The Hunt 1.0

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This is a thematic deck built for an ongoing series on my blog, Darkling Door.

Theme: The Three Hunters

Played Against: Nightmare The Long Dark

"But come! With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!"

—Aragorn, The Departure of Boromir, The Two Towers

Strategy

This is a Hero-focused deck which turns resources into action advantage.

There are two key Attachments in this deck: Sword that was Broken, the deck's primary source of , and Rune-master, which makes the Signal Attachments essentially free. I look for either one of those or Elven-light (to help me draw them) in my opening hand.

It takes a few turns to get itself established, but once this deck gets going it runs like a well-oiled machine. Every round, all three Heroes can quest. Aragorn uses his resource to ready himself. Legolas uses his resource to return Elven-light to my hand, and then discards it to ready Gimli. If I end up engaged with an Enemy, Gimli can defend it and use his resource to ready Legolas for a counter-attack.

I don't need to ready every Hero every turn—especially in the early game when I'd rather use those resources to establish my board presence instead—but I have the space to ready up whomever I anticipate needing in any given round. No card in the deck costs more than 3 resources, and Gimli often has an extra one lying around from the previous round. That means that I can generally play at least one card every round as needed.

Sideboard

Ever My Heart Rises is specific to quests like The Long Dark which have a lot of Underground or Mountain Locations. In quests lacking these traits, I would swap it for Well Warned instead.

► For more analysis, check out my blog post on this deck.