Draft Decks

My buddy and I had a theory... could you build a working deck with semi-random heroes?

The rules of this deck-building exercise were straight forward. We would draw heroes from a selection and see if we could build two decks that could beat journey down the anduin. Here were the rules:

1) The first round, I would look at 5 random heroes. I would select one of the heroes, and then give him the 4 remaining to chose. I would not tell what hero I chose.

2) The next round, we both received a random hero from the entire hero pool. We were allowed one mulligan.

3) The last round, he looked at 7 random heroes (no overlap with the remaining 3 from round 1). He chose 1 and then passed the 6 remaining to me.

My selection went Erestor, Bard, then Legolas.

His went Lothiriel, Bilbo, Beorn.

Once we had the three heroes, we revealed what we had and went to work.

Light of Valinor on Legolas allowed me to ready Erestor each round.

He lost Lothiriel mid game to the continuous damage placing treacheries.

Bilbo did his plinking, and the allies that showed up ruled the day.

I recommend everyone try this at some point -- it's a lot of fun! (I think in Solo, there has to be a scale in hero card selection. Maybe 3-1-4).