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Title: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on August 19, 2015, 01:54:20 PM
Nothing too exciting, but its been fun to play.

Ring-bearer: Bilbo, Bearer of Things Burgled
Ring: The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles

Adventure deck:
Sleeping Quarters
West Road
Hall of the Kings
Pelennor Plain
City Gates
Minas Tirith Third Circle
Osgiliath Crossing
Cross Roads
Dagorlad

Free Peoples Draw Deck:
2x Birchseed, Tall Statesman
1x Forest Guardian
1x Lindenroot, Elder Shepherd
1x Quickbeam, Bregalad
1x Treebeard, Guardian of the Forest
1x Merry, Rohirrim Squire
1x Pippin, Friend to Frodo
3x Sam, Great Elf Warrior
4x Hobbit Sword
4x Red Book of Westmarch
4x Nine-fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom
3x Ent Draught
2x A Light in His Mind
3x Birthday Present
4x Consorting With Wizards
2x Escape
4x Everyone Knows
1x O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
2x Stone Trolls
4x The Shire Countryside
1x The Tale of the Great Ring
2x There and Back Again

Shadow Draw Deck:
4x Goblin Runner
4x Goblin Scavengers
4x Goblin Sneak
2x Castamir of Umbar
3x Corsair Boatswain
4x Corsair Marauder
4x Corsair Plunderer
4x Goblin Scimitar
4x Black Sails of Umbar
3x Corsair War Galley
2x Ships of Great Draught
4x Goblin Armory
2x Goblin Swarms
2x Plundered Armories
1x They Are Coming
4x Under Foot

Replays:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$u19x3lrkz1zzl77c

Fun one, site 9 shows off the shadow

http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$dnkzo91jx56ixb1p
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$13jat6jwpkgoyqvh
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$1tkxe7xjjrqzmbve

Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Dictionary on August 20, 2015, 07:31:33 AM
Cool deck! I particularly like the Corsair Marauders discarding Goblin Scimitars for more twilight/cards, which is not something I've seen before. Really nice card cycling as well :)
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Eukalyptus on August 20, 2015, 08:08:56 AM
Especially in synergy with Plundered Armories. But do you really need Ships and Castamir? Surely Enquea and guys like Guard Commander (benefits from the tons of twilight you're getting) as well as maybe Ancient Chieftain will be better choices.

Anyway, you can use this deck in the next Movie league, series 2 preferably ;)
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on August 21, 2015, 09:12:22 AM
Thanks guys! I'm pretty sure the Marauder/Scimitar is not original to me, but I don't recall who thought of it first.

Eukalyptus: You are probably right on the Castamir, but the ships are all pretty crucial to the function of this deck IMHO.
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Eukalyptus on August 21, 2015, 09:59:02 AM
The Plunderer and Marauder give you more than enough tokens. Castamir is just a waste of twilight in this deck. If you're set on using Boatswain, you might as well pack one War Galley and Gollum, Plotting Deceiver.
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: ramolnar on August 21, 2015, 10:21:28 PM
This deck is cute. Way too cute.

Your FP is of the survival variety, which is fine enough, but you need to have a completely stable Shadow combo. You don't. You cannot win against The Tale of the Great Ring - Discovered wouldn't hurt, or you could run one Drums in the Deep and mess with people's heads. You can't restart the combo if you lose Moria conditions to removal or Greatest Kingdom of My People (which people play in Movie) or Dwarven Axe. You've got one way to retrieve Goblin Scavengers. Goblin Sneaks only help if you can deck yourself - and you've got 102 cards. Even in your game against Dauntless / Easterlings, a great matchup for you on both sides with no disruption from your opponent, you still had 14 cards left. There's no reason to be playing Sneaks when you could be playing better goblins: Host of Moria, Goblin Warrior, Moria Scout. Or you could run Host of Thousands to retrieve Goblin Scavengers.

