Armies of Dol Amroth 1.0

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Absolutely love your builds, and this is no exception! Mono leadership is just an intriguing concept because considering its solo-nature, it is one of the most allround spheres. Unfortunately, it takes a bit of puzzling to get it right, cause despite the allround capabilities, it's hard to specialise.

I love the concept of this deck though, Prince of Dol Amroth is such a potent card and Leadership Denethor is a personal favourite of mine, even though I don't even own him... I'm currently trying to build a deck with him and Leadership boromir that just doesn't want to fall into place...

As usual with Leadership though, initial questing is difficult, so mulligan for Ethir Swordsman may not be a bad idea if you need to get that willpower going...

keep up the good work! Your decks have inspired me to build many decks already :)

Thanks, @Wolves, that is mighty kind of you to say. I too have been trying to build a Gondor design around Leadership Denethor and Leadership Boromir, but I have yet to settle on a build that I like. My hope is that Knight of the White Tower is the missing piece of the puzzle.

Haha, yeah he's in there too, but I really just want to put Raiment of War on him and be done with it... The easiest way out is using Mablung probably, which also opens up Gondorian shield for all heroes... But still... perfection is still far away :D

@Wolves, @Beorn, my brother has seen some pretty decent success with a Leadership/Tactics Gondor deck featuring Boromir, Beregond, and Prince Imrahil in tandem with Gondor Ranger deck I play that features Denethor, Damrod, and Aragorn. The main pieces are of course a bunch of cheap Gondor allies that get a combat bonus from Boromir and a questing bonus Visionary Leadership. So far it works pretty well in multiplayer but I don't know his full listing. I'll talk to him about posting it!

I can imagine D4rkWolf, it sounds potent. I love Damrod and his traps, it's just a shame that you cannot trap multiple targets per round and that many enemies have become immune to player cards :(

But yeah, Boromir with Visionary Leadership is nearly a given certainty... he's Gondor's Dain and with his Dad having his back it feels so natural to create a deck with them together...

Unfortunately, the only thing that really anoys me is that all leadership gondor non-unique allies (save Knight of the White Tower) are really weak statwise... instead of being mediocre by themselves such as dwarves and becoming awesome through Dain, Buffed up Boromir gives +1 will and attack to a bunch of weaklings, making them mediocre at best... :( Not until Faramir ally boosts that will power again and, if you play with Aragorn and his Broken Sword another +1 do they become awesome, which kinda ruins the fun for me a bit. I'm almost forced to play leadership Denethor and Boromir with either tactics (for which my first choise would be Mablung) or Lore (using Aragorn and his sword) since both Tactics and Lore bring a variety of strong gondor allies into play. Nevertheless, I wish I could go mono-leadership for this one.

A bit of a compromise would be to use Amarthiúl to get access to that wonderful tactics sphere, but it just feels thematically wrong :(

Mono Leadership Gondor is definitely harder to pull off. I have as yet to find a successful listing that I'm comfortable with. I have a Leadership/Spirit listing on here called Gondor As It Should Have Been that's a mixture of Dunedain signals and some Gondor allies featuring Aragorn, Arwen Undómiel, and Denethor as its heroes, which in initial testing has proved to be fun. It's more about turning Aragorn into a monster via signals and some of his tools like Sword that was Broken to buff up your allies, and is also my first deck featuring Knight of the White Tower, which is has really nice stats but the drawback of needing to have all its cost paid from one hero's pool. Denethor helps out a lot with that, and it's quite fun to quest very strongly with allies without Visionary Leadership in the deck. It also seems pretty good for solo play, which is not something I typically design my decks around (my brother and I play together mostly).

A bit late to the party, but as a lover of Mono Leadership Gondor I have to say I have pretty good results with my list. It's not a top tier deck but its most definitely better than other archetypes like Rohan in the current metagame. And while most of the weenies are pretty small, with stuff like Very Good Tale and Herald of Anorien playing a bunch of them is really easy, and when even your Errand Riders are questing for 2 or 3, that's amazing. I'll admit that one of its big weaknesses was not having tank allies, but Veteran of Osgiliath and Knight of the White Tower solved this issue. And its final weakness IMO, card draw, was largely solved with Rod of the Steward. Honestly I think Gondor is at a great spot right now and I only play true solo against mostly modern quests.

Hi mate,

I usualy never post anything but i had to make an exception with you: i absolutely LOVE your deck. I'm a huge fan of mono leadership decks (and Prince Imrahil is probably one of my fav heroes). I've built a Denethor-Imrahil-Kahliel quite efficient with the Harad trait.

Have to say that "Prince of Dol Amroth" in your deck makes Imrahil the most powerful hero of the game.

Thanks @SoonTsoo, I’m glad that you like the deck. Prince Imrahil is also a favorite of mine, and it is amusing to see how powerful he becomes in this deck.

This Deck is still fun to play!

I just unintentionally found a rather significant weakness of this deck. I was playing "Road to Rivendell" and had 5 allies on the board early in the game; I was feeling pretty good. Then, I was chump blocking a Mountain Warg, and ended up with a shadow effect that dealt one damage to all allies in play. Well, most of these allies are 1 HP and thus I lost all 5 allies in one shadow effect. To make matters worse, I lost my chump blocker, and had to deal the undefended damage to a hero, killing Denethor. Talk about a game ending shadow effect! Oof.

Why not put Men of the West?

Just beat The River Running with this deck. Very powerful! I got two Ethir Swordsmans right away which was clutch, and a bunch more allies followed. Prince of Dol Amroth is such a great card!!!