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| Anautikus |
![]() Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:18 pm |
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Remember back when The Two Towers block came out and Gimli and his Elven buddies were cool? I remember the old Towers deck i had like that, but it wasnt all too great. With the release of new cards from sets 11-17, i decided to recreate the Alliance of Elves and Gimli.
The deck revolves around elves and Gimli of course, with Legolas being the main focus of the elves.
The Deck
The Companions
RB Galadriel, Bearer of Wisdom (starter)
The One Ring, Answer to All Riddles
x1 Legolas, Of the Grey Company (starter)
x1 Gimli, Skilled Defender (starter)
x1 Elrond, Venerable Lord
x2 Lorien Swordsmen
The Possessions and Conditions
x4 Elven Bow
x3 Sword of the Fallen
x2 Elven Sword
x1 Gimli’s Battle Axe
x1 Hand Axe
x1 Ring of Fury
x1 Dwarven Bracers
x1 Shoulder to Shoulder
The Events
x4 Quick As May Be
x2 Baruk Kazad
x4 Double Shot
x3 Nocked
x3 Many Miles
x2 Mighty Shot
(total 37)
The Strategy
The main focus of this deck is, as one can plainly see, wounding. With all the events in this deck focusing on wounding minions, they will probably not survive the archery phase. The great combo in this deck is the Lorien Swordsman/Sword of the Fallen Combo, which reduces the strength of any minion by 3 for each wound! But, hypothetically, if someone were to use, say...swarms? That’s where Mighty Shot is most effective, because it raises the archery total for each minion with cost 2 or less. Pretty sweet. If the minions do survive, they will have some wounds, and the companions can handle losing one or two skirmishes. Then there’s Gimli to kill off any exhausted guys. Luck can also be a crucial factor, for if there’s an Elven card on the top of your deck, one can wound a minion with Legolas, or later heal an elf with Elrond.
Another strategy of this deck is to ditch Gimli, Skilled Defender, and use Gimli, Bearer of Grudges, rumil, silvan elf, and orophin, silvan elf, for a decklist as such:
The Companions
RB Gimli, Bearer of Grudges
The One Ring, The Ring of Rings
x1 Rumil, Silvan Elf (starting)
x1 Orophin, Silvan Elf (starting)
x1 Legolas, Of the Grey Company or Legolas, Of the woodland realm (depends on your meta)
x1 Elrond, Witness to History
x2 Elven Guardian
The Possessions and Conditions
x4 Elven Bow
x4 Sword of the Fallen
x1 Gimli’s Battle Axe, Trusted Weapon
x1 Hand Axe
x1 Ring of Fury
x1 Dwarven Bracers
x1 Shoulder to Shoulder
x1 Proud and Able
x1 Into the West
The Events
x4 Quick As May Be
x2 Baruk Khazad
x4 Double Shot
x3 Nocked
x3 Many Miles
x1 Mighty Shot
(total 38 )
The Strategy
With cards like double shot being rare and tough to attain, they can be subbed with lesser rares such as Break the Charge or more Baruk Khazads. The deck isn’t too hard to make as most of the cards are commons and uncommons. Many improvisations rare cards can be made as well. The main focus is to wound insanely in the maneuver and archery phases so that no minions survive. And if a big minion persists, concentrate all the archery on it, and take out the little guys in the skirmishes! Fun fun fun.
*Thanks for the advice NBarden! 
Hope you guys enjoy this deck  Please review. Thx!  |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:47 pm |
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Nice deck. My brother ran one a lot like this for quite some time.
The Gimli RB deck is the best. Sweet!
I would consider running Orophin, Silvan Elf and Rumil, Silvan Elf instead of your Lorien Swordsman. They’re better. And Elven Guardian would be cool too.
Where’s Legolas, of the Woodland Realm? He’s a must have for archery nowadays, and packs a punch vs hunter decks. Hunter 1 is nothing to sneeze at as well. But if you fell like you need a more reliable Legolas, Legolas, Greenleaf of Legolas, Son of Thranduil would be nice. Legolas, Woodland Emissary with Legolas’ Bow might be a nice addition as well.
One thing I noticed is that you seem to use somewhat of a telepathy theme without developing it. (Legolas, of the Grey Company, Elrond, Venerable Lord). Using Legolas, of the Woodland Realm or one of the other copies of Legolas, this problem would be solved. Elrond, Witness to History would be a good alternative to Elrond, Venerable Lord, because it gives you some much needed event recursion, and can even bring back some Elven Bows that get discarded.
All in all, good deck, but you need some way to bring those events back. Because once they’re gone with that deck, they’re gone. And that means that the end game falls apart. Elrond, Witness to History would solve this problem.
A lot of changes to the deck also depends on the shadow side. What shadow do you pair it with? |
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![]() Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:41 pm |
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hmm interesting...
honestly, for legolas, i got tired of the ones everyone used (set 1 and set 3) and woodland emmisary wasn’t working, so i wanted to put a new spin on things. And after i ran my deck against my friends, i thought elrond, witness to history just might be better, but i couldnt think of a card to get an elven event on top of my deck in the archery phase  so i stuck with venerable lord. the rumil/orophin combo is nice, too
My shadow for this deck is classic Nazi corruption using the twilight nazis with a splash of a couple of shadows block cards. |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:28 am |
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![]() Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:20 am |
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yea hahah
it wuld be pretty awesome though
its my dream card hah |
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| legoles3333 |
![]() Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:02 am |
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hmm well back in the tower block days, i ran a deck like this i think it was like this
Frodo, Tired traveller
the one ring, Answer to all the riddles
Legolas, Elven comrade
Gimli, Unbidden guest
companions
lorien swordsman x4
possessions
hand axe x4
elven bow x4
events
Burhak Khazad x4
break the charge x4
Quick as may be x4
conditions
Splendor of their banners x4 |
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| Anautikus |
![]() Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:52 pm |
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yea i had one liek that too
but with release of the new cards, it was fun to remake it and make it and add all the new wouding cards.
Plus i edited the Gimli RB deck. check it out! |
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| Captain of Men |
![]() Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:09 pm |
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| instead of lorien swordsmen, elven guardian. that way, u can use rumil and orophins ability more easily |
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![]() Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:16 pm |
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NBarden wrote: Hm...well...if you could do that it would make an infinite archery loop which would be pretty broken.
How so? |
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![]() Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:16 pm |
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lego ability sure to work
elrond, venerable lords ability sure to work
into the west sure to work
not infinitly broken, but nice |
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