Galadriel

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Aurion 882

Aurion has a newer deck inspired by this one: Galadriel

Another Grey Wanderer deck, this time using Galadriel.

Setup

Search your deck for Nenya and attach it to its rightful keeper. Now you have the ability to "quest" with Galadriel, provided there is an ally in play, and you can pay for cards too!

Opening Hand

You will definitely need an ally in play asap, so that is your priority for your opening hand. You are really looking for either a Rivendell Scout, Dúnedain Wanderer, Celduin Traveler, or Ithilien Lookout all of which can be played first turn (exhaust The Grey Wanderer to give you 2 extra resources. Failing that, Timely Aid will hopefully find you an ally to boost. Resourceful is also useful to see early on, but I would be tempted to dig for it with Master of the Forge and/or the Mirror of Galadriel. I would only use the latter though if you have a Silver Harp in play unless you are desperate to find a particular card.

Strategy

Basically, just keep playing allies each round and boosting their using Galadriel in combination with Protector of Lórien and Elven-light. Don't forget Galadriel's other constant effect that allies don't exhaust to quest the first round they enter play, so you should always have at least 1 character ready to defend if needs be.

You should expect to stay in secrecy the entire game because of Galadriel's action and Elrond's Counsel, so make the most of Risk Some Light to play both Ithilien Lookout and Celduin Traveler at the most optimum time.

Out of Sight is there for when you have some big nasty that has to be dealt with as there is very little in this deck and it can be played for 1 resource whilst you are in secrecy and you have a Leaf Brooch on Galadriel. The rest of the time, Leaf Brooch gives you another free card per turn when used in combo with Elven-light.

Beorn can only be brought into play via Timely Aid, so I have included Gildor Inglorion to out him back into the top 3 cards if you draw him before you get a Timely Aid.

You have Northern Trackers and Asfaloth for location control and there is enough strength in the deck to get through most enemies, which you will generally only engage when you are ready to face them.

That's about everything you need to know about this deck. Enjoy!

6 comments

Sep 13, 2021 doomguard 2121

Leaf Brooch + Elven-light is cool

would consider 1-2 Stand and Fight (then you can play allie out o the discard withour res-match, even beorn i res is availaible.)

Sep 13, 2021 pirinisz 36

Great deck! Here's a suggestion for you: how about using The Storm Comes in order to be able to play allies without any resource match and using The Grey Wanderer's action for other types of cards, like events and attachments?

Sep 13, 2021 Aurion 882

@doomguard you could take out 1 or 2 copies of Unexpected Courage to include Stand and Fight as Galadriel only really needs one. to be able to use her ability and Nenya each round.

@pirinisz I'm not a huge fan of side quests as they don't work in a lot of time sensitive scenarios. Most cards are accessible from the beginning of the game as Nenya gives Galadriel a icon, but you could include a Song of Kings to be able to play the rest of them. I didn't really find I needed to though as there is only Timely Aid off-sphere and I would usually just wait to use that for when I don't have a playable ally in hand.

Sep 13, 2021 Sfrug 385

Do you even need an Unexpected Courage? In most scenarios I suspect that Galadriel could exhaust with her ability, ready with the contract (and get two resources too), and then quest with Nenya. She can't attack or defend anyway! Unless the scenario requires hide tests or something, why would you need unexpected courage at all? Am I missing something?

Sep 14, 2021 Aurion 882

Some scenarios require to exhaust a hero to travel or claim an objective etc. so I would always recommend having at least 1 copy so you can use her ability and Nenya each round and still have her available. You could sideboard it for those specific quests though and bring in some more allies. Jubayr and Arwen Undómiel would be my choice as there's very little defensive options in this deck. A Burning Brand for Gildor Inglorion would be nice too for some more shadow cancellation.

Sep 14, 2021 Truck 1445

@Sfrug, I used this deck (the updated ver) against NM Into Fangorn, and UC was very useful with Mugash, who got detached a few times.