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| LeoKula |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:46 am |
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Hey guys, I’m just getting the cards to build a Sauron corruption deck.
I read a few cards and checked a couple of decklists and they are pretty much the same, you make you opponent discard his cards so he has to add burdens with Desperate Defense of the Ring and Thin and Stretched.
Any of you guys played this deck for some time? Just wanted to hear some insight on how this deck plays, what its ups and downs are.
This is the decklist I’m kind of working around:
4x Wisp of Pale Sheen
4x Enduring Evil
4x Desperate Defense of the Ring
4x Gorgoroth Stormer
3x Thin and Stretched
4x The Ring Is Mine!
2x Ithil Stone
2x Grond, Hammer of the Underworld
4x Orc Inquisitor
4x Tower of Barad-dûr
2x Orc Officer
I’m not planning on decking my opponent. The main goal here is get the cards out of his hand for using gorgoroth stormer on the shadow phase, then DDoR in the assignment. Enduring Evil should get someone overwhelmed so the officer adds 3 burdens or I can make whisp of pale sheen survive to add a burden in the regroup phase. The Ring is Mine just adds to the fun 
Didn’t posted in the Deck Clinics forum because I don’t want opinions just on the decklist, but on the whole Sauron corruption strategy.
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| lem0nhead |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:21 am |
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I dont know if this counts buts its worth splashing in 4 x isengard underling and 4 x bound to its fate. That way you can either discard more cards from their hand or get a burden and u can recycle it 4 times using his text.
What you have above is perfectly fine. Cant think of much else i used when i played my sauron corrupt deck. Except more officers for when you play enduring evil.
You definately need more minions, 14 is way not enough compared to your support cards. |
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| Felipe Musco |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:41 am |
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If I remember correctly, AnxiousChieftain, elf lvr and sickofpalantirs or bobtheorc have played  decks, although I’m not sure ALL of them played discard. YOu could try PM’ing them. |
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| LeoKula |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:56 am |
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Felipe Musco wrote: If I remember correctly, AnxiousChieftain, elf lvr and sickofpalantirs or bobtheorc have played decks, although I’m not sure ALL of them played discard. YOu could try PM’ing them.
Thanks, I will  |
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| hawkeyespf |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:32 am |
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LeoKula wrote: Hey guys, I’m just getting the cards to build a Sauron corruption deck.
I read a few cards and checked a couple of decklists and they are pretty much the same, you make you opponent discard his cards so he has to add burdens with Desperate Defense of the Ring and Thin and Stretched.
Any of you guys played this deck for some time? Just wanted to hear some insight on how this deck plays, what its ups and downs are.
This is the decklist I’m kind of working around:
4x Wisp of Pale Sheen
4x Enduring Evil
4x Desperate Defense of the Ring
4x Gorgoroth Stormer
3x Thin and Stretched
4x The Ring Is Mine!
2x Ithil Stone
2x Grond, Hammer of the Underworld
4x Orc Inquisitor
4x Tower of Barad-dûr
2x Orc Officer
I’m not planning on decking my opponent. The main goal here is get the cards out of his hand for using gorgoroth stormer on the shadow phase, then DDoR in the assignment. Enduring Evil should get someone overwhelmed so the officer adds 3 burdens or I can make whisp of pale sheen survive to add a burden in the regroup phase. The Ring is Mine just adds to the fun
Didn’t posted in the Deck Clinics forum because I don’t want opinions just on the decklist, but on the whole Sauron corruption strategy.
for any help
The biggest part of any strategy is FOCUS. Don’t let your main goal try to do too many things, if you know what I mean. Your key to corruption is definitely DDotR, so you want to focus on making sure it works every time, and making sure it stays in play.
To do that, you want to knock cards out of their hand before they even get to the assignment phase. Tower of Barad Dur and Orc Inquisitor are definitely key cards here, so keep them. That’s 12 cards so far. You’ve got really no way to pitch extra unique conditions, so only use 1 Thin and Stretched. When you add burdens using DDotR and Thin and Stretched, you’ve obviously got minions in play, so The Ring is Mine! is a good add as well, though I wouldn’t use more than 2-3, you’ve got enough non-minions at that point - put is this way, you can add a total of 4 cards between Thin and Stretched, The Ring is Mine! and Enduring Evil.
To fill out the rest of the 30-32 card deck, use only minions that will either help you to keep your DDotR in play, add more burdens, or directly benefit from your opponent having few cards in hand or lots of burdens on the RB. Additional minions I’d use are Gorgoroth Stormer, Morgul Skulker (to combat condition removal), and any combination of the initiative strength bonus orcs from RotK (Stalker, Pursuer, Chaser only). An added bonus of those orcs is that they make it harder for Ranger decks to discard to wound them with their site number -1 text.
Again, I’d stick to 30-32 cards in the deck just so it’s not too difficult to get the cards you need when you need them - besides, the Skulker will be recycling either DDotR’s or minions back into your deck, so it’s not like you’re gonna run out of cards.
Sorry, I know you didn’t ask for opinions on this deck specifically, and I tried to avoid critiquing yours and just to explain how I would build an Expanded Format Corruption deck. Hope I helped! |
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| LeoKula |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:43 am |
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Sure you helped mate Criticism is crutial and this is just a decklist, I haven’t built it and played with it, so nevermind
I really have very few minions... it will be easy for my opponent to not assign anybody to bearers of DDotR, so I’ll work on that.
About morgul skulker, he was one of my first picks but I confirmed he can only grab back nazgul conditions  too bad...
About thin and streched I thought about getting it in play as soon as I could, that’s why three copies, but maybe 2 of them will be more than enough. About the ring is mine and enduring evil, I got your point and it’s definitely too many support cards and events but I just see TRiM as a very easy burden added and enduring evil other 3 easy burdens with Orc Officer... I’ll check those minions you mentioned and work on this list
Thanks everybody, I’m awarding for all of you.
If anybody wants to post a decklist you used, feel free  |
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| Anautikus |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:45 am |
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| I think you have too many different things in the deck. Stick with a simple discard/corruption, or just do one or the other. I have a Sauron initiative deck that somehow became corruption/discard/swarms and either kills at site 5 or 9, but that was luck. With a deck like this, as hawkeyespf said, focus it out. |
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| LeoKula |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:56 am |
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This decklist may be trash, but I don’t think it’s so out of focus
BURDENS! Everything is burden related or discarding related, and discarding is for adding burdens. Period. I’m not saying it’s good, you guys are helping me with it’s many flaws, but at least it has focus, in my opinion. I think the main issue here is adjusting how many of each card should go in.
Maybe take out 1 copy of both Grond and Ithil Stone, I think it’s a good start. Then at least one Thin and Stretched and one Enduring Evil, so I just got myself room for 4 more minions, maybe 2x more officers and two other guys. |
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| hawkeyespf |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:58 am |
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Oops! Completely forgot that the Skulker only brings back  cards. 
Two other really great minions in a DDotR deck are The Mouth of Sauron, Lieutenant of Barad-dur (12R) and Gorgoroth Assassin (8R - though he works only if you’ve got Grond or another engine in play, and that starts to dilute the deck some) |
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| Anautikus |
![]() Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:59 am |
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| Also, Orc Slaughter. Double enduring! w00t |
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