Arwen Is The Steward Now (full cardpool) 1.0

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Here's another version of my original deck, which was restricted to just RCO content, but now open to the full cardpool.

I wanted to keep the fundamentals - same heroes, same Steward+ Elven-light card draw engine, same AVGT combos, while tweaking the deck to be more powerful while keeping the Dunedain + Noldor + Gondor themes.

Here are the most significant changes in order of importance:

1. Sneak Attack + Gandalf combo and A Test of Will are gone - I don't like to rely on these if I don't have to.

2. Added Glorfindel + Guardian of Rivendell to help boost the combat capabilities of the deck. They also both work nicely with AVGT, which can circumvent the extra cost on the Guardian, and get Glorfindel into the discard pile faster.

3. New card draw support:

   • Swapped Galadhrim Minstrel for Spare Pipe. Same effect, but cheaper and also beefs up Denethor.
   • Added Dúnedain Pipe + Bilbo Baggins to fetch any pipe. Bilbo is in Rivendell, so it's still thematic :)
   • Added Master of the Forge to find Steward of Gondor faster.
   • Imladris Stargazer primarily supports AVGT, so you know exactly when to play it and which allies you should exhaust to get the most out of it. But it's also amazing for knowing when it's best to play Spare Pipe or Master of the Forge to fetch an event or attachment, after which your deck gets shuffled so you have a fresh top 5 cards again. Also helps optimize any other card draw effect, like Elven-Light or Dunedain Pipe, so you fetch exactly the card you need.

4. Swapping Daughter of the Nimrodel for Warden of Healing for better & cheaper healing; plus it's more thematic.

5. Adding A Burning Brand to further beef up Denethor.

6. Adding Ring of Barahir + Sword that was Broken for Aragorn to get more Lore resources. I don't really like how unbalanced the sword is.

I still need to test this deck, the sideboard is for cards I'm considering swapping in to try on future play-throughs.