Plundered Armories is a "win more" card - I would much rather use my Marauders to take out opponent bows and swords - but it is fun. In this deck, so is Goblin Swarms - you should be taking out the opponent fast. If you're going for a late combo, because you need time to set up, you don't need to search with Boatswain; you can thin the deck and just pick up boats as they come. This deck will win sometimes, when it works. A more focused deck could win in more contested circumstances.
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on August 24, 2015, 08:46:59 AM
Not really any arguments here, the deck was really made just for fun. I just get bored of the same old all the time, so I try and get something slightly new. I agree on the castamir, I'll switch him for host of moria. Host of thousands and warrior seem good too. I disagree with your assessment of plundered armories though, sometimes an extra card in hand and a few extra twilight is more important than taking out a gondorian sword or similar. In a couple of games I would not have pulled out a win without it.
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on August 24, 2015, 03:28:38 PM
Updated deck
Ring-bearer: Bilbo, Bearer of Things Burgled
Ring: The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles

Adventure deck:
Sleeping Quarters
West Road
Hall of the Kings
Pelennor Plain
City Gates
Minas Tirith Third Circle
Osgiliath Crossing
Cross Roads
Dagorlad

Free Peoples Draw Deck:
2x Birchseed, Tall Statesman
1x Forest Guardian
1x Lindenroot, Elder Shepherd
1x Quickbeam, Bregalad
1x Treebeard, Guardian of the Forest
1x Merry, Rohirrim Squire
1x Pippin, Friend to Frodo
3x Sam, Great Elf Warrior
4x Hobbit Sword
4x Red Book of Westmarch
4x Nine-fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom
3x Ent Draught
2x A Light in His Mind
3x Birthday Present
4x Consorting With Wizards
2x Escape
4x Everyone Knows
1x O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
2x Stone Trolls
4x The Shire Countryside
1x The Tale of the Great Ring
2x There and Back Again

Shadow Draw Deck:
1x Gollum, Plotting Deceiver
4x Goblin Runner
4x Goblin Scavengers
2x Host of Moria, Legion of the Underdeeps
2x Corsair Boatswain
4x Corsair Marauder
4x Corsair Plunderer
4x Goblin Scimitar
4x Black Sails of Umbar
3x Corsair War Galley
2x Ships of Great Draught
1x Hobbitses Are Dead
4x Host of Thousands
2x Discovered
4x Goblin Armory
2x Plundered Armories
1x They Are Coming
3x Under Foot

Notice the addition of plotting deceiver and hobbitses are dead, prevents TotGR. Discovered to take out a couple conditions, swapped Castimir for Host of Moria. No changes to the freeps right now
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Durin's Heir on August 24, 2015, 05:53:24 PM
If you want to max out the cycling, might be a good idea to add more copies of TAC. It should get a lot of benefits with Under Foot and Goblin Scimitar getting you more cards, while Goblin Armory and Goblin Runner add a lot of twilight.
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Legion on October 30, 2015, 01:24:30 AM
Thanks guys! I'm pretty sure the Marauder/Scimitar is not original to me, but I don't recall who thought of it first.

http://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/index.php/topic,8861.0.html

"Cough" "cough"!  But I do like the addition of Gollum and Hobbitses are Dead.  Nice idea!
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on October 30, 2015, 08:29:18 AM
All credit to Legion! I'd like to see some recent replays of your deck :)
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on July 29, 2016, 02:08:48 PM
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$mk45s7o2enql7vns

Start of shadow phase at site 7, I had 33 cards in my deck and 8 in hand. End of shadow phase, 9 in deck 1 in hand. Went through 31 cards in one site!
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on August 11, 2016, 05:23:06 PM
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$3zq7lo626rpv1cyq

Even better: started site 7 with 34 cards in deck and 22 twilight, end of shadow phase there was 5 twilight, 0 cards in deck, 19 minions. Only 1 other minion I could have played, but didn't have the twilight :(
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Not a Zombie on November 02, 2022, 04:03:40 PM
https://play.lotrtcgpc.net/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=veggicide$xt1l4mrg3gdoooz6

Gosh I love this deck. Got the swarm off at site 6 and 7. A bit of luck that my opponent didn't have roll of thunder sooner. Site 7 I could have gone through my whole deck if my opponent hadn't conceded. Good times.

Edit: If I had played out the rest of my shadow phase, I would have gotten the rest of my moria minions out, for a total of 17 minions.
Title: Re: Hobbit/ent and Moria's Navy
Post by: Tunadan on November 03, 2022, 09:26:26 AM
Shame your opponent conceded before the swarm was finished. It's a little disappointing when your opponent doesn't let you finish the shadow phase, especially when the swarm is good.