A Staff in the Shadows

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A Staff in the Shadows 4 4 6 2.0
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A Side of Dale. 4 1 6 1.0
A Staff in the Shadows 1 0 1 4.0
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Veizyr 65

Veizyr has a newer deck inspired by this one: A Staff in the Shadows

The entire point of the deck is to constantly lower your threat using Galadriel with her action which also gives you decent card draw for the early game and Beregond by engaging a low attack enemy and letting them hit you every round for a free threat reduction. There are also plenty of other cards in there to lower your threat even further like Elrond's Counsel, The Galadhrim's Greeting, or Double Back letting you essentially hide in the shadows as you set yourself up for the late game.

Why are we lowering our threat? For this underrated Gandalf ally. Blocking one attack on Beregond and using Galadriel's action every turn, you can keep Gandalf in play every turn and boost him with Glamdring, Gandalf's Staff, and Shadowfax, to have a ranged, sentinel, 6 attack, 4 defense monster that can ready itself.

I find that I can generally drop into secrecy by the third turn which let's me play Resourceful which I will put on Galadriel which in combination with Necklace of Girion gives her 3 resources each turn which is more than enough considering the majority of cards in this deck are pretty low cost.

The rest of the allies in there are used to support your own characters or a friend's with healing and questing.

Fun things to boost are the ability to use Galadriel's action and questing all in one turn using Unexpected Courage, or canceling the random discards from using her Mirror of Galadriel combined with Silver Harp letting you essentially fetch whatever you need each turn.

The deck takes time to build up but I've found that no cards are a must in your first hand. Getting Mirror of Galadriel and a Silver Harp early lets you build a lot quicker but I've found that it's not required. Nenya and an Unexpected Courage also help a lot but because we have a lot of low cost/high willpower allies, you don't necessarily have to use Nenya to quest and can simply continue to use Galadriel's action.

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Mar 09, 2022 Raiderjakk 58

I'd want an extra Gandalf or two in there. He's the star of the deck and while you have a few ways to fetch him in the deck, it's hard to fish him out of discard even with Dwarves Tomb and WotW.

Mar 09, 2022 Veizyr 65

@Raiderjakk I was going to disagree with you on this but I literally just played a game solo where I had Galadriel, her mirror and a silver harp all equipped on her and it took me six turns to fish for Gandalf... So now I'd have to agree with you... I think I might remove one of the three harps (there are no instances of discarding three cards in this deck and encounters rarely go that hard as making you discard that many either) and add a second Gandalf. I found that even playing him very early does not hinder me too hard so long as I have an Unexpected Courage on Galadriel as well, I can lower my threat by one every turn and still make use of her other skills.