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Mythik 202
After playing with Argalad a little bit as an attacker who can help with questing post staging, I thought about trying to make a deck that focused more on his ability than the ability being an afterthought. This is the result of that, and the result is interesting if not overly strong.
Between Argalad and Thalin, an enemy revealed by the encounter deck will start with two damage on them, which isn't bad at all. Frodo is there to provide some questing support himself as well as allow Argalad to commit to the quest and use his ability every turn, while dropping threat where possible.
If you can get out a Guardian of Ithilien with Ranger Bow, Gondorian Spearman with Spear of the Citadel, and a Dagger on Argalad, every turn you can kill a 3 threat, 5 HP enemy without breaking a sweat.
The biggest challenges for this deck - enemies immune to player card effects (or with Toughness), forced engagements (via effects or just low enemy engagement costs), and questing. The Giant Bear and Horns! Horns! Horns! is there to help deal with the first two by providing a solid body to help where needed. And apart from them, the rest of the allies are reasonably willpower efficient to help with the questing aspect.
I've only played it solo and works OK in this iteration -I spent a long time getting location locked because I just couldn't muster enough willpower until i changed the deck quite a bit. I suspect though it may be better in multiplayer where more enemies will be revealed, and there is more questing support out of the gate.
It's very much a turtle style deck, but I've been having some fun with it. It's satisfying to see some of the stronger enemies get revealed, then die without giving a whimper. Being able to use Unlikely Friendship without either Legolas or Gimli has been more satisfying than I'd thought as well.
Don't take it against any Uruks though, the Toughness keyword shuts it down hard.
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Oct 31, 2021 |
Nov 01, 2021the readying is expensive and not sure (questing succesfully not guaranteed) the best attachements for argalad cannot be implemented (Light of Valinor and Mirkwood Long-knife i think the spiritversion of frodo might be better (or taking Arwen Undómiel makes it faster ) with Miruvor, Unexpected Courage in addition to Light of Valinor should be enough readying to get it early. |
Nov 01, 2021The attachments might be better long term but it takes turns to draw and play them. Using Leadership Frodo ensures the action advantage right from turn 1, and when you do quest successfully (which isn't out of the question, with a 2 threat enemy out you will effectively quest for 7 turn 1) you'll be able to keep your threat level and hopefully underneath engagement costs. Frodo also offers flexible action advantage - even if you don't need to quest with Argalad, you can ready Thalin if you've found a Spear but no Spearman to wield it. I tried a couple of different Spirit heroes (Galadriel w/ Nenya, Merry, Arwen, but just found I couldn't get the readying or threat reduction consistently when I needed it and still be able to quest without raising my threat. |
Nov 01, 2021
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This deck is a ton of fun! Just ran it through a couple quests, I love it!