14 - The Long Dark (Progression Series)

This is another fellowship continuing on in my goal to play through all of the quests in release order to learn how all (or most) of the cards interact with one another. The first fellowship for the quests in the core set can be found here, and it contains a slightly more detailed overview of what I'm going for with building these decks. As always, any feedback is appreciated so that I can continue to learn more!

I really wanted to try out some of the new secrecy cards that had been showing up in the last few adventure packs, so I build the Frodo deck entirely around getting to use some of those toys. There aren't a ton of big allies worth cheating in with Timely Aid, so it didn't work super well, but I had fun with the deck regardless (and it worked well enough in this quest just by having Resourceful on a few heroes). The Galadhrim's Greeting and Sneak Attack + Gandalf were enough to get me into Secrecy in every game that I played with these decks.

The Lore Deck is also fairly straightforward. Hama is there to recur Feint a few times if one of the Trolls manages to sneak through, and Bilbo with Burning Brand, Arwen, Ring Mail, and Fast Hitches was usually enough to defend pretty much everything else. Both decks have plenty enough card draw and questing to power through most of the lost tests, and enough other direct damage/threat control tools to keep things from spiraling out of control.

The quest itself was fairly easy, so it was nice to be able to try out some different hereos and strategies from what I have been relying on in previous quests.