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Over the course of the game's life, there's been an odd sort of half-baked sub-archetype for Gondor of discarding allies for some marginal utility; basically a lesser used (and notably worse) version of Rohan's main gimmick. ALeP's good buddy Thengel makes leaning into this mechanic a bit more viable, though. The end result is mostly just a Gondor swarm with extra steps, but it can be fun to put these things together using previously underused cards.
The Main Combo
- After revealing a card, exhaust Gavin to give Widfast a resource and apply surge.
- Discard Minas Tirith Lampwright; name "location".
- If the next card is an enemy or treachery, Gavin cancels it. If it's a location, the Lampwright does.
- Use Thengel's ability to search the top 5 cards of your deck for a (preferably more useful) Gondor (or Craftsman!) ally.
- Cycle the Lampwright with Knight of Belfalas, Stand and Fight, or Dwarven Tomb to do this every turn for the rest of the game.
Why Gildor?
You're going to end up with out-of-sphere allies in your hand, and you need some way to cycle them back in. This deck originally used Lothiriel for that, but I switched to MotK Gildor due to the access, which means the deck isn't completely reliant on the Lampwright and can play cheap allies like Mablung, Warden of Healing, or Master of the Forge to supplement your board state.
You could certainly swap in Gandalf + Wizard Pipe, and this deck would love to have Narya access, but I plan to play this in 4p and don't necessarily want to steal Gandalf from the table. You could even try Radagast for Wizard Pipe access and toss a copy or two of ally Bilbo in to make sure he finds it, but keep in mind that the more non-Gondor (or Craftsman!!) cards you have in the deck, the more likely Thengel's ability whiffs.
At some point, I also tried a version of this deck with the (criminally underutilized) MotK Morwen Steelsheen, who can conveniently take Horn of the Mark while using it for Gondor allies for easy card draw. The issue there is 1) no cycling cards out of your hand and 2) this deck doesn't really need card draw. Your good cards should stay in the deck, not in your hand.
Why ally Damrod? He's terrible.
He has marginal utility in 4p, especially if he comes out for free, but mostly he (and Derufin) are there to give you another trigger for Thengel on turns when the Lampwright isn't around to do his thing. Same goes for Morwen Steelsheen, or Honour Guard once you hit 40 threat.
Why Prince Imrahil?
Honestly, he's just stats. This deck doesn't hurt for resources so he's not a dead card in hand like Defender of Cair Andros or Knight of the White Tower would be. Swap him (or literally any other non-Lampwright, non-Knight of Belfalas ally in the deck) for whatever Gondor (OR CRAFTSMAN!!) ally you want and have fun.