Ancient Arnor Alliance 1.0

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consider Pippin instead of beravor. less thread and increased engagement for enemys support the hobbitcloak, staf of lebetron and raise the shire because you want to engage, you will also draw cards. questing is the same.

@doomguardIt's a good suggestion, but I like how the deck is working with Beravor right now. I can get a lot of card draw while contributing to questing thanks to Frodo's ability. Beravor's 2 attack is also nice. Attack power usually doesn't come online until a few allies are out. Even then the more the attack power the better I've found playing in these Ered Mithren quests. The 2 more hit points have also helped with taking an early undefended attack.

The Tactics Pippin ally would have to be sideboarded out. He's great value at 2 and even more so at 1 if there are less hobbits. He also helps with the mid to late game attack power.

That all said, I can certainly see him working well in the deck. It would be nice to start with the discount on the more expensive Dunedain allies. It also wouldn't require using Frodo's ready for card draw. Although I usually use it anyway for threat control. I'd definitely put Lore Pippin hero down as a sideboard option.

Looks like fun, I will give it a try. Also I could totally be missing something but how do you play The Shirefolk? Because as far as I know there is no way to modify the traits to have a combination where you can play it, unless a hero is dies.

Sorry I found a way, you can ignore my previous comment.

@Wandering Dúnedain no worries. I should probably point that Last Alliance's exhaust action can modify The Shirefolk's text so it is playable.

@kattattack22Yah but doesn't the The Last Alliance replace a trait instead of giving it. So you could exhausted The Last Alliance to replace the hobbit trait on The Shirefolk with the dúnedain trait, but you still have Frodo without the dúnedain trait required to play it.

The way I found was to exhaust The Last Alliance and modify one of the dúnedain heroes to have the hobbit trait, then during the refresh phase after all the cards have been readied exhaust The Last Alliance to modify the remaining dúnedain hero to have the hobbit trait then because the round is not over yet you can play The Shirefolk in the last action window of the round as all three heroes have the hobbit trait now. You could also modify Frodo and The Shirefolk to make it work as well, depending on which traits you want in play at the time. Sorry if that seemed kind of confusing.

The Last Alliance modify a trait to be either A or B, so in the shirefolk example it would read "if all your heroes are Hobbits or Dunedain" which means any combination of them works.

@Wandering Dúnedain, you can't use Last Alliance to modify the heroes' traits. Seastan pointed out when the contract came out that traits aren't part of the ability text. `

It doesn't replace traits it adds or A trait / B trait. @Samuel San` has the right of it to replace Shirefolk to say, "Play if only each of your heroes is a Hobbit or Dunedain." The wording is similar then to cards like Ring Mail or Armor of Erebor that work for either specified trait.

Thanks, I guess that means that I have been playing The Last Alliance wrong. Anyway I tried the deck and beat Journey Along the Anduin first try, Good work.

@Wandering Dúnedain Thanks for trying it out! It's not a power deck since you start questing with only 4 willpower and Amarthiul needs some set up. I find it has a lot of fun uses for Last Alliance though.