Here is my first attempt at an Open Format deck that I haven't seen posted about yet. Granted it isn't nearly as effective as the Original Fruit Loops deck but it seems to setup faster and with another skirmish based loop you can deck yourself out in the skirmish phase to abuse the regroup phase
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Bearer and Ring *The One Ring, The Ring of Rings (
11R1)
*Gimli, Bearer of Grudges (RB)(
9R+4)
Fellowship (33) 1x
*Bilbo, Melancholy Hobbit (
12R119)
1x
*Gandalf, Leader of Men (
8R15)
1x
*Merry, Swordthain (
7R321)
1x
*Pippin, Hobbit of Some Intelligence (
12R127)
1x
*Smeagol, Poor Creature (
6C45)
2x
Ranger of Osgiliath (
7C116)
1x
*A Light in his Mind (
10U108)
1x
*Brooding On Tomorrow (
10U15)
4x
*Ever My Heart Rises (
4R46)
4x
*Memories of Darkness (
10U2)
1x
*Reckless Pride (
7U13)
2x
Mines Of Khazad-Dum (
3R3)
1x
Preparations (
7R12)
1x
Battle in Earnest (
8R2)
1x
Last Throw (
10c34)
1x
No Worse for Wear (
12S126)
1x
One Good Turn Deserves Another (
11U49)
2x
Rest by Blind Night (
4R54)
4x
Saved From The Fire (
8R20)
1x
*Axe of Erebor (
4R41)
1x
*Red Book of Westmarch (
2R113)
Strategy:Bid 1 hope to go first and play
Dammed Gate-Stream. Use the text to grab
One Good Turn Deserves Another and play the next site adding a burden to send it back to hand. Burn Pippin with
Saved From the Fire to grab
Red Book of Westmarch,
Bilbo, Melancholy Hobbit, and
A Light in His Mind. When you come across one of the four
Memories of Darkness and one of the four
Ever My Heart Rises you are set to go. Bazarinbar grabs your
Axe of Erebor as well so play that as your site 2
. For skirmish phase discard cards from hand with with
Smeagol, Poor Creature to lose initiative which will trigger
A Light in His Mind (peeling a burden) and
Memories of Darkness (which will play
Ever My Heart Rises). When you play
Ever My Heart Rises you stack the top 6 cards of your draw deck on that condition (which happens to be a tale so you will draw a card with
Red Book of Westmarch). Discard each card on the tale to pump Gimli +6 then toss the condition to pump him +1 more (thanks to the
Axe of Erebor). Discard another card from hand with Smeagol again to repeat until Gimli wins or at least can survive
. Next skirmish with Smeagol discarding cards from hand to pump him playing
Ever My Heart Rises (stacking the cards and peeling burdens) until Smeagol can win or just survive and you are complete decked out.
Bilbo, Melancholy Hobbit can fetch
No Worse For Wear (and if at a Dwelling site can discard 2 more cards from hand in case your other hobbit is skirmishing too. Hopefully the monster minions are on Gandalf (which is basically fodder now), Gimli which can tank out, and smeagol which should be able to pump enough to at least not be overwhelmed
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Now on for regroups, I tried this deck out and found that it can give you the option to go for a shadow kill (via Fiend) or can boost the move limit through the ceiling, kill all the remaining minions and trash the condition based support area of the Opponent
Basically just like your Fruit Loops, but with different cards playing the roll.
Ranger of Osgiliath still discards to exhaust and
Battle in Earnest kills them off. Losing initiative during the regroup phase by replaying
One Good Turn Deserves Another over and over again. Adding the burden to take it back into hand is nullified by
A Light in His Mind so go wild
. Losing initiative also triggers
Memories of Darkness which can play
Ever My Heart Rises (paired with
Mines of Khazad-dum means healing Gimli so he can exert to stack cards on
Preparations) and
Reckless Pride (which acts like the Seeing-stone of the Original Fruit Loops to keep drawing your cards).
If you are feeling like you have a shot at a shadow kill simply stack all your Fiend Cards on
Preparations (shuffling them in as needed and replaying
Ever My Heart Rises as Needed to heal. But If you want to just
make a run for it stack your entire discard Pile back on to
Preparations and shuffle it back into your deck, bump the move limit by constantly playing
Last Throw (playing it, restacking it on
Preparations and shuffling it into your draw deck and redrawing it with
Reckless Pride).
Shadow (33) 1x
*Tower Walkway (
7C315)
1x
*Troop Tower (
7R316)
4x
Great Siege-towers (
7U281)
4x
The Dark Lord's Summons (
1U242)
4x
Their Marching Companies (
8U107)
1x
Forces of Mordor (
1C248)
1x
*Troll of Gorgoroth, Abomination of Sauron (
8R108)
4x
Great Hill Troll (
8C102)
1x
Mordor Fiend (
10C91)
4x
Orc Ambusher (
1C261)
4x
Orc Butcher (
7C297)
4x
Orc Guard (
3C95)
Strategy:Basic Fiend Deck, play Fiend (cycling him into hand with the freeps), play
The Dark Lord's Summons, and we all know the rest. With all your trolls out for free you can start using the Orc Guards to eliminate some pesky Free People Conditions. Swarm like a mad man/woman and hope for the kill if it fails you have the option again and cycling them all right back into your deck with your Free Peoples and trying again or just run like crazy with them next turn
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Sites
Streets of Bree (
18U140)
Courtyard Parapet (
13U188)
(1)
Cavern Entrance (
11S232)
(2)
Hobbiton Market (
12S189)
(2)
Barazinbar (
11S229)
(2)
Westemnet Village (
11S264)
(3)
Dammed Gate-stream (
11U235)
(3)
The Prancing Pony (
11S256)
(3)
Valley of the Silverlode (
11S261)
Basically wanted dwelling sites to help aid the hobbits in regrabbing
No Worse For Wear to help keep tham alive best I could. Prancing Pony can be used to grab a
Ranger of Osgiliath,
Valley of the Silverlode and Heal the Hobbits who will be taking wounds as the fight,
Barazinbar to grab your axe. Running Caver Entrance to put a damper on the nasty {rohan] horn if it comes into play (which could cause problems for you as well so best to not play it unless they run ahead on you and you can replace it with
One Good Turn Deserves Another.
Dammed Gate-Stream is here to grab your
One Good Turn Deserves ANother from the get go
. The Resy are just dwelling sites to work with Bilbo and the solo
skirmish event.
As always would like to hear your input (whether good or bad) but remember this is my first attempt at my own Open Format build.
Thanks.