Is there a way to get replay links for games if they are not showing anymore on the game history tab? If not I'm afraid I can't.
Nope. I guess you'll just have to wait until you lose again.
The unfairness of the filter aspect in my case is mitigated by filtering only 10% of my deck with the loop instead of the 50% of an actual horn filter list.
First, the initial starting fellowship and subsequent loop filters 15% of your deck (30% of your FP cards), not 10%. In subsequent turns Gamling can pull 3 more possessions while
Deagol gets your last possession, and your remaining 3x
Something Slimy gets you another 3 conditions. You are running heavy site manipulation, so Prancing Pony will get you Faramir in short order. Then, as you have demonstrated yourself, you can use one of your 4x
Not Easily Avoided from your Shadow side to filter out practically every remaining FP card as fast or as slow as you wish, including the afforementioned 3x
Something Slimy you grab your conditions with.
Not Easily Avoided is itself quickly accessed either by drawing it (4x), or pulling it out using 3x
Sudden Strike. So, yes indeedy, you can filter 50% of your deck in just a few turns, you just do it slightly differently than a pure Horn Filter. The only cards you can't pull out of your draw deck, are the remaining 3x copies of Faramir.
Don't get me wrong I see where you are comming from, I just highly disagree with anyone crying that this or that are broken and unfair in expanded.
I wouldn't call it broken, because as you've pointed out it does have a tendency to lose to various random stuff. But I would call it unfair simply because of its massive filtering properties. I call pure Horn Filter decks unfair as well, even though it's been a long time since I've lost to one.
The only thing that puts this deck in a slightly better position that others in my opinion is that it technically guarantees that you survives to the 3rd region giving the shadow side more time to cripple/kill. That's the same as is the case with any BOGS build, only difference is that mine can actually win the race to 9 in addition of doing that.
And with those additions, I feel like it's crossed the line into the realm of an unfair advantage. Now, maybe this is just because it's new, and we just haven't figured out an effective counter-strategy yet. Time will tell. But for now, I see it as similar to what you said about
GLR: There tends to be just a few shadow strategies that are effective against it, and the ones that are don't tend to be effective against many other top tier strategies.
But I do have a couple of ideas yet to try: The latest is
Desert Warrior. I got to thinking about what you said regarding Faramir getting killed by
Hate. Maybe I can set up a situation where Faramir is exhausted, play 2x
Desert Warrior, and bingo they murder him. Thoughts?
Some people enjoy expanded playing casual games, I enjoy it the more cutthroat it is (which is the reason why I post my list, so others can copy them or take them as starting point).
To a degree, I'm the same way. I'm infamous for playing pretty much just one deck, one that is published here for all to see, and continually trying to improve it. I largely give up the element of surprise, because anyone who plays me will by-and-large know what's in my deck. The challenge for me is to win in spite of them having the advantage of knowing my deck, while their's is mostly an unknown quantity for me.