That Still Only Counts As One! - Legolas & Gimli - V1.0 1.0

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Ring of Thrór thanks to The Riddle-game on Gimli, churn out a free attachment each turn (starts at c.95% chance as literally only Elrond's Counsel you don't want to see) on your heroes and flip hunters contract to boost willpower after getting opening hand restricted attachment discounts so resources arent an issue. If you want to up the thematic throw in Keeping Count for extra fun (avoid for tough scenarios..)

This deck is all about Legolas & Gimli with lots of readying, Glorfindel is just there for Spirit Access/Economy of threat/to flank Legolas & Gimli's antics (could have done with Aragorn but this feels much more optimised). Gimli has built in readying from Round 1 thanks to Thror, with option to ready Legolas too with his effect. If want to mulligan, Light of Valinor is useful as is a copy of Elrond's Counsel.

• Legolas - One Ring (R) + Strength & Courage, War Axe (R), Mirkwood Knife (R) + another Mirkwood Knife (with Golden Belt) giving Legolas base line 7 and 10 , up to 14 with Strength/Gimli effect. Readying: Unexpected Courage + Onward to Battle + Gimli's Effect so lots of action.

• Gimli - Ancestral Armor (R), Armored Destrier (R), Relic of Nargothrond (R) as your 3 restricted + KingUTM + Strider + Hauberk. Readying: Thror's Ring then option of Onward to Battle + UC too so happily questing for supporting 5-8 and three of them doing 20-25 and multiple readying.

• Glorfindel - Utility Player Supporting Act for Quest/Locations/back up attacker - Needs Light of Valinor for Questing ASAP and can get to 10 quite easily. Steed of Imladris / Celebrian's Stone / Silver Circlet, then of course you want to get a copy of Asfaloth on with Ring of Thror turns him into a progress monster, eating up quests & locations. Steed / Elven Spear can discard any unneeded cards that dont use for Riddle Game, eg Lore cards drawn.

If want more antics then other options in the sideboard, eg if want to go down the Thorongil Gimli route add 2/3 Citadel Plate so that he and Legolas can go head to head on kills using Keeping Count for Thematic (not advised for efficiency or output but fun...!). If want more protection for Gimli go for One Ring + Inner Strength, then Legolas can just load up another weapon.

Naturally some risk associated with no cancellation and lower card draw of this deck when solving the Riddle Game, but with King Under the Mountain up and running + Thror you have equivalent to 3x card draw per round and its alot of fun and dont have to overthink crazy number of actions per turn either for faster play...