Boromir and Eowyn go flying

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goram.browncoat has a newer deck inspired by this one: Boromir and Eowyn go flying

My first try at an eagle deck. I made it to pair up with my solo deck (https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/4619/elronds-posse-solo-1.0) for playing with a friend or when I feel like playing twohanded. Based on smashing together the general concept of a tactics eagle deck with some elements of Seastan's Boromir.

Concept

Boromir and Éowyn hang out with some eagles and have fun adventures while Galadriel supports.

Strategy

The idea is to get Support of the Eagles on Boromir with some eagles out as soon as possible. Support of the Eagles boosts his stats for one phase which he can then use multiple times because of his readying ability.

Galadriel supports as best she can. Mirror of Galadriel helps her sift through the deck looking for the right card. Nenya boosts willpower for others (usually Éowyn). Optimally you have Silver Harp out to counter the downside of Mirror of Galadriel. Her threat reduction/ card draw ability also helps in feeding your hand and counter acting Boromirs downside a little.

Éowyn keeps the starting threat nice and low (real starting threat is 26, not 29) and can contribute significantly to questing, even with Nenya still out of play. She can also generally solve one "oh sh*t" moment if an unexpected big baddie comes out of the encounter deck by whacking it upside the head with her +9 ability. The more of her attachments you find with either Mirror of Galadriel or Gather Information, the more she becomes quite scary herself (quest successfully, ready, attack for 5).

The eagle part of the deck is tired old get Eagles of the Misty Mountains out and then get Vassal of the Windlord/Winged Guardian under it as many times as possible so that it becomes a prime target for Support of the Eagles.

Since there is a blue hero I threw in some Unexpected Courage, A Test of Will and Hasty Stroke because I always seem to do that if there is any sort of around.

Advantages:

  • good combat potential
  • solid for a mostly deck
  • low starting threat and decent threat management
  • decent card draw

Concerns:

  • few rounds of setup needed
  • low shadow effect counter play
  • no healing
  • resources can be limiting at times.

(the last three are less of a problem when playing with my solo deck as Warden of Healing, Arwen Undómiel and extra Hasty Strokes help there).

Things I am wondering about:

  • The Unexpected Courage inclusions are proxies when playing with my other deck since I dont have 5 core sets. If there are suitable suggestions to replace I would appreciate that.
  • Steward of Gondor + A Good Harvest works well enough but I find it inelegant. If there are in sphere solutions to the resource problem I am totally open to that.
  • Are there any obvious "holy crap card X would make this deck 10 times better" inclusions that I am missing?
3 comments

Mar 17, 2017 D4rkWolf10 505

@goram.browncoat depending on your preferences, replacing Boromir with Mablung would give you more resource generation and questing power, though you would lose some attack strength and it would change the focus of your deck a fair bit. You could also consider replacing Galadriel with a Leadership hero like Denethor who can give resources to help cast your Tactics spells and Eagles, as well as make it easier to play Steward of Gondor.

I won't give much more advice or suggestions than that. Tactics is my weakest sphere and I have never built a successful Eagle deck that felt satisfying to me to play. If you find something that works for you I'd be happy to hear about it.

Also, your forum name seems extremely familiar. Are you an ex or current MTG player? I knew a chap back in the day who went by browncoat.

Mar 18, 2017 goram.browncoat 4

@D4rkWolf10hey, thanks for the feedback! While making those hero replacements surely would fix the resource issue and Steward of Gondor of gondor clunkiness, it would also (more or less as you already mentioned yourself) just not be this deck anymore.

Replacing Boromir with Mablung I can kind of see, in that you give up some combat for resources in the hope that having more eagles out makes up for the combat loss on the hero.

Replacing Galadriel however is completely gutting the engine of the deck. The deck loses cancellation, questing power, threat control, card draw and topdeck tutoring. I'm not saying Denethor is a bad hero or that replacing with won't have other advantages even besides the less clunky Steward of Gondor. Sneak Attack alone can already be a great addition to the other half of this deck, working well with both Gandalf and Descendant of Thorondor. But it is a completely different deck, not a tweaked version of this one. It sounds interesting though, a eagle deck. Maybe something a new deck could explore down the line.

Ive never really played MTG seriously, just the odd kitchen table match at a friends house so I assume weve never met in that capacity. The nickname is a reference to a fairly popular tv series of the early 2000's though. So it wouldn't be a surprise to me if there are similarly named people on the internet.

Mar 18, 2017 D4rkWolf10 505

@goram.browncoat the Firefly reference just clicked. Silly of me lol.

As for the deck, you're absolutely right that going Leadership would change the deck a bunch and might not be what you want to do with it. I can see it being more efficient to ramp out costly Eagles quickly, but you obviously lose out on some tutoring and threat reduction. I hope you find a method that is consistent! I'd be curious to know.