The Dead Marshes

Bogoran 20

Description

I'm going to start making fellowships of most of the decks I'm using to progress through the quests 2-handed, with straightforward titles. I think it would be really useful if searching the name of quests in the decks or fellowships areas of Ringsdb always resulted in some viable decks for that quest.

My collection as of building these included the first two cycles, Khazad-Dum, and both Hobbit saga boxes. This fellowship defeated the quest on both of its first two attempts.

For the Dead Marshes and its many escape tests, willpower is king. With these decks I looked to maximize willpower on my heroes, so that from the start I could quest successfully while still sending 1-2 characters on the escape test. Elladan and Elrohir were chosen for their significant willpower as well as because I had never tried them before. Bard the Bowman excels at taking down the Giant Marsh Worms quickly before they can regenerate, and can take care of the Snipers with the Great Yew Bow equipped.

In the Lore/Spirit deck, Glorfindel with Light of Valinor was an obvious choice to be able to both quest and keep Gollum from escaping. Beravor is mostly there for her well-rounded stats and the card draw if we're struggling, and Denethor with A Burning Brand can tank the worms while Bard and Glorfindel blow them up.

Nothing too crazy in the design of the decks themselves, just a compilation of the good cards available from the first couple cycles, with an emphasis on getting willpower on the table.

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