[Beginner-Friendly] Gondor Solo Deck 1.0

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Beginner disclaimer: This deck should be mostly buildable with the Core Set, Defenders of Gondor, Riders of Rohan and Dwarves of Durin starter decks. A list of missing cards / replacements is suggested down below

I will never say it enough but Lothíriel is the best design of the last cycle. Contracts are amazing, yeah. But Lothíriel enables both Rohan and Gondor decks:

• Rohan deck if Éomer is somewhere on the board(*), just because bouncing Éomund in an out is stupid, esepcially with the inclusion of the Horn of the Mark. Since the Rohan archetype of discarding allies has always suffered greatly because it's both resource- and card-intense, she helps a damn lot.
• Gondor deck because she is the only reasonable Gondorian quester (hero wise) with her starting 3 . For example in our current line-up, before she was added to the card pool, your only choice of Gondor hero would be Caldara or Beregond, neither of them good questers (at best average). She also of course allows for the own Gondorian bouncing, mainly with the Soldier of Gondor that you can play repeatedly to draw all of your allies. She also combos in different ways with both version of Imrahil, which is so cool.
• Now that I think about it, she also enables a Mutual Accord archetype I will have to revisit one day.

The deck is fairly versatile, I have beaten the full Against the Shadow Cycle with it (and it's got Siege and Battle questing).

Mulligan for Soldier of Gondor (you need them for card draw), Steward of Gondor and some more allies. An early Valiant Sacrifice is clutch. From there it should run swiftly.

The deck has a fair amount of questing power early on (enough let's say 5 since you want to be using Prince Imrahil and trigger his Response) and can be further boosted with Visionary Leadership of course.

Card draw is covered by Soldier of Gondor and Valiant Sacrifice early on, and supplemented by the Rod of the Steward. I don't see the Rod getting much play around. But mid-game, when your hand is kinda stuck with double uniques or whatever and you already have 10 resources on Boromir, why not draw 5 cards?

Boromir's ability should be enough for attacking . Hell, I even totally forgot about it during several games, and it was still fine, especially with the Valiant Sword.

is a little harder to come by. Fortunately, you can get some Shining Shield and feed a kid or three to Hill Trolls and the like that can be retrieved with Knight of Belfalas. You do have some (very powerful) healing with the Warden of Healings, so don't be afraid to take some damage.

Some combos to keep in mind:

• Herald of Anórien bringing in a Warden of Healing has always been one of my favorite Gondorian combo, allowing you healing.
• Citadel Custodian + A Very Good Tale even though you won't need it most of the time. Have two 2-cost allies? Play A Very Good Tale and exhaust them. High chance you'll get two 2-cost allies out of it.

Sideboard:

• Maybe 3x The Galadhrim's Greeting for threat reduction, you'll see Lothiriel's resource can accumulate quite a bit.

(*) Hint to the designers in case any future female card comes by: it's cool that Lothiriel gains an ability or trait through Eomer, but the reverse would make it more equal IMO.

Suggested replacements:

• -1x Faramir
• -3x Herald of Anórien
• -2x Warden of Healing
• -2x Rod of the Steward
• -1x Doom Hangs Still
• +3x Sneak Attack
• +3x Gandalf
• +3x Guard of the Citadel