The Aragorn/elves free peoples deck I found on the wiki works with the Uruk shadow deck Ket the Jet helped with. However I would like to know the strategies I could do that do not require winning the bid to go first to use a location (like the Prancing Pony) to find a character. I would like to be unpredictable.
Every deck should have a contingency if they have to go second
Though looking at these decklists, you already have 3-4 copies of Aragorn. Prancing Pony is just a convenience at that point. With the card drawing in each of the decks, you're going to be able to play Aragorn before site 5 almost all the time. It's still good to try for first though, since not only will that put pressure on your opponent to make riskier moves but you also can drop 4 twilight at a way safer point in the game.
Grey Pilgrim Gondor Uruks Fellowship
Use Aragorn to heal Gandalf, Boromir and Frodo
Try to win with either Free Peoples or Shadow.
Can draw and cycle a lot with Elrond and Ottar. Build a strong Aragorn and a Strong Gandalf. Has Aragorn's Bow and Legolas Greenleaf to clear out minions.
Perhaps Aragorn, Heir top the White City + No Stranger to the shadows would work better? I wanted to try the Healing Aragorn.
Solid deck, by the looks of it. Because of the card drawing I think the deck size is alright, but there are some changes I would make. I don't play a ton of Fellowship Block, so if anyone else has any ideas I'd want to hear them myself! I think there is currently plenty of protection from Swarm with the archery and
Servant of the Secret Fire, but fierce minions (Nazgul and especially Uruks) might give you some trouble. You can draw up to 5 cards each turn with your Free Peoples, so you can drop some of the less important duplicates in favor of stuff to beef up a bit more. Nazgul and Uruks are both expensive, so No Stranger to Shadows will go a long way and you'll be safe if only one or two companions can handle them.
-1x
Horn of Boromir (you have few allies and they are important -- they'd die to a strong minion and I don't think you need the extra swarm protection)
-1x
Wizard Staff-1x
Legolas, Greenleaf-1x
Narya +1x
No Stranger to the Shadows+1x
Elrond, Lord of Rivendell (Better to draw and play him as soon as possible, plus extra copies cost no deck space since they'll be instantly replaced with another card)
+1x
The Last Alliance of Elves and Men (a bit of permanent strength for your main fighter -- you should still let Legolas die when he's no longer useful)
+1x
Armor (your opponent will use
Beyond the Height of Men too)
I would consider
Wizard Staff a situational card. 1 strength is always good, but sometimes 2 twilight for your opponent outweighs the benefit.
Sting will be able to see if there's any harm in playing it, and if there is don't hesitate to discard it with
Ottar! If you find yourself decking out often, here are some suggestions for extra FP cards: Barliman Butterbar,
Prancing Pony Proprietor;
Hobbit Stealth;
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!; a second copy of No Stranger to Shadows; extra
Flaming Brand for
Ulaire Cantea, Lieutenant of Dol Guldur; and Orophin or Rumil. Depends on what you find gives the deck the most trouble, which will shift from time to time with the meta.
For the Shadow side, the only thing I'd look at is how often
No Business of Ours does you any good. I have definitely seen
Sting win games against Uruk-hai by revealing a bad hand, and this would probably save you from that sometimes. But other than that, how much does it matter when your opponent knows what's coming? If you remove it, I'd replace it with either another minion or
Abandoning Reason for Madness. I'm partial to
Uruk Guard myself, but there are several good options still available to you:
Orthanc Berserker is a good fighter even if you never use his text (most people don't),
Orthanc Assassin does well even if his archery doesn't usually make a difference,
Uruk-hai Raiding Party looks boring but the extra vitality matters a surprising amount of the time,
Uruk Slayer does a great job making your opponent think twice before using
Secret Sentinels. If you need to add more cards, minions and
Abandoning Reason for Madness are where I'd go, too.
Your site path is fine, but see what you think about this:
7)
The Great River -- Doesn't really help you except against Moria, and again I think you've got plenty help there. Plus you're behind at this point and I don't know that this would help you double.
Silverlode Banks can destroy a Fellowship, but almost everyone plays at least one Ranger to avoid it. I think it would be a better choice. My choice would be
Anduin Confluence -- riskier because it does harm you, but if you're running behind it might be more important to harm your opponent's Free Peoples than to help your own.
9)
Summit of Amon Hen -- Your opponent will probably have a few burdens, so the card drawing works in your favor. However, in most cases you can plan for whether you're going to be at site 9 or your opponent is. If you know you won't make it, you already have Elrond and
Ottar to build the perfect hand, a few more cards won't likely make a difference. Doubly so when you can't afford them.
Slopes of Amon Hen, on the other hand, will let you play an extra Uruk-hai or Saruman for free. If you find yourself not having Saruman at the end when you need him, or if you decide to go with
The Great River and lose your allies,
Emyn Muil* is a decent substitute. I would try to make
Slopes of Amon Hen work first.
Both of these site substitutions benefit from a copy or two of
Abandoning Reason for Madness. After
No Business of Ours, the extra copy of
Saruman's Snows and
Lurtz's Battle Cry are what I'd trade.
Here is the Gandalf FotS version
Draw Gandalf with Elrond or find Gandalf with A Wizard is Never Late, which can also find Ottar, Man of laketown
Fight with Aragorn and Gandalf, Try to win with both Free Peoples and Shadow
Here's what I'd do:
-3x
A Wizard is Never Late (I think 4 copies of Gandalf is enough for this deck)
-1x
Gimli's Battle Axe (You need someone to throw in front of Cantea anyways
-1x
Narya+1x
Hobbit Stealth (Mostly for The Balrog, but this is such a great card overall for Fellowship block)
+1x
No Stranger to the Shadows+1x
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! (swarm and anti-Nazgul)
+1x
Gimli's Helm (Better than a second copy of
Armor)
+1x
Elrond, Lord of RivendellThe site and shadow suggestions from above apply here too, and if you find
Council Courtyard helps your opponent more than you I'd switch back to
Rivendell Terrace.
The Aragorn deck using the Free Peoples Aragorn/Elves deck I dound on the wiki, it works, but only played it twice so far, have not tried the Gandalf Decks
The big thing I'd consider is protection for Boromir from
Such a Little Thing, since that's going to be your biggest asset against swarm.
The Saga of Elendil is a good option. For some extra possessions,
Flaming Brand is easy and effective,
Asfaloth can be nice, and you can also think about
Elven Bow to put on Arwen (or Celeborn and Elrond for when they're called to battle). Harder to say what to cut though. My first thought is to lose some duplicates:
-1x
Aragorn's Bow-1x
Ranger's Sword+2x other possessions (I would go 1x
Flaming Brand and 1x
Elven Bow)
Optional: -1x
The Last Alliance of Elves and Men, +1x
The Saga of Elendil (Boromir won't be fighting, but sending others to fight for him in this case)
I didn't cut
Gwemegil because I think it's the best weapon in the block. If you did, though, another
Elven Bow or adding
The Saga of Elendil without losing The Last Alliance would be nice.
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