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Juustoparta 52

Made this deck to tackle The Crossing of Poros which I played a few times with ally swarm rush decks but failed miserably due to low powered starts and slow build up time and revealing Desolate Land. Figured out its better to quest hard as early as possible to cancel extra 3 stage cards shuffled into deck and maintain as few characters as possible.

Ins:

  • Boromir as tech against The Black Serpent.
  • Erestor for extra draw with Elven-light
  • Gandalf for sneaking. Mainly used to deal damage or lower threat but before Elven-light is online and pulling weight he can draw once.
  • Gimli for doing extra work.
  • Glorfindel for discarding and allways ready.
  • Legolas for draw and good damage.

  • Lindir was for emergency draw early game. Can work well with Sneak Attack but mostly useless when in lat game.

  • Celebrian stone maximizes Arwen willpower for one card and is not an ally.
  • Dunedain Mark for Elladan.
  • Dunedain Remby for Elrohir.
  • Dunedain Warnign for Elrohir.
  • Elven Spear. One for each bro.
  • Light of Valinor slaps onto Elrohir. Arwen is allways questing but doesn't do much anything else. Extra willpower is needed in this deck and putting it on Elrohir ensures he stays ready for combat.
  • Magic Ring is jack of all trades. Mainly played on Elrohir for healing after attacks or readying fro attacking twice.
  • Rivendell Blade. Once for each bro.
  • Steward of Gondor for Arwen to draw lots of cards from Elven-lights.
  • Unexpected Courage. One for each sibling. First Elladan or Elrohir to ready after questing depending.
  • A test of Will. Nothing more to say.
  • Elven-light. Bruh, do you even draw?
  • Feint was teched against The Black Serpent after advancing quest or annoing southron outrider to get +3 and not using it so he doesn't bounce back to staging area nor gives more cards to 4th stage to deal with.
  • Proud Hunters for machine gunning with Elladan
  • Sneak Attack for Gandalf and techy Lindir

Outs:

  • Errand-rider while good in other scenarios for distributing wealth doesn't do much as Arwen is handing them over very easily.

  • Honour Guard is honourable mention but not against Poros.

  • Armored Destried for cheap multi-block. Wasn't needing this as this is quite light on enemies.
  • Heir of Mardil for extra readying on demand with Arwen. Didn't feel need to play.
  • Rune-master. Not quite needed as this deck is very light on resource hungry cards.
  • Elrond's Councel against is for another quests which require threat management.
  • Revealed in Wrath is for another quests where there are lots of nasty non-unique enemies like nameless enemies in Foundation of Stone
  • Keep Watch was not in because we were in hurry to get out from Harad.
  • Rally the West was out for same reason.

How to play this deck:

Quest hard. Defend hard. Attack hard. All characters are super stars on their own domain.

3 comments

Aug 24, 2018 Adven96 1

Seems like a very interesting deck. I get the feeling Arwen Undómiel is a very essential hero for a couple of good decks and I wish I had some more copies of her. Thank you for the work so far! I will try it out, allthough I have not the Magic Ring in my card pool.

One question: Its every time interesting what cards you would put out in the most cases, if you have such a big sideboard. I think this deck is even good enough for the most scenarios if you change some cards from the sideboard with. I would play the deck more as a Jack of all trades besides "the black serpent".

Anyhow, I'm motivated to bring the bros up again, because I played them long time ago ;)

Aug 24, 2018 Adven96 1

*have not played them long time ago.

Aug 25, 2018 Juustoparta 52

@Adven96, Thank you for your comments and question. Sideboard was more or less like a pile of cards left over from 'binder raid' when building this deck. Then I added some more cards from memory when playing with trio long time ago.

All in all this deck is solid and can be changed altered to pursue other goals. Magic Ring is more or less luxury bling for a bro. Proud Hunters is also situational as Arwen Undómiel hands resources over far more straightforwarded manner and allies can be tooled agains other quests but Gandalf and Glorfindel are almost essentials.

As for sideboard I'd put Errand-rider, Honour Guard, Armored Destrier and Rune-master back into binder and for another types of quests Veteran Sword-elf, Guardian of Rivendell are good ally choices and mixes well with Lords of the Eldar.

Arwen Undómiel is essential for this deck to fix bros' resources.

This kind of deck is fun to play as it plays few allies and centers around heroes. Just avoid attachment hate.

(Just yesterday I slayed Hill Troll from JdtA on first turn with Sneak Attack + Gandalf for damage and defense. Attacked with bros having Elven Spear + Rivendell Blade and ditched a card for damage. Good times.)