Powerful Guide - Forest Guls

[MuadDib85]

I have had much success with this deck lately. It's basically all I've been using in standard format on gccg for the past couple of months. The freeps has won against Troll Swarm, Reload, Forest Guls, Orc Swarm, Warg Wounding, Orc corruption and heaps of other crud. The only recent loss I can recall was against Tempest's Ferny site control deck (which is awesome).

Gandalf with the herb bag and his spells blows everything away!

Thanks to Olorin for convincing me to build a Powerful guide deck.


Ring-bearer   17R28   • Faramir, Bearer of Quality

The One Ring   11R1   • The One Ring, The Ring of Rings

Adventure Deck
1   11S231   Caras Galadhon
2   11U227   Anduin Banks
3   11S266   Woody-End
4   11S260   Trollshaw Forest
5   18U139   Steward's Tomb
6   13S189   Crossroads of the Fallen Kings
7   11S251   Old Forest Road
8   11S230   Buckland Homestead
9   18U136   Mithlond

Free Peoples Draw Deck

1x   0P56   • Ghan-buri-Ghan, Chieftain of the Woses Start
1x   9R+26   • Radagast, The Brown
1x   15R38   • Treebeard, Enraged Shepherd
2x   15R29   • Gandalf, Powerful Guide
2x   14R6   • Grimbeorn, Beorning Chieftain
1x   7R324   • Pippin, Wearer of Black and Silver Start
1x   18R38   • Aragorn, Heir to the Throne of Gondor
1x   11R35   • Glamdring, Foe-hammer
1x   18R26   • Radagast's Herb Bag
1x   17R24   • Shadowfax, Greatest of the Mearas
1x   11R34   • Gandalf's Staff, Ash-staff
1x   0P57   • Radagast's Staff
1x   7U93   Footman's Armor
2x   13R37   • Pallando, Far-travelling One
2x   15U27   Be Gone!
1x   13C32   For a While Less Dark
4x   15U32   Momentous Gathering
2x   7R50   Terrible and Evil
1x   13U31   The Flame of Anor
2x   12C34   Traveled Leader
1x   7C41   Intimidate
1x   12R35   Watch and Wait
1x   17U107   • Merry, In the Bloom of Health Start
1x   18R18   Beorning Axe

Free Peoples Total   33

Shadow Draw Deck

2x   12U161   Black Rider
1x   12R174   • Ulaire Cantea, Black Assassin
1x   7R211   • Ulaire Cantea, Faster Than Winds
1x   17R140   • Ulaire Enquea, Duplicitous Lieutenant
1x   13R182   • Ulaire Enquea, Sixth of the Nine Riders
3x   0P110   • Ulaire Nelya, Third of the Nine Riders
2x   12U180   • Ulaire Toldea, Black Shadow
3x   11U212   Lost in the Woods
4x   12R162   Dark Approach
1x   15R185   • Ulaire Lemenya, Eternally Threatening
3x   17R143   • Ring of Terror
1x   17R38   • Saruman, Servant of Sauron
1x   12U184   • The Witch-king's Beast, Fell Creature
3x   0P108   • The Witch-king, Captain of the Nine Riders
2x   19P38   • Ulaire Nertea, Dark Horseman
1x   13R140   • Sauron, Dark Lord of Mordor
1x   17R141   • Ulaire Otsea, Duplicitous Specter
2x   18U132   All Life Flees

Shadow Total   33

[Olorin]

Hi there,

if you use Be Gone! to weaken minions in the maneuver phase, you could use Aragorn Thorongil to exert in maneuver minions with high vitality; then you'll have it easier with Terrible and evil
you know, I use Aragorn's bow too. Gwaihir is nice on that Gandalf too, so my version of that deck get a lot of threats.

about the shadow:
personally I like Nazgul, but however, they lost somehow their threatening power... still not having found what I've been looking for

[macheteman]

great U2 reference. 

[MuadDib85]

Hi Olorin! Given that it was you who originally inspired me to build this deck... Could you show me the decklist that you run? This by far my favourite deck and has an unbelievable win/loss ratio. It is very hard to stop me from getting to site 9 first. Besides the cards that you mentioned, I want to also add Out Of The High Airs, however 33 is as big as I want it, so the question is what cards to remove..?

[Olorin]

Well, yeah, it's a very nice deck. I won last "European Championship" (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, etc.) with this kind of deck.
I will try to post my decklist here for you. I play also Anduril 17R for site liberation, so I guess I play 34/34 or so...

Out Of The High Airs would be a nice feature... where's the room for it

btw: there's a nice story about Fierce in Despair and the Board is set with this Gandy PG  

I had a nice game with your aussie mate smallman, which is indeed a very good player: I trippled vs. his troll swarm deck from site 3 to 6; then he said: good game, no more troll in deck 

great U2 reference.  

...yes, it is

[MuadDib85]

Here's what I come up with.

Out:
1x HTTTOG
1x Pallando, FTO
1x Intimidate
1x Footman's Armor

In:
1x Thorongil
1x Gwaihir
1x Ranger's Longbow
1x Sword That Was Broken

1x   0P56   • Ghan-buri-Ghan, Chieftain of the Woses
1x   9R+26   • Radagast, The Brown
1x   15R38   • Treebeard, Enraged Shepherd
2x   15R29   • Gandalf, Powerful Guide
2x   14R6   • Grimbeorn, Beorning Chieftain
1x   7R324   • Pippin, Wearer of Black and Silver
1x   11R35   • Glamdring, Foe-hammer
1x   18R26   • Radagast's Herb Bag
1x   17R24   • Shadowfax, Greatest of the Mearas
1x   11R34   • Gandalf's Staff, Ash-staff
1x   0P57   • Radagast's Staff
1x   13R37   • Pallando, Far-travelling One
2x   15U27   Be Gone!
1x   13C32   For a While Less Dark
4x   15U32   Momentous Gathering
2x   7R50   Terrible and Evil
1x   13U31   The Flame of Anor
2x   12C34   Traveled Leader
1x   12R35   Watch and Wait
1x   17U107   • Merry, In the Bloom of Health
1x   18R18   Beorning Axe
1x   15R55   • Aragorn, Thorongil
1x   15R56   • Aragorn's Bow, Ranger's Longbow
1x   17R27   • Anduril, Sword That Was Broken
1x   17R20   • Gwaihir, The Windlord

Free Peoples Total   33

[MuadDib85]

And now that I think about it... The Board Is Set would be cool as well....