Beorn’s damage flowchart 1.0

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Basic Concept

The deck leverages Song of Mocking on Glóin to convert damage on Beorn into resources. This gives you a permanent defender and strong economy. For additional security, Vigilant Guard can be played on warrior characters such as Gimli or Erebor Battle Master.

The Heroes

Besides the aforementioned heores, Bifur provides access to tech (mainly to heal Glóin and do some deck scrying).

Low-cost tech

Since this is an attachment-heavy deck with a lot of dwarf-mining tech, the best card is Galadriel, which not only allows to play attachments such as Self Preservation for free, but can also set up various shenanigans with Well-Equipped, King Under the Mountain or A Very Good Tale, because she doesn’t shuffle the deck but only reorders it. She gets even better in conjunction with Gildor Inglorion, both conspiring to trigger Ered Luin Miner or Hidden Cache. (By the way, Ered Luin Miner is a very good character in this deck. It usually comes free, and because of its relatively high printed cost, is a good kneeling target for A Very Good Tale.) It isn’t uncommon to have Self Preservation (or even Citadel Plate) and Song of Mocking on Glóin, plus 3 or 4 allies by the second round.

Starting hand and shenanigans

The ideal starting hand has Song of Mocking, Galadriel and Sneak Attack. I’ve also had good results with Sneak Attack on Gildor Inglorion if I have a costly attachment in hand such as Citadel Plate. Gildor Inglorion can put the costly attachment back into the deck, to be fetched by Well-Equipped (Gildor Inglorion can also swap the attachment with a Well-Equipped happening to be on top of the deck).

Threat management

Favor of the Valar is ideal for this deck, since it is an attachment that can be put into play by Galadriel. This deck doesn’t mind high threats and being engaged (to the contrary), so its only concern is to avoid threat-based elimination. If you have Erebor Hammersmith and/or To me! O my kinsfolk!, you can recycle Favor of the Valar and postpone elimination for quite a while.

Scenarios

This deck is most suited against enemy-heavy scenarios such as The Seventh Level of Khazad Dum or The Watcher in the Water. I also pitted it against Passage Through Mirkwood Nightmare and Watcher in the Water Nightmare, to pretty good results.