Core Heroes + Full Card Pool 2 1.0

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Concept

I was in the discord general channel and was discussing heroes with some newer players...and I revealed that I hadn't played a Core Set hero outside of [Beravor](/card/01012) in a very long time, so I wanted to return to a classic lineup of [Aragorn](/card/01001), [Théodred](/card/01002), and [Éowyn](/card/01007)...but with a full card pool at my disposal. After a few drafts and discussion in the discord deckbuilding channel, this is what I came up with.

Deckbuilding

I knew this deck was going to be pretty weak on total strength, so I absolutely had to put in a couple cheap attackers, and it's lucky there's been so much sphere bleed in recent years, as you're no longer restricted to efficient attackers in anymore. Enter [Knight of Belfalas](/card/22034) and [Greenwood Archer](/card/16003). [Treebeard](/card/08146) also helps us a bit with this.

Aragorn is your primary defender, with supplemental chumps in the form of [Envoy of Pelargir](/card/05018), but he should be more than serviceable with a built-in ready, [Inner Strength](/card/22009), [Ancestral Armor](/card/19028), and [Shining Shield](/card/22138). Careful, though, as there's no healing in the deck as currently constructed.

You should never be lacking for raw , and there are a LOT of ways to boost it in this deck as well, so your stats should be pretty well covered.

Card draw is solved with [Ancient Mathom](/card/02056) and [Elven-light](/card/10145).

Gameplay

I generally like to make Aragorn the [Steward of Gondor](/card/01026) (if I see it early) to fuel his resource-hungry ability and use Theodred to help give Eowyn some extra blue resources to play [A Test of Will](/card/01050) or churn out cheap questers. It also makes sense to put Steward on Aragorn if you see [Celebrían's Stone](/card/01027) as well. That's really the primary decision in this deck, other than when to use the tired but nevertheless effective [Sneak Attack](/card/01023)-[Gandalf](/card/01073) combo. Other than that, you just slap bodies on the table, turn cards sideways, and watch stats pile up. It's not a particularly exciting deck, but it works. If you want to spice it up, I suppose you could lean into [Stand and Fight](/card/01051) with Eowyn's discard ability, but I find that to be relatively cumbersome in terms of card slots and resources needed. If you haven't revisited these heroes in a long time, I suggest taking an iteration of a deck like this for a spin. I'd be fascinated to see what others come up with as well.