Sidestepping Through Middle-Earth (MD - Side Quests Solo)

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Mormegil 5117



This deck is part of Mormegil’s Deckbox, an effort to create an extensive catalogue of decks for the different archetypes, themes and playing styles available to players. Click here to check out the whole project.



Preferred Player Count: 1, (2-4)

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Premise


My preferred Side Quest deck for solo. This deck shines through its high versatility, questing prowess and efficient heroes. It definitely could be changed very slightly to be a One Deck (see below under "Considerations"), so I think it is one of the most powerful decks of the entire deckbox.


How To Play


The usual way to go is using Thurindir to fetch you either Gather Information (to afterwards search through your very toolbox-like deck for whatever you need) or The Storm Comes, depending on your opening hand and the quest. Your high starting willpower (coupled with the strong boost of Power of Command) should get you through your first side quests without too much trouble. From there on, the deck is filled with efficient and generally useful cards with a higher percentage of high-cost allies than usual to utilize The Storm Comes.


Considerations


For quests that tax you more on enemies than on questing, Inner Strength becomes attractive, for quests that have nasty treacheries Halfling Bounder is worth a shout. This deck could also very easily be a One Deck ... add a few of your "standard One Deck options" such as Nori or Strider and you should definitely be able to do a successful run. If you cannot run The One Ring due to playing a saga quest, my recommendations for replacements would be Shining Shield and Magic Ring or Treebeard for the ring and Power of Command respectively.



Enjoy!!!


4 comments

Oct 14, 2024 doomguard 2121

greetings

do u think it would be less effective taking Beravor instead of Thurindir and replacing Scout Ahead with another Heed the Dream?

its not the same fokus, sidequests would be more an addon, but the additional carddraw do make it worth for me. and it is more use in multiplayer.

who should take Thorongil

Oct 14, 2024 Mormegil 5117

Hmm Beravor would be replacement but I do prefer Thurindir. The 2 threat and extra WP makes a sizeable difference I find, also seeing whatever with Gather or having the option of using Storm Comes to get some bomb allies into play quickly is quite key I find. Plus cards of Rider of Rohan or Vigilant Dunedain are pretty unreal if you get a guaranteed early sidequest.

There are extremely good BoF decks running Beravor, I would just build them entirely different. I do also plan to have a section for general BoF good stuff decks later on in my deckbox and decks running Beravor and BoF will feature there certainly.

Thorongil I really like on Denethor for encounter control. Mid- to late-game, it often pushes a likely win to be an almost certain win, being able to avoid the couple of cards still threatening to you.

Oct 14, 2024 doomguard 2121

Denethor is a solid solo-safety-chioce for Thorongil if playing with Alep, i think its worth thinking about Glorfindel

in multiplayer i doubt the usefullness of Denethor even Éowyn could be better if not using Alep. for 3-4 player i think i would prefer her.

Oct 14, 2024 Mormegil 5117

Yes, I agree. Outside of solo, I would most likely remove it entirely.