Strength and Courage ft. Grimbeorn 1.0

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Strength and courage is just a crazy card and on Grimbeorm it’s nuts. Instant kill most things in the game

This might be the only Forth, The Three Hunters! deck I can see myself running...I've had literally zero luck with the contract so far.

Awesome build Seastan, love what you did here and Three Hunters is my favorite contract of the bunch (currently taking Gandalf, Spirit Legolas and Tactics Bormir through every quest in the game). Also I can speak to the power of Strength and Courage because I recently put together a Haldir Grey Wanderer deck that uses it and again for the same crazy high attack power without having to defend. Some awesome cards this last cycle for contracts and One Ring Attachments. I love the Firefoot + Grimbeorn combo and will definitely give that a go.

Well, what else to expect from that ancient bear driven by the power of The One Ring? Who will wrestle it off him before he gets completely out of hand?! Ok, I am building this deck to pair with my burgling Caldara deck - that should beat those neat Nightmare quests pretty well! And this deck makes room for the plethora of allies from the other.... Thanks, I look forward to the combo with Firefoot and the ring.

If you got War Axe, and then one free restricted attachment (any of Legacy Blade, Bow of Yew or Round Shield), and weren't too unlucky with shadow cards, then you could use Éowyn's resource to put Strength and Courage on, use Grimbeorn the Old's own resource for his ability, and then he could defend & then kill the Hill Troll by himself on round 1.

That's wild.

This deck looks fun! How viable would you consider swapping Lore out for Leadership in this deck? If you were to do so, which hero would you go with? Considering Sam Gamgee (low threat, and can consistently quest but remain versatile for times where an additional blocker/attacker may come in handy)...

@indiefan I think it could work. I'd probably go with Gildor Inglorion though. Only 1 more threat and in return you get reliable card draw. Sam's readying won't be needed, and with Strength and Courage accelerating your threat, won't trigger much either.

You could swap out the legacy blades for Celebrían's Stone, and swap out the healing cards for Dúnedain Warning. The rest is up to you.

Hahaa, thanks so much! I read your comment as I was looking over my Sam build and thinking to myself "card draw is going to be a real problem here". Gildor is perfect.

@SfrugOne of Grimbeorn's restricted slots is already filled by The One Ring so equipping one War Axe already gives him +2 Attacks. But think it comes up short of 1 Attack of killing the Hill Troll (3 base attack doubled to 6 + 1 from Strenght and Courage +2 from War Axe +2 from Grimbeorn's Defense drop = 11 when you need 12 total since the Troll has 3 Defense and 9 Hit Points). Still that's already an impressive feat taking into account you only need 1 specific card in your starting hand to pull it off.

Why not a tactics side quest?

@Alonewolf87: the Forth, The Three Hunters! contract allows one extra restricted attachment for each hero. So with war axe and two other restricted (The One Ring plus one of the free ones) Grimbeorn the Old would attack for 3 base attack doubled to 6 + 1 from Strenght and Courage +3 from War Axe +2 from Grimbeorn's Defense drop = 12, enough to kill the troll.

@nelloianiro No real reason other than trying to maximize the percentage of restricted cards. A single Keep Watch could be good though for quests with a lot of swarming enemies, like 7th Level for example.

Amazing deck like always. Wonderful job!

Did you consider Golden Belt for this? I was forced to make a few substitutions because of card pool, so I ran it. Wouldn't be fun to top deck of course, but I found it so easy to max out restricted attachments that in my games I was never unhappy to see it. Might be specific to the extra card draw with Gildor Inglorion though...

@indiefan I did, but I preferred maxing my probability of flipping turn 1. I would lose more often due to a slow start than to not being able to attach a 4th restricted.

I wonder if there is a good option for getting Inner Strength onto Grimbeorn.

Swapping Thurindir for Éowyn would be amazing, if only she didn't clash with her alter ego. Oh well.

Círdan has potential, especially with Elven-light for extra card draw. His starting matches Thurindir's max. Any particular reason you went with over ?

@ellipticaltable There are endless possibilities for good decks built around Grimbeorn and Strength and Courage. But here are a few reasons why you might pick Thurindir over Cirdan.

1. Legacy Blades for quicker contract flipping.
2. Cirdan brings along a lot of tempting toys (Light of Valinor, Elrond's Counsel, A Test of Will) which again slow down the contract flipping.
3. If you want to be able to handle multiple enemies, you either need to find a way to get Grimbeorn both readying and resource generation, which is tough for a spirit hero to provide, or you need to get Firefoot. Thurindir (with Gather Info) helps you get Firefoot online right away (or if you already found Firefoot, then Magic Ring is another way to get an extra defense+counterattack every other round).

tactic-eowyn and thurindir is surprisingly good, specially as 3 hunters. used them (in a 2 player fellowship) to make fortress of nurn. depending what is the goal of the deck you can put in a 3.rd hero. for battle grimbeorn with strength is top. for counter eleanor is th choice and for questingpowerhouse, choose arwen. you will profit from a low startingthread in all cases.

youtu.be here is my run against Nightmare Intruders in Chetwood with this deck.