Wizards

[Cw0rk]

Frodo And Ring  
*The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles (4R1)  
*Frodo, Old Bilbo's Heir (1R289)  

 
Sites  
(1R)Isengard Ruined (7U331)  
(2R)West Road (7U337)  
(3R)Hall of the Kings (7U339)  
(4R)Anduin Banks (7U341)  
(5R)City Gates (7U344)  
(6R)Minas Tirith Fifth Circle (7U346)  
(7R)Osgiliath Channel (8U120)  
(8R)Watchers of Cirith Ungol (10U120)  
(9R)Dagorlad (7U360)  

 
Fellowship (33)  
1x *Melilot Brandybuck, Merry Dancer (3R110)  
1x *The Gaffer, Sam's Father (1R291)  
1x Bounder (1C286)  
2x *Gandalf's Staff (2R22)  
1x *Narya (3R34)  
1x *Radagast's Staff (0P57)  
1x *Gandalf, The White Wizard (4C90)  (start)
4x *Radagast, The Brown (9R+26)  
2x *Brooding On Tomorrow (10U15)  
2x *Moment of Respite (7R44)  
1x *The Tale of the Great Ring (10U116)  
2x Trust Me As You Once Did (3U35)  
2x Gathering Wind (10U16)  
2x Roll of Thunder (4U99)  
2x Servant of the Secret Fire (1R83)  
2x Strength of Spirit (1C85)  
2x Wizardry Indeed (4U108)  
2x *Glamdring, Elven Blade (7R39)  
2x *Sting, Baggins Heirloom (5R116)  

 
Shadow (33)  
3x *Saruman's Staff, Wizard's Device (4R174)  
2x A Fell Voice On The Air (3R52)  
2x Greed (1R125)  
2x Saruman's Snows (1C138)  
2x What Did You Discover?(4R213)  
2x Wizard Storm (2U48)  
2x *Grima, Wormtongue (4R154)  
2x *Lurtz, Servant of Isengard (1R127)  
2x *Mauhur, Patrol Leader (4R160)  
4x *Saruman, Black Traitor (4R173)  
2x *Uruk Captain (2R46)  
2x Troop of Uruk-hai (1R143)  
4x Uruk Hunter (4U188)  
2x Uruk Ravager (3U75)  


Here is a fun deck to play using Wizards (Gandalf, Radagast and Saruman).

The fellowship is kinda well balanced for a 3 companions deck (I just want to have Frodo and Wizards so I won't add more). Melilot Brandybuck and Narya provides the burden protection. It can discard possessions and conditions, survive vs big minions and could (in theory) survive vs swarm (Tale of the Great Ring, Bounder, Gathering Wind with twilight cost 1 minions, many ways to pump Frodo). It also has some OK healing with The Gaffer, Moment of Respite and Radagast can heal himself with 4 copies.

The shadow is mainly built to slow your opponent down and punish him if he moves twice with cards like Wizard Storm and What did you discover?. This should allow you to be able to move faster than him and go for a fellowship win. Grima is especially there vs Dwarves and Saruman's Snows can be a very helpful card (nice vs Cirdan, Eowyn, LoI). The only problem I would have is vs pre-skirmish wounding fellowship... but there isn't much I can do except wait for them to double-move and play a lot of high vitality minions.

[ket_the_jet]

Mithrandir! Mithrandir! can help against swarm...

I think you need more healing. With just three companions, it is inevitable that they are going to get their #$&*@! kicked in a little. Have Patience for the Wizards (at a high cost, of course) may be a little too risky...

I like the idea of the two Wizards and Saruman on your Shadow side. I'd probably use a different Saruman (Servant of the Eye, perhaps?) and run some Saruman's Power to take care of freeps conditions.
-wtk

[Cw0rk]

Thanks ket, I almost forgot about MithrandirMithrandir! but I don't know what I could remove for it as I consider the other cards I have now to be more helpful. I agree that more healing would be good, but Have Patience may be a little to risky for this deck.

I think Saruman's Power is a great card but the reason why I don't use it here is because I don't want my conditions to be discarded and also because I already have 4 Black Traitor which all can discard a condition which should be enough vs 95% of the decks.

I do like the idea of using Saruman, Servant of the Eye but I need to keep some Black Traitors as I want him to fight. Also, Servant of the Eye won't have much vitality after I played my weather cards so his gametext will be less effective. Nevertheless, I have to admit that Servant of the Eye can be excellent in some situations so I may consider swapping 1 Black Traitor after some playtesting.

[ket_the_jet]

I think you should use Gandalf's Staff, Focus of Power and four copies of Servant of the Secret Power.

Why would you want the cost of your spells to go down when your Gandalf gets stronger with more pool?

I don't think Frodo will be tough enough to survive, personally, but Barliman Butterbur could help.
-wtk

[Cw0rk]

I think you should use Gandalf's Staff, Focus of Power and four copies of Servant of the Secret Power.

Why would you want the cost of your spells to go down when your Gandalf gets stronger with more pool?

I don't think Frodo will be tough enough to survive, personally, but Barliman Butterbur could help.
-wtk

Gandalf's Staff, Focus of Power seems to be a good idea. I use Gandalf's Staff because of the skirmish canceling ability but I have to admit that I haven't used it much in the games I played with this deck so far.
I love Servant of the Secret Fire but it's a bit like Mitdrandir! Mitdrandir!... I think the other cards are more helpful, unless you suggest me to remove 1.
I wanted to find a spot for Barliman Butterbur. What shall I remove? I think it's such a good card that I wouldn't mind adding him to play a 34/34 deck.