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Jreilly89 419
I've been really diving deep into the contracts lately. With most of the Mordor cycle being able to obtain, I've been printing proxies of all the good cards from that cycle and the contracts were first on my list.
Council of the Wise is a very interesting contract because you can only include 1 copy of any card, but you get a very strong effect anytime you play an event in the form of a free resource, card, or threat reduction.
I immediately thought of going into Secrecy since you can trigger the threat reduction repeatedly since the contract does not limit how many times you can trigger the effect.
Aragorn seemed like a good start since his attachments can give him other resource spheres, allowing you to play off sphere cards. Plus he has built in action advantage with his ability. Cirdan is my first pairing to help with card draw, since I really want to be digging deep each turn for cards like Strider or the Song attachments. The downside is you're discarding the other card you draw, so I've included Will of the West.
My other 2nd choice pairing is Elrond, as he can help pay for all the offsphere allies, but I've only got one copy of Elrond and he's in another deck.
Lastly, Lore Bilbo could be a good 3rd choice. You draw the same cards as Cirdan, but you get to keep them instead of discarding. He is a little weaker than Cirdan, but opens up some fun Hobbit cards and more Lore options.
There are a few other cards that would be great inclusions, but since I like to leave multiple decks ready to go, they are either in other decks or I don't own them. I have them listed in the sideboard for reference.
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Mar 23, 2025Good call on the contract! I didn't realize it was a once per round limit on the threat reduction. I'm going to try making a new deck with a different pair of Heroes. Also, some of those cards would be great, but I only own some of them. I didn't include Resourceful for that reason. |
combining Council of the Wise with secrecy is an interesting idea, but i would not choose heroes with startingthread of 24. if u want to make secrecy effective you need it early. and with this combo it is hard to get it early (you can only reduce thread with contract once a round, so you can stay on your level with the contract but not go below. for that you need additional reduction)
plus, you have very few secrecy-cards.
i think this deck would be more effective without try to reach secrecy and focus on the benefits of the heroes, or get a soloution that have secrecy before or within the 1, round and then go for more secrecy-cards. (you miss all the sercecy-allies)
options for additional threadreduction would be
if you can reduce thread by 2 every round there are better chances to include secrecy as strategy.