Eldahir Superstar 1.0

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Here is an unprecedented deck built around Eldahir's ability to scry / get a defense boost since an engaged ennemy is dealt a shadow card. Thanks to Armored Destrier, Shining Shield, Dúnedain Warning, Protector of Lórien, he is the main defender of the deck, while Arwen Undómiel increases his stats with Tale of Tinúviel, and Bifur collects each round a resource from Eldahir's Steward of Gondor that he spends for triggering the Dunedain's action.

Attachments

• Eldahir : Steward of Gondor, Armored Destrier, The Day's Rising, Shining Shield, Dúnedain Warning, Protector of Lórien

• Bifur : Magic Ring

• Arwen : Light of Valinor

Resources

Eldahir gets extra resources from Steward of Gondor and The Day's Rising (Eldahir has the Sentinel Trait), Bifur from its ability and indirectly from Eldahir surplus, Arwen from its action (most of the time she uses it for Elven-light). If Eldahir would have large amount of resources to spend, he might alone pay for neutral cards like Gandalf, Treebeard or Shadow of the Past.

Scrying for planning

Henamarth Riversong, Far-sighted and Cautious Halfling complete the scrying of the encounter deck, to optimize the decisions : who will be committed to quest ? Who will be declared as defender ? Will I spend a resource to look at a facedown shadow card and maybe to give + 2 def to Eldahir ? Plus, with some arithmetics we can plan our questing in order to get Bofur entered play for 1 resource.

Shadow of the Past

I keep it instead of Hasty Stroke, because most of the time one doesn't want or need to cancel the shadow card here or at least Armored Destrier could already do it. But sometimes the shadow card is nasty not because of the attack bonus dealt to the ennemy, but because of some global effect (on allies, attachments, readying...), so it can be useful to avoid that. Shadow of the Past has two avantages here :

• It is a neutral card (nice to flexibilize the resources in a tri-sphere)
• It's versatile enough to synergize 1) either with Henamarth or Far-Sighted effects to look what the encounter deck has in store for the next staging area and replace top encounter cards with convenient tempo, 2) or with Far-Sighted or Eldahir's action to have a better option as shadow card.

Readying

Several ways for that : Magic Ring, Light of Valinor, Greenwood Archer (in order to trigger We Are Not Idle for Bifur without any timing cost), Treebeard for its own needs or for Quickbeam.

Tale of Tinúviel

Remember that the MoTK's readying is limited to 1 per phase by the contract. So if you do not commit Eldahir to the quest, you will have to choose during the combat between the readying by Tinúviel and the one by the Destrier. It will depend if you want to defend with the Dunedain against two small ennemies or against a single big one.

Emergency buttons

Dori and Warden of Healing do a great job in that department, either to help Eldahir, or to face some archery damage.

Deus ex machina

Gandalf + Sneak Attack work very nicely thanks to the scrying options : we can plan if we want him to enter during phase 3 or 6, if he would quest, defend or attack, or which timing for playing it and which entering effect to trigger.

Adjustments

If the scenario lets you turtle, you may include Gather Information to the deck.

I play it solo but of course the Sentinel Trait of Eldahir is always a good thing in multiplayer.