The Birds and the Trees 1.0

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Let me tell you ‘bout the birds and the trees…

This deck came about after one of our group meetings playing against The Black Serpent. That day I was playing a blue green control deck and while I did cancel a lot of cards I just felt like my deck didn’t pull its weight. Dissatisfied I started thinking about another deck to play. I had been playing a lot of Noldor decks and wanted something different. (I am a theme player to a fault.) My mind went back to Authraw’s Many Meetings deck which ran Pippen/Merry/Gandalf. Gandalf casts a huge shadow in multi-player so I wanted to replace him. Treebeard hero seemed the answer except that Treebeard ally is your only easy source of ramp in an ent deck. So I swapped in Quickbeam as the hero and made Treebeard an ally. This also meant my starting threat was only 24.

This is an ent deck and the first 60% of an ent deck builds itself. For the remainder I put in red and green hobbit cards… But I wasn’t happy with the resource balance because most of the hobbits are green and Pippen was my only lore hero. I needed more red. As I was looking through my tactics binder for more tactics hobbit allies I saw the eagles and I realized that The Eagles are Coming is a fantastic card in the deck as it thins the deck even further to help find Treebeard with Entmoot if needed. So it became an ent/eagle deck. Pippin and Merry become 2 willpower questers and resource generators.

There isn’t much strategy to it, but you are looking to drop a 2 resource tactics ally on turn 1 and Treebeard on turn 2. This means you want to look for Treebeard in your opening hand. With Entmoot, Daeron's Runes and The Eagles Are Coming! your odds are pretty good, but make sure you sequence those cards to maximize your odds. After that you are basically trying to drop and ent or two every turn. Vanish from Sight is only in the deck so I can play Resourceful for 1. I like the first one on Pippen (green) and the second on Merry (red) if I get that far. I usually play the eagles later in the game and try to drop an Eagles of the Misty Mountains before Vassal of the Windlord or Winged Guardian, but that obviously depends on how the game is going.