Fellowship of the Wise 1.0

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Just me trying to make a workable Vilya deck with limited access to reprinted cards. For this deck you need Revised Core, FotR Saga, Elves of Lorien, and Shadow and Flame. The last is just for Master of the Forge so you can replace that with something else that will let you dig for the key pieces, like Word of Command or Gather Information perhaps. The core idea is to get Vilya first, Wizard Pipe second, then flood the board with allies while maintaining threat with Galadriel and reducing threat with Galadriel's Handmaiden and Elrond's Counsel. The deck is definitely a slow start, so it's best played with a second deck that can quest hard out of the gate, but once the snowball starts it's pretty unstoppable. My first three tries of Moria with this were brutal because I kept drawing all the many-pillared halls and just having way too much threat in the staging area, but on my fourth try I got the right pieces and it was laughably easy. I had both Daughter of the Nimrodel healing me for up to 6 damage each round, and ended up killing the Balrog in a single round with Flame of Anor, discarding Beorn from the top of my deck and using a horde of allies with two or three attack each, of course. Also Elrond was able to easily tank the Balrog with Gift of Foresight and Protector of Lórien.

I enjoy this deck because each round feels like a puzzle (testing your "wisdom," you might say) to see how many cards you can squeeze out at once, and I rarely leave any resources unspent from round to round.