I don't know if a Steward of Gondor would really be usefull. You don't seem to need a lot of ressources.

For threat reduction Well Warned is a low-cost choice. Favor of the Valar could also be a no-sphere replacement for Gandalf. But with Galadriel your threat should not rise a lot except in dommed-heavy quests.

I'm questionning your choice of allies. Why thoses dwarves ? There are some of the worst uniques here. Also the mining is a bit lacking imo.

Oct 12, 2020 UKDane 13

@Emmental Thanks.

Fellowship could indeed be an interesting choice.

I agree about The Arkenstone, but I am worried about the Threat level. I take your point about Steward of Gondor. And I can see the idea behind including Favor of the Valar.

Well Warned is an excellent choice, that I will consider adding to the next version of this deck. I've found with playing Galadriel (in my other deck), that early game, she keeps the threat/round balance, but once Nenya is attached, she is more useful for questing.

Good suggestions, thanks.

Allies

I selected those 7 dwarves, because when I looked at all the dwarves available, and their abilities, those are the ones that appeared to me to have the more useful abilities. Keep into mind the limitations of the contract.

But like I said I'm totally open to suggestions for improvements, particularly in strengthening the selection of the dwarves, and the reasoning behind different choices.

Re mining, I assume you mean mining the deck for cards, as opposed to the ability for those dwarves to mine the hills ;-)

Speaking of which, maybe Miner of the Iron Hills would be a more useful ally, although it isn't unique, so wouldn't work with a Fellowship contract.

I was thinking maybe Ring of Thrór for a guarded poisoned apple.

Oct 13, 2020 nelloianiro 995

@Emmentaland @UKDaneare right, Fellowship would work great. It would really beef up your allies. I would remove E.R.K and Bombur and add Fili and Kili, so you can get both quicker.

Oct 13, 2020 Emmental 405

@UKDane i had an idea with The Grey Wanderer contract : ringsdb.com

You replace Arwen with Galadriel when the queen poisons her, and then your goal is to bring back Hero Arwen using Ally Arwen, Sword-Thain and Thorongil^^