Rohan wounding/Morc first attempt

[gashad]

The deck:
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1 Eowyn LoI
1 Merry Swordthain
1 Pippin WoBaS
2 Eomer, TMoR
3 Rohirrim guard

3 Rohirrim bow
2 Rohirrim shield
2 Dernhelms blade
1 brego
2 riders mount

2 Fortress never fallen
2 A light in his mind
4 Shadowplay
2 arrowslits
1 Doom drove them
2 Birthday present

4 Unheeded

1 Leowyn


Shadow
4 Cantea faster than winds
3 Toldea, wraith on wings
2 The Witch-king, Morgul King
2 black marshal
2 flung into the fray
3 Streaming to the field
2 Stooping to the kill
4 Morgul ambusher
4 Morgul creeper
2 There came a cry
4 morgul spearman
4 morgul whelp

This deck is so far entirely experimental, i have little experience of either combinations and have no idea how they are normally played so any suggestions are appreciated.

Free people strategy is simple, exert then wound to hopefully kill everything(as no companion can really fight. Using merry to recycle shields and bows.

Shadow strategy is if anything even simpler-add threats and take initiative, then crush your opponent in a swarm of archery fire and minions.

However both sides are a bit fat at 36 so probably need to be slimmed down, however as i am experienced in neither side I don't know how to best do this.

Thanks

[Ringbearer]

Forst of all: your companion base is awkward. You miss some of the best characters: Eomer TMOTR, Gamling, Hrethel. You use A Light in his Mind but no Shire Countrysides. I just find the deck a bit of 2 things: rohan wounding (tho you should play Merry's Sword) and a shire countryside healing. Yous hould definitely make a choice there.

The shadow side should also focus more. Do you want to swarm, do you want archery wounds, do you want to win/stop trough attrition.

[gashad]

Thansk for the input

The reason I don't use those companions is that the deck is focused on wounding to deal with minions-not winning skirmishes as those companions are good at.

The deck is pretty much solely rohan wounding-the a light in his mind are just in because I feel that all decks should have some burden removal and they work will with Rohirrim guard and swordthain-and I can always use them to remove burdens added from birthday present.

basically the thought of the shadow side is to simply stack wounds on the freeps-first from archery-then from damage +1 on minions and then see them explode from threats.  I am however getting a bit doubtful over how easy it is to put together- as to get streaming to the field to really work enougth morcs have to be able to surive there skirmishes to maintain my initiative-while I have no real pumps to ensure that they do so and the orcs are all quite weak. Does anyone have experience with a similar deck?

[bibfortuna25]

Well, any sort of wounding deck still needs to have some fighters, in case some minions make it through to the assignment phase intact. So there's really no reason not to have Eomer in this deck.

[gashad]

ok, thats a fair point-Will probably replace greenleaf with 2 tmotr, as I didn't really like splashing him before(I prefer an homogenous deck as far as possible) and see if i can possibly squeze in a weapon for him.

Any comments on the shadowside? really have only a limited grasp on how morcs usually work or if my idea can function.