Dunedain Starter + Core Spirit to Beat Deadmen’s Dike

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Background: I had played Deadmen’s Dike twice with the default Dunedain starter deck and was defeated convincingly both times. Location lock was often an issue. Equally, locations were distracting and meant I wasn’t able to handle enemies.

Goal / Constraints: Beat Deadmen’s Dike with the three heroes from the suggested Dunedain deck in Angmar Awakened with option to add in other cards from Angmar Hero expansion or Revised Core.

Strategy: These heroes give access to Leadership, Spirit (if I can get Celebrían's Stone on Aragorn), and Tactics Resources, but not Lore (at least not without Stand and Fight).

So the general plan is to get Celebrían's Stone on Aragorn, to be able to play some key spirit cards and also add Steward of Gondor to provide the resources to support that.

I went from 1 to 3 copies of Celebrían's Stone to maximise the chance of being able to use the added spirit cards.

Spirit Cards added:

  • Northern Tracker to prevent location lock and helps avoid travelling to nasty locations. This is key, so I put in 2 copies.
  • Unexpected Courage on Aragorn to permit questing and using the 3 attack.
  • A Test of Will could be used to prevent heavy curse or perhaps a bad Cursed Dead reveal.
  • Dwarven Tomb to enable pulling these cards out of the discard pile and thereby reduce the need to have multiple copies of these spirit cards.
  • While Stand and Fight could possibly be used to get Gléowine or Henamarth Riversong into play, I thought that might be a bridge too far. That said, it provides another helpful option for getting the many discarded cards back in play. E.g., if I need Faramir or Northern Tracker or whatever. And it might help with resource smoothing.
  • Will of the West: This is handy in Deadmen’s Dike in case the deck gets low.
  • The Galadhrim's Greeting: This gives another threat reduction option given that Gandalf is generally there for card draw.

Reflections

I’ve played the scenario once and I got the win with this deck. So, it’s not exactly benchmarking. But it worked just as planned (albeit with a bit of luck).

I imagine the deck could possible be honed. If so, I’d consider discarding:

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