Noble Leaders / Artifacts (freep only)

[Ishmar]

Here i am to post my first deck

Ring Bearer:
Boromir, Bearer of Council
The One Ring, The Ring of Rings

Starting:
Aragorn, Strider
Denethor, Lord of Minas Tirith
Faramir, Prince of Ithilien

Companions:
Elendil, The Tall x1
Gandalf, Returned x2

Conditions:
Noble Leaders x4
Kings Legacy x1
No Stranger to the Shadows x1 (optionable, not sure of this)
Watch and Wait x1

Possessions:
Aragorn's Bow x1
Coat of Mail x1
Footman's Armor x1
Flaming Brand x1
Blade of Gondor x1 (maybe a normal one to put on Faramir in case)
Shield of Boromir x1
Anduril, Sword That Was Broken x1
Narsil, Blade of the Faithful x1
Glamdring, Foe-hammer x1

Artifacts:
Ring of Barahir x1
The Shards of Narsil x1
Seeing Stone of Orthanc x1
Throne of Minas Tirith x1 (thinking about x2)
Scroll of Isildur x1
Sapling of the White Tree x4

Events:
Defenses Long Held x3

Total 35



I really like the Gandalf splash and Gandalf, Returned beacause if you draw Glamdring, Foe-hammer you don't have to keep it in your hand until you draw Gandalf (and it reinforce tokens ) so you have just played Gandalf, Returned and you have a 9 strength companion who remove burdens and reinforce tokens and you can play the Watch and Wait on Elendil for easy burdens removal. (but Gandalf, Returned is very expensive sob )
I put on also some Defenses Long Held just to have some event in the deck, because is not funny a deck without events
Boromir is really useful to discard high vitality minions (with lowe strength obviously ) choosing to wound him 2 times and you take 1 wound and 1 burden.
In case someone suggest to change Footman's armor with Armor... no Footman's is really good to be used to discard Shadow cards, because this deck will win with the freeps and you have to draw a lot to build up a really strong company
The tactics is obviously to run 3-6-9-win

Well here i'm... i don't know which Shadow use to pair with


(ps. i'm playing Lotr only with my friends and we don't play any cards with Hunter ability and the old 1..9 sites)

[Hennessy]

I dont know how good is this deck in play, but for me, it looks a little bit fragile to be able to move 3-6-9 and gives too much tokens.
But my advices: I like the Faramir, Captain of Gondor more and you can also start with him. I would throw away Coat of Mail and add some weapon on Faramir. Potential from amount of artifacts and Gandalf is not fully used. I would focus on Elendil or Gandalf and leave the other one home. With Elendil, you have strong companion with Narsil, if you want to play Gandalf, take out some Sapling of the White tree and play at least Out of the High Airs.
And you should definitely play The One Ring, AtAR imho.

[gk1964]

I would drop Shards of Narsil. 1 throne should be sufficient as Denethor can get it for you if it hasn't shown up by site 3.

I would leave the Gandalf cards out as well. With Scroll of Isildur corruption should not be a big issue.

I would add Houses of Healing. Consider adding Stewards Legacy and The Highest Quality. They can be an effective combo in this deck.

I think a generic sword for Faramir/Denethor or else Faramir's sword. Maybe a couple of Ranger's cloaks.

Good luck with the deck.
gk

[legolas3333]

Shadowfax, Greatest Of The Meareras would be good here...

[Anautikus]

Just pull a better Aragorn with the Prancing Pony. Strider doesn't help much in this deck.

[SomeRandomDude]

Actually, I wouldn't, Anautikus, I would run a few copies of Aragorn, Isildur's Heir, since you're running the Denethor engine already.

You should also run Houses of Healing and Heirs of Gondor.

You can drop No Stranger To Shadows, Aragorn's Bow (not enough wounding emphasis to be worth it, plus you're drawing into Gorn...), King's Legacy (not worth the card slot without Isildur).

Faramir, Captain of Gondor also seems to be a better choice of Faramir.

I would also drop Saplings for Guarded City.

[Ishmar]

Thanks a lot to everyone, really helpful

I think i'll defenetly go for Faramir, Captain of Gondor so i can use also on him Defenses Long Held in case, add some Gondorian Blade (for famarir and denethor, mainly faramir) and a 1^ site pull to Aragorn, King in Exile so i have a free heal on Faramir and Denethor and drop the NSttS, asap i'll post the correction