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Middle-Earth => Lothlórien => Expanded => Topic started by: Knight-Who-Says-Nee on April 26, 2011, 04:27:00 PM

Title: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Knight-Who-Says-Nee on April 26, 2011, 04:27:00 PM
Just wondering what your opinion is on the top 10 best fellowship sides for expanded.
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Haszor on April 26, 2011, 05:08:57 PM
Probably not the best but a nice one is running Madril, DoO with a lot of threats and Ithilien blade.
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Not a Zombie on April 26, 2011, 08:17:40 PM
Horn rocks regardless of format
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: NappyKorn on May 12, 2011, 03:29:34 PM
I made a pretty nice expanded deck using Bilbo, Aged Ring-bearer and the Pippin, Steadfast Friend. I'll try to go back far enough in the deck clinic part of the site and get the decklist for you. It worked nicely abused the regroup phase and Merry got to like strength 32+ I believe  ;D.

EDIT::

Quick copy and paste job as you will see from the strat I run it with tentacles as my shadow. I have this deck built in real life played it several times against various deck types and it works very well  :P. I have also run it paired with my Moria swarm deck and it also does very very well.

Bearer and Ring 
*The One Ring, Such a Weight to Carry (7R2) 
*Bilbo, Bearer of Things Burgled (RB)(9R+49) 

Fellowship (35) 
1x *Gandalf, Leader of Men (8R15)  (starting)
1x *Fredegar Bolger, Fatty (18R107) (starting) 
1x *Pippin, Steadfast Friend (19P30)  (starting)
1x *Merry, Loyal Companion (11C168) (pull with Green Dragon Inn)
1x *A Light in his Mind (10U108) 
1x *O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!(2R108) 
1x *There and Back Again (1C317) 
1x *The Tale of the Great Ring (10U116)
4x A Dragon's Tale (18C106) 
4x Consorting With Wizards (2R97) 
4x Everyone Knows (9R50) 
4x Scouring of the Shire (18R112) 
2x Stone Trolls (1R314) 
2x Three Monstrous Trolls (3C114) 
4x Saved From The Fire (8R20) 
1x *Red Book of Westmarch (2R113) 
1x *Sting, Weapon of Heritage (11R173)
1x *Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff #$&*@!-Robin (18U111)

Strategy:

Basically burn Merry to grab Red Book of the Westmarch, A Light in his Mind, and Scouring of the Shire or Everyone Knows. Play enough cards to get only 4 in hand. For regroups add a burden to Bilbo to play a tale from hand to draw a card (losing initiative and regaining it) which will trigger A Light in His Mind. Hopefully you draw into more tales if not chance are they will be Tentacles. The more tales you grab when drawing the better obviously, but when you are done toss all the tentacles into you discard pile (since they can be placed from there later. Scouring protects your possessions and conditions. Pippin becomes huge (can be strength 32 with all tales in play and unwounded). Bilbo strength is a little lower at 8, but you can toss There and Back again in a pinch and if he faces an Uruk-hai or troll he boosts a bit more. Basically the freeps is here to filter out your tales fast and get those tentacles in the discard pile because the quicker they get there the better the chance of a good swarm.
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Shelobplayer on July 01, 2011, 04:24:08 AM
I play my real life Powerful Guide deck for quiet some time on GCCG, and only lost one game with it so far against Tempest, thanks to my own stupidity (hmmm, you have str 30+ Uruk... Challange accepted man!:D). It's only weakness is direct wounding, but I will more or less address that problem soon with some Intimidate.

http://lotrtcgdb.com/forums/index.php/topic,5881.0.html
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: leokula on July 01, 2011, 06:11:06 AM
I like to stick to Elven Telepathy as much as I can :D

But leaving personal tastes aside, I'd say tier 1 fellowships would be Dwarves, Hobbits (with or without Gandalf) and Ents.

Dwarves can fight, wipe the table consistently with damage bonuses and Blood Runs Chill and draw cards like crazy. Hobbits can choke, or just be tough, have super vitality and just can't be corrupted plus they have two ring-bearers. Ents just smash everything in their way :) Even a c/u ent deck can stand a good fight.
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Stormcrow on July 04, 2011, 08:13:02 PM
Horn rocks regardless of format

I,m not sure what your talking about...
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Ringbearer on July 06, 2011, 12:00:29 PM
Erkenbrands horn, or the follower filter.
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Stormcrow on July 06, 2011, 12:31:20 PM
Ah. Thanks. Can someone post a decklist?
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: macheteman on July 06, 2011, 12:40:44 PM
there are a couple decklists in on the boards.
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: TheJord on July 07, 2011, 08:58:37 AM
Ah. Thanks. Can someone post a decklist?

My first recommendation would be to not build one. Most unimaginitive deck ever.
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: Doom on July 07, 2011, 11:29:11 PM
It may be unimaginative.. but if you want to completely destroy and annoy someone...'nuff said
Title: Re: Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded
Post by: walyn on November 07, 2011, 12:48:34 PM
http://lotrtcgdb.com/forums/index.php/topic,7557.0.html

Follow the link... the best fellowship ever