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| BearerOfWisdom |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:42 pm |
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So here is an idea that has play tested quite well. Not tournament legal unless in the extended format.
The Sites-
Green Dragon Inn
Fords of Isen
Slopes of Orodruin
City Gates
Anduin Banks
Dammed Gate Stream
Trollshaw Forest
Helm’s Gate
Caras Galadhon
The Ring could be any of the ones that give you a strength bonus, I have used The One Ring- Answer To All Riddles
Companions-
Smeagol- Bearer Of Great Secrets
Sam- Nice Sensible Hobbit
Frodo- Frenzied Fighter
Fellowship Cards-
4X- Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
1X- Called To Mordor
2X- Gladden Homestead
2X- Nice Fish
1X- Don’t Look At Them
2X- Fishing Boat
4X- Naked Waste
1X- Bilbo Baggins Retired Adventurer
4X- A Promise
1X- Rare Good Ballast
1X- A Light In His Mind
1X- Tom Bombadil’s Hat
1X- Mithril Coat Dwarf-Mail (either type of Mithril will do though)
1X- Hobbit Sword
1X- Orc Armor
1X- Sting Baggins Heirloom
2X- Sudden Fury
The Shadow-
4X- Gollum Mad Thing
4X- Shelob Her Ladyship (Last Child of Ungoliant can be used as needed)
1X- Unabated Malice
4X- It’s My Birthday
2X- Hobbitses Are Dead
2X- We Must Have It
4X- Captured By The Ring
2X- Chasm’s Edge
2X- Slippery As Fishes
1X- They Stole It
3X- Sweeter Meats
3X- Master Broke His Promise
THE STRATEGY-
Your Fellowship strategy is all focused on just surviving. Each Hobbit has a written text that prevents from being overwhelmed unless trippled. Also with Sudden Fury this allows your fellowship to gain as it loses. In order to double hop you have to use Smeagol to discard all minions in the regroup. The burdens can be removed with A Light In His Mind or if your opponent is playing any sort of burdening or threat deck Bombadils Hat is an awesome way to keep those burdens from piling up too quick. To keep the ring bearer from being overwhelmed you have Sting on Frodo, as well as Fishing Boat on Smeagol. This allows you to use the abundance of tokens. Just in case Smeagol wins a skirmish you also have the ability to heal with Nice Fish. The strength pump was chosen because of it’s ability to play from the discard pile. With such a small deck this makes it play much better for the survivability. If things get too rough, kill Frodo off and make Sam your ring bearer. You shouldn’t need this until the end of the game if at all.
MINIONS- There is alot of ways to pump up Gollum and with good reason. Master Broke His Promise wounds in the regroup and requires Gollum to exert three times to do it. Thus the wound prevention with Sweeter Meats. This also forces the fellowship to a minus 1 move limit. The only hinge here is Rohan, that is where Shelob comes in. Prevent the most dangerous person from skirmishing (like that pesky wounding Eowyn) and let that make the free peoples think twice. With the amount of possibilities to pull Gollum out you should get him every site. They Stole It also makes the free people think about how they are going to assign. If they double hop and you have both your minions on the board suddenly you can direct wound twice in one skirmish (or four times against a hobbit). Ultimately you are not going to minion kill but severely slow down the fellowship.
Susceptability-
Well, I thought the swarm would kill this but I just played against a friend that had over 20 minions on the table and I survived it pretty well.
Looking at this it would have to be huge cheap minions or a really well done burdening deck. I will continue the play testing and keep you all updated. Needless to say this is quite an enjoyable and surprising deck to play against someone. |
| I tend to use Gandalf alot. There isn't any other character in the game as useful or powerful. I also focus on decks that work together free people and minion. |
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| Pipeweed |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:51 pm |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:02 pm |
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smeagol si the ring-baerer main grievance this reads like a deck clinic not an article.
it is a deck list with strategy of the deck. |
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:27 pm |
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Exactly my thoughts. I don’t see a remarkable strategy here, just a deck...
Also, if Smeagol’s the RB, you can’t kill Frodo off and make Sam the RB. This came up with my Fried Frodo article, as well. Sam can only become the RB if Frodo was the RB when he was killed. |
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| BearerOfWisdom |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:07 pm |
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I just found out about the Smeagol Ring Bearer issue. It still plays well. As far as it being in the wrong forum? It is a strategy article, the last one I wrote focused on the mechanics of things and everyone screamed for a deck list. I don’t get it... Oh well. Worth a shot.
I put the strategy down, shadow- stop the fellowship from double hopping. Fellowship- Survive and double using Smeagols ability. Even without being able to transfer the ring this deck works and it is a strategy. |
| I tend to use Gandalf alot. There isn't any other character in the game as useful or powerful. I also focus on decks that work together free people and minion. |
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| bobtheorc |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:13 pm |
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| elf lvr |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:43 pm |
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| I does look more like a decklist. You made a strategy out of the deck, not a deck out of the strategy. Rohan WILL mess up this shadow, the only fellowship of mine that my gollum corruption doesn’t work well against is my rohan. There are too many strong, damage+1 companions to beat them down with her ladyship. but if they double and you can play shelob twice, thats two unassignable companions. DEADLY! |
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| PorterTroll |
![]() Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:44 pm |
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try to expand on your thoughts and delve deeper into your strategy, i will wait to vote on this deck until you have more thoroughly explained your strategy. (tell me WHY you picked the cards you did)  thanks |
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
![]() Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:19 pm |
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Also, your companions should have commas, not dashes, after their title. As it is, they’re not linking.
How the heck did you survive a 20 minion swarm with three companions?? That would be 18 minions on poor Smeagol! Even if they’re Strength 3 (not very likely...  ) that’s still, um, 54 strength...um, yeah, that’s an overwhelm. I don’t think it’s likely that your opponent would leave Frodo, Frenzied Fighter unassigned.
I also don’t like the fact that it’s a bit boring to read. Why? Because you gave a decklist, and then gave some strategy to use with it. No thorough examination of tactics or anything. You also should use more paragraphs. |
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| PorterTroll |
![]() Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:48 pm |
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yeah, theres no way someone can get 20 minions out in one turn against any deck. but if he did, what shadow was he playing? 
Id like to take this fellowhsip on with my trolls, see how smeagol holds up against 3 porter trolls, a tower troll, 2 beastly olog-hai, an ordnance grunt, the cave trolls keyward,and of course, the cave troll himself!  |
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