Spirit Pippin Goes Sailing

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Yes, this Spirit Pippin Deck soloed Cobas Haven 34 14 13 1.0
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On Hobbits Storming Cobas Haven: Solo vs. Nightmare 0 0 0 1.0
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Seastan 42171

Video: https://youtu.be/ULG4EVowU3o

This is a refined version of the original deck.

A Storm on Cobas Haven with Hobbits:

(Note: the deck also works well as-is against most of the sailing quests).

Setup

  1. Choose Narlenya as your ship (in addition to Dream-chaser).
  2. Choose Sea-ward Tower as your first objective.
  3. Nothing in particular you need to mulligan for here.

Strategy

Draw 2 cards each turn with Bilbo, and play down 2+ cheap allies per turn with the help of Narlenya's resource acceleration.

There is no rush to get the first objective. With your army of allies the sailing tests should (must) be passed every turn. I normally commit 7+ to the sailing test. The rest of the higher willpower characters commit to the quest.

Keep your threat low with Gandalf and Greeting+A Good Meal. The lowest threat enemy in the deck is 28.

If the situation arises where you must kill a ship that's guarding an objective in order to advance the quest, you have a few options:

  1. Nuke it in the staging area with a couple Gandalfs
  2. Engage the ship and send the corsairs back to the staging area with Pippin. Then kill the ship with some combination of your ships, Treebeard, Quickbeam, Gandalf, and Sam (who should be boosted). Take an undefended attack on your ships if you need to.
  3. Use Saruman to make the ship guard (and attached objective) disappear for a round.

Choosing Tower of the Gull as your starting objective and trying to keep it clear so you can use it to destroy the other ship guards is another valid strategy.

I will leave the rest up to you! The deck is very consistent, and has beaten the quest both ways (questing vs. destroying flagship).

8 comments

Nov 14, 2016 bodasafa 12

Thank you Chris, loving this cycle but got my ass handed to me with the City of the Corsairs and was getting ready to try it with Caldara deck next. But I'll give this deck a go first.

Nov 14, 2016 Seastan 42171

@bodasafaCity of Corsairs is tough for this deck because the Stomcaller's engagement cost is only 20 and you have to deal with it right away.

I would recommend a different deck for that quest, like this one: ringsdb.com

Jan 28, 2017 wlk 1

@SeastanHow do you managed to handle one new engaging corsair every turn due to the Raider Flagship forced effect ? Seems I have not enough strength to fight them (especially early game), and pilling them back in the staging area with Pippin will quickly threat me out.

Jan 28, 2017 Seastan 42171

@wlkThis is not the deck to use for City of Corsairs. I did manage to beat it by dropping below 20 on the first turn with Good Meal and The Galadhrim's Greeting, followed by a Galadriel's Handmaiden or two to stay away from the Stormcaller for enough rounds to quest through. But if you don't get that combo (or Sneak-attack Gandalf, in your opening hand it's extremely difficult.

I would recommend a different deck for this quest, like this: ringsdb.com

Jan 28, 2017 wlk 1

@Seastan yes, I know. I'm definitly playing the Storm on Cobas Heaven, which pulls a Raider Flagship during the setup.

Jan 28, 2017 Seastan 42171

@wlkSorry for misunderstanding you. For A Storm on Cobas Haven, the flagship's forced effect only triggers if you are engaged with the flagship! So just don't engage it :).

Jan 28, 2017 wlk 1

Indeed ! I missed the "engaged played" right under my nose. Now I figure why I was in hell :) Thanks for the clarification.

Jan 28, 2017 Seastan 42171

I made the same mistake when I first played the quest. No worries!