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hone 122
I wanted to build a deck around Faramir since I always felt hero Faramir felt overshadowed by his ally version. This deck is about getting allies in play and having some action advantage with his ability, Strider, Treebeard, and Gimli.
You'll want to mulligan for any cards like Resourceful, Timely Aid, Strider, Steward of Gondor or Dúnedain Wanderer to get some allies / action advantage in play. With 3 copies of most of these cards, it should be easy. Taking Initiative is also great for early card draw and damage on the opening turn. It will almost always hit with only 16/50 cards costing < 2. If you don't land any of these cards, with a starting resource of 4, you can always hardcast Treebeard or any 4 cost ally.
Getting Erestor out is great for getting rid of uniques and dealing with card draw.
Use Son of Arnor to help with more action advantage by getting any ents brought in that turn to ready.
The deck can be adjusted for a different set of allies which I've included various options in the sideboard that might be interesting. A Good Harvest can be a good addition if you find you need more resource smoothing.
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I used a variation of this deck in our fellowship event for 2016 in Austin, Siege of Annuminas. I thought it was only appropriate to play a deck with the new alternative art Faramir.
I replaced Beechbone with a second copy of Skinbark to help handle the Orcs. In addition, I subbed out Gimli for Anborn since my partner was playing with Hero Gimli.
Having a good opening hand is a must. I was able to draw Timely Aid's, Resourceful, Steward of Gondor, and Taking Initiative. Taking Initiative eliminated the 2 Hit Point Warg in staging as well as draw into a second Timely Aid. With the Resourceful in hand, I felt comfortable enough to cast Steward of Gondor on my partner's dwarf deck on turn 1 and still muster Anborn with Timely Aid. I never drew Strider, but had Gildor Inglorion as a hero by turn 3 with Sneak Attack and Sword-thain. By turn 4, I had 2 x Resourceful on Faramir, 3 Heroes, and Treebeard out.