QotW: Passage Through Mirkwood - Round 1 KO
McDog3 477
Description
The community discord came up with a wonderful idea of introducing "quest of the week"s where a quest is picked and the community plays it, gives back reports on how it went, and there are a few side achievements that can be strived for as well. First up is the Core + Dark of Mirkwood campaign, so Passage Through Mirkwood is the initial stop. I've built a meme team here where the simple idea is to win the quest on the first round. All it needs is for the questing deck to mulligan for Nenya. I rounded out each deck with unplayable cards, who needs more cards! :)
Strategy:
- Play The One Ring on Frodo, then Power of Command and Nenya (saving Frodo's resource)
- Commit Rosie, Frodo and Eowyn to the quest (9 total committed)
- Trigger Power of Command, adding one willpower to Galadriel and Rosie (10 total committed)
- Trigger Frodo to ready Rosie
- Trigger Nenya to add 5 willpower to Rosie (15 total committed)
- Trigger Rosie to add 8 willpower to herself (23 total committed)
- Absolutely smash through stage 1
- Have the attacker deck engage an enemy (a puny spider hopefully)
- Take the enemy attack undefended (it's okay, Aragorn has 5 hp for a reason)
- Attack back with Legolas and Aragorn, destroying it
- Trigger Legolas' response to add 2 progress to stage 2 and advance to stage 3 (NOTE: This is where RNG comes in, it's a 50% chance to get the stage 3 card required to win round 1, you need the stage where the objective is to destroy Ungoliant's Spawn)
- Assuming you got the correct stage 3 and Ungoliant's spawn is now in the staging area, trigger Aragorn's response to engage Ungoliant's Spawn
- Trigger Eowyn to have exactly the 10 required to kill Ungoliant's Spawn (remember Aragorn provides -1 to the enemy)
This hero lineup can beat nightmare as well, however the combat deck needs to be slightly less memey. You'll need to find a card to play that provides additional , whether it's an attachment that can go on Eowyn or an ally. (Ungoliant's Spawn has one additional HP, so Eowyn herself is unfortunately unable to destroy it.)
INCREDIBLE fellowship, 10/10 perfect ally choices.