ChallengeDay: Flee from Bree.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lotrlcg/comments/1fz66kc/challengeday_october_30th_flee_from_bree/

My first try was using Aragorn and the Fellowship; it failed miserably.

Then I decided to avoid using Hobbits as Heroes, because most of them suck outside of Hobbit-themed decks, and the fact it's kind of hard to make all of them available in a deck without using Songs, thanks to the obligation of having Aragorn in the game (whose idea was that?)

Well, my solution was then making them all allies... except for Frodo, of course!

The framework depended on which Aragorn and which Frodo to use. Initially I wanted to use Leadership Frodo, because his ability is very good with high threat Heroes. The initial draft had as starting heroes Le-Frodo, Aragorn and Denethor; good questing capacity, staunch defender out of the box, the power of being rich and a threat reducer every round. That, though, made it hard to play the ally version of the hobbits, so I had to change something.

Then I realized: they all share one thing, the Bond of Friendship. This contract makes it so I can put in every required hobbit ally regardless of sphere. Sure, the deckbuilding is a challenge in itself when it comes to this contract, but you can cheat here and there with cards like A Good Harvest and The Gathering Storm.

The deck was then changed to Aragorn, Frodo Baggins, Denethor and Beravor. Card draw was important, because I need to play as many cards as possible, because you gotta hit the ground running: the threat is too high to be able to build even for a turn. Remember, one of the quests has a 6ATK monster swinging from round 1.

That... wasn't working out.

At one point, I had Sméagol in the Lore slot, because of the low threat. The problem is there wasn't much I could do if he went mad and I would lose access to the Lore sphere for as long as he would be throwing his tantrum.

Then it hit me... There is a very good Hero that technically has 6 starting threat: Éowyn.

The deck was then revamped. The new line-up became the one that finished every single of quest in this challenge, including a Nightmare: Aragorn, Frodo, Denethor and the newcomer (soon to be MVP) Éowyn.

After a few runs to get used to the deck, I went on a tear. In about 10 tries, I was able to beat all 4 quests, finishing with a ~50% win rate. Not bad for such restrictions I would say.

In the end, Éowyn's 4 willpower, reduced starting threat, bonkers ability and being in the sphere made here the overall MVP, with 3/5 MVPs, the other two being Sword that was Broken and Frodo.

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Not gonna lie, had tons of fun with this challenge, specially considering I had never played 3 out of those 4 quests. Hope you guys have a cool experience with this too!