Ithilien Blade -> the reason why Standard is broken

[Witchkingx5]

It's a real life Deck and I neither have Ring of Doom nor 4 copies of The Faithful Stone...

Faramir, BoQ
The Ring of Rings

Freeps:

1x Denethor, LoMT (starting)
1x Watcher at Sarn Ford (starting)
3x Aragorn, Thorongil
2x Halbarad

2x Gondorian Merchant

1x Anduril, Sword that was broken (and it's still broken!)
2x Aragorn's Bow, Ranger's Longbow
1x Faramir's Bow, Ithilien Longbow
4x Ithilien Blade
3x Ranger's Cloak
1x Footman's Armor
1x Scroll of Isildur
1x SSoO

1x Elendil's Army
1x Gondorian Servant
1x Faramir's Company

2x Hearts Raised
3x Invigorated
2x Ranger of the North
1x Houses of Healing
1x The Faithful Stone

So, and as for strategy, there's a very simple way:

At Site 3, exert Denethor to grab Houses of Healing, then grap Ithilien Blade, heal him, grab Gondorian Merchant, heal again.. you actually have 3 extra cards to draw with Houses of Healing, so you take Gondorian Merchant, and as for the situation several copies of Ithilien Blade, maybe Ranger's Longbow, or whatever is most important in that situation. Once you've set up like that, it's nearly impossible to kill this Deck. It never happened before, and I hope the quote will stay like that.

Any suggestions? Comments, besides that Standard is broken?

[legolas3333]

well what happens if your opponent draws 8 cards then dumps like Gats +  Gothmog + all those other awful cards?

[Witchkingx5]

I kill them with Ithlilien Blade.

It's actually not so ahrd to use Ithilien Blade more than once with each comp when you've got some Invigorated, Ranger's Cloak or Faramir's Company. You also have Ranger's Longbow and especially The Faithful stone. As I said, pull those cards you need and just don't double-move during that turn. It's pretty easy.

[MuadDib85]

You've got nothing to make minions roaming in the manuever phase to get max use out of ithilien blade. So once minions are past their home site, no more discarding minions...

Soldier's Cache, Gondorian Merchant should be added.

There are alot of decks in standard that are more broken than this. I think a few different shadows would easily take down this freeps. Especially Forest Nazgul. Lost in The Woods, Dark Horseman will cause problems.. Every standard deck needs to have at least two races. Adding a few threats will make Ranger's longbow useless, basically your only protection against Nazgul.

Decks that use that Denethor get punished in standard. Drawing two cards for the shadow player per exert on Denethor is too costly. Spirit of The White Tree is way better than Ranger of The North.

If you want broken.. Run Gil-Galad, High King of The Noldor with namarie and leaving forever.

[Witchkingx5]

Ooops, I forgot to add my 2 Gondorian Merchants...

What do you think of adding Ginli, Eager Hunter as Nertea Protection?

I don't have Spirit of the White Tree....