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Preferred Player Count: 1, (2-4)
Rating: .5
Premise
Caldara remain an extremely powerful archetype even after her errata and this is my preferred solo deck for it. Arwen Undómiel is of course the hero best synergizing with Caldara with Círdan the Shipwright being another great fit (for providing questing, discarding, ally-readying and leadership-access through Narya.
The deck is otherwise very straight-forward, you get good allies in your discard pile and then Caldara in the right moment (recognizing that moment depends hugely on your boardstate, so it is very hard to make a conclusive recommendation here)
How To Play
I like to look for Prince Imrahil and Narya in my opening hand, especially Imrahil is great to see. With Narya and allies like Glorfindel, Treebeard and Gandalf who have built-in action-advantage, A Very Good Tale is an amazing payoff card with a very low tempo cost usually.
Considerations
Knight of Belfalas is great to recycle himself or Pelargir Shipwright in quests that discard allies and you therefore need cards like him to recycle stuff. Warden of Healing is great if Imladris Caregiver is not sufficient. Map of Earnil I really enjoy to recycle cards if needed (e.g. Elrond's Counsel in threat-intensive quests).
Enjoy!!!