Teaching Decks

[Ranofer]

Alright so it's been a while since I played LOTR and while I remember having fun with it, I never got very much into it. (as always I seem to be in a wasteland for local players).  I've been devoting some time to SWCCG and then I thought, "Maybe I should go back and look at LOTR."

So here I am.  I need some general ideas for decks that promote ease of learning.  I'll be building two seperate decks (and logically they could be the same, but they don't have to be), with the sole purpose of learning to play as well as teach some local friends about it.

I'm sure this game isn't terribly hard, but I haven't taken the time to learn every card (like I did for SWCCG).

Help me out if you can!

Thanks.

[ket_the_jet]

Well, I recommend Movie Block (sets 1-10). If you pick up a pair of RotK starter decks, that would be a great start.

Easy decks that aren't rare intensive are Ents, Orcs...
-wtk

[legolas3333]

ents are the ultimate beginner's deck, the only rares that could be needed are Huron and Ent Draught, you could go with the unbound hobbit variety ents for movie block, it can be modified so it's rare-free

Ents

32 Cards

Frodo, Hope Of Free Peoples
The One Ring, Any version

Merry, Rohirrim Squire (Starting)
Pippin, Sworn To Service (Starting)
Quickbeam, Bregalad (Starting)
Ent Avenger x4
Host Of Fangorn x2

Bounder x3

Hobbit Sword x2

Boomed And Trumpeted x4
Roused x4
Long Slow Wrath x4

Ent Moot x4
Brooding On Tomorrow x2

Working from memory, so there could be better cards, but I'm pretty sure they're all Common/Uncommon. It introduces the basics in the game, Events, conditions, possessions, threats, initiative, condition discard, allies... on that same note you could do it for orcs or a rare-free moria swarm,

Orc Wounding

34 cards

Isengard Retainer x4
Isengard Plodder x4
Isengard Tinker x4
Isengard Artisan x4
Isengard Servant x4
Isengard Retainer x4
Isengard Worker x4

The Trees Are Strong x2

Gnawing, Biting, Hacking, Burning x4

this is an ok deck i guess, you get regroup actions and minions stacked on conditions, but my favorite shadow for beginners has been a rare free moria swarm

Swarm

40 Cards

Goblin Runner x4
Goblin Sneak x4
Goblin Backstabber x4
Goblin Scrabbler x4
Goblin Wallcrawler x4
Goblin Warrior x4
Moria Scavengers x4

Goblin Scimitar x4

Host Of Thousands x4

They Are Coming x4

Basic moria swarm, you have the card drawing engine, the minion from discard pile engine and the twilight engine.

[fereveldir]

if you are willing to buy a deck then the hunters aragorn atarter deck is a very easy deck to learn with. you can buy many starter decks at www.wholesalegaming.biz/

[Ranofer]

Thanks for the comments!

BTW, does anyone have the old PDFs that Decipher put out just before the game came out?  I think they were made for people to try out the game.  I think I printed them off a long time ago, but now I can't seem to find the old documents.

Just wondering if anyone has them to aid in teaching