The Fiend Killer (fingers crossed)

[SomeRandomDude]

Well...obviously, there's one way to ensure that Fiend decks die. And that is to make sure you have infinite strength (or strength reduction).

Cue: Infinite Gandy!

RB:
Gandalf, Bearer of Obligation
The One Ring, The Great Ring

Starting:
Farmer Maggot, Hobbit of the Marish
Merry, Rohirrim Squire
Erland, Dale Counselor

Pippin, Hobbit of Some Intelligence x 3
Rohirrim Guard x 4
The Shire Countryside x 4
A Light In His Mind x 3

Servant of the Secret Fire x 4
Inspiration x 4
Saved from the Fire x 4

Narya

So the point of the deck here is to be able to survive a tun 2 Fiend onslaught. The point is to go for the Saved from the Fire to nab Pippin, The Shire Countryside and A Light In His Mind. Ideally, you'll draw into one of those and can then grab an additional The Shire Countryside. Ideally, you've also got Servant of the Secret Fire in hand, but you can also use Inspiration with one of the 7 extra companions in your deck.

Now you've got the combo. Play the event, use Erland, rinse, lather, repeat. You should be able to ensure that you get initiative right via Gandy manipulation or some other way. Anyways. Rohirrim Guard helps if you draw into him.

So, ideally, turn 2 you've got this configuration.

Gandalf
Erland
Merry
Pippin

Servant of the Secret Fire/Inspiration and a comp in hand (which can also be nabbed if you draw into the right cards).

A Light In His Mind
The Shire Countryside

Wahoo. Infi Gandy turn 2, theoretically. Fiend dead.

I'm working on a shadow that's dedicated to trashing both the Horn and the Fruit Loops deck, as they're the only competitive decks in the format other than Horn/Fiend.

[Gil-Estel]

Therefor pack Great Peril of Fire with Mordor Fiend. Once you get the minions out, those enigines could also come in handy.....

[King89]

sorry for this question, but may anyone give me a link to a "normal" fiend AND fruit loop deck?!

thanks

[Gil-Estel]

Normal as in without the Horns? Well I guess the deck 'taking a wack at Fiend' in the open format is a nice Fiend deck. You need a filtering fellowship, saved from the fire, binding ring and other cards that remove cards from your drawdeck. Drawing cards isn't enough, because with The Dark Lord's Summons you have to discard a card from hand when you hit a fellowship card. Normally you just wait till you have filtered your deck. I have a nice one in the other/casual format, with no rares involved.

[SomeRandomDude]

Fruit Loops and Fiend are completely incompatible. They can't be run in the same deck.

Fiend needs its own Freeps, a filter freeps, which Fruit Loops isn't.

[King89]

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