As most the followers of the deck clinic may know I have been looking for a way to abuse
Far-seeing Eyes (even with the errata) and this is my latest idea. Any comments would be nice and as always feel free to bash it. Just remember no deck is perfect and something can always beat it up (in this case maybe many). This deck is just a fun deck not meant to be tournament worthy
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Frodo And Ring
*The One Ring, The Great Ring (
19P1)
*Frodo, Resolute Hobbit (
10P121)
Sites
The Bridge of Khazad-Dum (
12U186)
Abandoned Mine Shaft (
13U185)
(1)
Cavern Entrance (
11S232)
(2)
Moria Stairway (
11S248)
(2)
West Gate of Moria (
11S263)
(2)
Window on the West (
11S265)
(3)
Mount Doom (
15R193)
(3)
Caves of Aglarond (
13S186)
(3)
Dammed Gate-stream (
11U235)
Fellowship (35)
2x
*Calaglin, Elf Of Lorien (
3U10)
3x
*Celeborn, Lord of Lorien (
1R34)
3x
*Dinendal, Silent Scout (
3U12)
3x
*Elrond, Lord of Rivendell (
1R40)
4x
*Galdor, Councilor From the West (
3U18)
3x
*Orophin, Lorien Bowman (
1U56)
3x
*Rumil, Elven Protector (
1U57)
1x
*Saelbeth, Elven Councilor (
3U25)
1x
*Gandalf, Leader of Men (
8R15)
1x
*Legolas, Greenleaf (
1R50)
1x
*Smeagol, Slinker (
5R29)
2x
*Far-seeing Eyes (
1C43)
1x
Follow Smeagol (
5U23)
4x
Taking the High Ground (
12U24)
4x
Saved From The Fire (
8R20)
Shadow (35)
4x
Chasm's Edge (
13R44)
3x
Deceit (
18R29)
3x
Not Easily Avoided (
18R32)
4x
Slippery as Fishes (
9R+29)
4x
A Dark Shape Sprang (
10R19)
4x
Captured by the Ring (
7C53)
4x
*Gollum, Old Villain (
6C40)
1x
Breeding Pit Conscript (
12C137)
4x
Orc Pursuer (
5C108)
4x
Hides (
4R19)
Strategies:
Free Peoples:
Start by playing
Dammed Gate-stream to pull
Follow Smeagol. Next hope to grab a
Saved From the Fire and roast Legolas (poor guy) if you don't pull one I used this version for his ability to exert to wound minions. Him being exhausted shouldn't matter too much since he will eventually get the fire
. After burning Legolas grab a copy of
Far-seeing Eyes,
Taking the High Ground x2. If you happened to draw
Far-seeing Eyes grab three copies of Taking the High Grounds. Next play
Far-seeing Eyes, then any
allies you have in hand to let the discard begin. With
follow smeagol start exerting Smeagol during all your regroup phase to play underground site to make those
Taking the High Ground start working there magic. You play
allies to discard cards from opponents hand move from an underground site causing the allies to hop back into you hand then you can discard them to increase the archery total for any minions that might remain. If you feel some of the allies can stay in play without causing you any problems (especially from those lovely 2 sites, which shouldn't be a problem after site 2) they can actually do some good.
Calaglin, Elf Of Lorien can wound any minions left over in regroup phase and
Dinendal, Silent Scout can remove some left over twilight so you can run a bit.
Elrond, Lord of Rivendell can help you draw more allies if needed and Celeborn can reheal him to get the max of 4 draws. Orophin and Rumil can help kill off some Uruk-hai or Orc you may run into if you don't want to send them to hand. After you burn Legolas Gandalf pretty much just takes hits until he is killed off. If all else fails you can Use
The Great Ring to keep your Ring-bearer alive and Smeagol's text can also help keep him alive (but use those abilities only when truely needed because no room for burden removal with all the allies you will need).
Shadow:
Shadow is basically to help draw and discard to keep your hand full of allies for the fellowship. It can do a little damage though. Gollum can get rather vicious. With his text and you controlling the path with undergrounds
Slippery As Fishes can pump him and at the same time provide some cycling.
Deceit is to protect
Chasm's Edge and
Not Easily Avoided of course. If you get lucky and they decide to drop a possession on the ring-bearer (or any weaker companion for that matter)
A Dark Shape Sprang can be quite nasty. Nothing worse than your Frodo getting a
Sting or
Hobbit Sword played on him just to have a huge Gollum jump on him during the fellowship phase for free
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Hides,
Orc Pursuer and the
Breeding Pit Conscript are just there for drawing extra cards.
Anyway let me hear your ideas and complaints about this deck idea
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