Almost flawless LttG

[putridbreath]

Sorry but I had a question regarding the use of Into The West in this deck. Does it place every card revealed by its game text under the deck or just the elven ones? To me, the text seems to imply all cards revealed by it go under the drawdeck. I'm just wondering how this can be useful to the shadow side of your deck when you reveal a key shadow card like Lttg and have to cringe as it's tossed under the entire deck.

[TelTura]

It does...the instructions come in three parts, like so:

1)Exert an elf->Reveal the top card
2)IF it is an elf card, remove three threats.
3)Place that card beneath your draw deck (note the lack of an "if" statement)

and I'm no shining tactician, but it seems to me that drawing Lttg late-game seems to be a part of the strategy...although others may prove me wrong.

[Sam, Great Elf Warrior]

I think the idea is to use MoW to put cards on top of your draw deck that you want to go to the bottom. Thus Shadow cards get sent to the bottom while Free Peoples cards stay in your hand, until the bottom dozen or so cards are all shadow. When you get down to the point where only Shadow cards are left, you exert/wound the Ring-bearer and throw down your LttG x4.

[Kralik]

Sam has it exactly right -- you choose with Gandy MoW.

[Witchkingx5]

Sam has it exactly right -- you choose with Gandy MoW.

And keep the LttGs in hand (stupid hand clog, btw!)

[Kralik]

(stupid hand clog, btw!)

Which is exactly why you need a deck that can deal with it.

[Gil-Estel]

and this is such a deck...allthough I have improved it a bit more.....will share with you later, when I am writing my report on how I won the tournament with it, hahaha

[Smeagollum]

and this is such a deck...allthough I have improved it a bit more.....will share with you later, when I am writing my report on how I won the tournament with it, hahaha

Not any chance Heije hahaha You won't have a card left at site 5;)

[Gil-Estel]

If you play discard vs me, I will leave the tournament with sudden headache, hahaha.

[Smeagollum]

If you play discard vs me, I will leave the tournament with sudden headache, hahaha.

Well... at least one of the apg will play discard

oh.. and as it seems now it might be that we come with 6 or 7 people:)

[Mythdracon]

Is there anything in the movie block that could stop events from taking effect (i.e. preventing the event from discarding)? Or is the only way to counter it to run a choke deck and/or have multiple copies of companions in the deck?

[Abbott465]

There is The Board Is Set (7R32) but outside of that I really cant think of any other cards since im pretty sure you were talking about freeps...

[Witchkingx5]

Well, against LttG, you can just keep your Ring-Bearer exhausted and run like crazy, but against others... you  can use wounding to prevent most events being played at all, but this is another story. But if you wanna counter any event, Abbott465 was right, the board s set is the only one that can cancel any Shadow event in Movie.

[Imrahil]

well I don't know how it works online, but I understand that Into the West requires you to "reveal" the top card of your draw deck.  You said that one of the flaws of the deck was prior knowledge by the opponent, but I don't see how anybody's going to remain clueless once you start revealing LttG.

[hrcho]

Why would he reveal LttG? He chooses which cards get revealed and sent under the deck with Gandalf, MoW during the skirmish phases.