Keep Quiet, Sam, Lest They Notice! 1.0

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Stryder and Sam dart into the brush, fully aware that they are severely outnumbered by the enemy. No matter, powerful friends are not far behind, and they hold the advantage of surprise....

I'm not an expert deck-builder by any means, but this definitely tested my abilities. It's my first time building a two-hero deck and it took a while to figure out how it might all come together while not being completely worse than a simpler, more orthodox deck type. The main idea here is that you aren't really playing your main allies, but rather that you bring them in via Sneak Attack, A Very Good Tale and Timely Aid when you really need them, taking advantage of the start threat of 20 to get the secrecy discount. Without a doubt, Timely Aid and Resourceful are the cards you want to mulligan for.

You'll notice that you really don't get to stay in secrecy for long, which is why we're using Aragorn to reset threat back even if you're not particularly high in threat level. Better yet is to utilize the fact that this is a small party of heroes who can Vanish from Sight, should they wish! If you don't have the cards you need, it's worthwhile to Sneak Attack Gandalf for the card draw, or for extra threat reduction if you already have the secrecy cards you need. Since half the deck is events, it's probably a good idea to name events whenever you use Expert Treasure-hunter to get some extra card draw.

I'll be playing this deck alongside Michael's Lore Tactics ent deck, which also starts at low threat and builds gradually; I think the mix will work rather well!