White Council Vilya deck

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SaltedPork 188

An attempt at an Elrond/Vilya/Gandalf/Wizard Pipe power deck. The idea is to use Vilya's effect to drop high-cost allies into play for free. Normally you don't know what card is coming up, but Gandalf's effect allows you to play with the first card of your deck face up, and Wizard Pipe let's you swap it with cards from your hand.

Obviously this relies on finding these two attachments early. There's all three copies of Vilya, plus three copies of Bilbo Baggins to find the pipe. Ordinarily I might include ally Galadriel to help find attachments, but I wanted to include her hero version to create a White Council theme. She also has some built-in threat reduction and card-draw, which is pretty vital.

To be honest, I think this deck would be a lot better (and justify the massive starting threat) if I had more expensive cards to drop into play with Vilya. This is definitely one I'll tweak as my collection grows.

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Dec 30, 2022 Ageolite 49

With Gandalf you do not need it, since you can see what is coming, but Imladris Stargazer is generally used to counter you do not know what is coming, to avoid blind Vilya. Alternatively, very expensive version is Gildor Inglorion. But with Gandalf you know what is coming and yes, you can swap the cards using the Wizard Pipe.

And not sure if you have access to it but Word of Command can also help and you have an Istari hero right there.

Dec 30, 2022 SaltedPork 188

@Ageolite - yep, Gandalf has a lot of work to do! It's also really tempting to swap Galadriel for Éowyn to get access to easy early questing power, but then the theme doesn't quite make sense anymore (plus Galadriel's threat reduction is actually probably very useful for this deck).

Dec 31, 2022 Ageolite 49

@SaltedPork Thematically does not make much sense and you are right, threat reduction is good to have in this deck. One suggestion would be Favor of the Valar but withe The Galadhrim's Greeting and Elrond's Counsel you should be more than just fine! But it is another card I am considering in high threat decks.

As for Gandalf I really like Shadowfax and he can also use the third ring Narya.

Jan 09, 2025 Louise 2

I love thematic decks, and this is a lovely one!

Jan 09, 2025 SaltedPork 188

Thanks @Louise! It's been a while since I put this together and you've inspired me to revisit it.