Race to Fangorn Forest

[Halbarad]

Race to Fangorn Forest (Movie Block)

Deck Total 66

Starting

Frodo, Master of the Precious
The One Ring, Answer to all Riddles

Gimli, Lockbearer
Legolas, Dauntless Hunter

Free People      30

Gimli's Battle Axe
Gimli's Helm
Endurance of Dwarves
Quick As May Be x3
Long-knives of Legolas
Asfaloth
Bow of the Galadhrim
Hosts of the Last Alliance
The Tale of Gil-galad
Double Shot x2
Aragorn, Wingfoot x2
Ranger's Sword, Blade of Aragorn
Aragorn's Bow
Defend It and Hope x2
Hard Choice x2
Merry, Learned Guide x2
Pippin, Hastiest of All x2
Sorry About Everything x2
Knocked on the Head x3

Shadow      33

Mauhur, Patrol Leader x3
Ugluk, Servant of Saruman x3
uruk Chaser x3
Uruk Hunter x2
Uruk Plains Runner x3
Uruk Runner x3
Uruk Scout x3
Saurman, Servant of the Eye x3
Broad-bladed Sword x3
Greed
Many Riddles x2
Saruman's Snows x2
Weary x2
What Did You Discover?

So this is a deck I have been wanting to make for awhile but never had the cards, but now I have deck list and Gccg!

Any feed back would be great.

Free Peps general idea is to kill as many minions during Maneuver and Archery phases, if anyone survives have someone fight Legolas and kill em off with the bow, or Gimli with his axe. If all else fails discard Pippin to kill em off.

Shadow is Trackers with some fun conditions.

[jdizzy001]

I play an unbound hobbit deck.  It works real well to play shadow play x4, unheeded x4, knocked on the head x4 double up on gorn's bow and use ranger's sword from set 1.  drop lego's gear and remove all the dwarf stuff.  use a light in his mind for burden control.  The only thing missing is condition removal.  you could run greyhame with deep in thought or grown suddenly tall

[Cw0rk]

You should have Merry and Pippin in your starting fellowship otherwise Gimli and Legolas are worthless. Then, if you plan to use cards such as Quick As Maybe, use Gimli as your Ring-Bearer.

[jdizzy001]

Answer to all the riddles
Frodo, resolute hobbit
merry, learned guide x2
pippin, woolly-footed rascal x2
legolas, dauntless hunter
aragorn, wingfoot x2
ranger's sword x2
aragorn's bow x2
shadowplay x4
unheeded x4
knocked on the head x4
shire countryside x3
sting bane of the 8 legs
a light in his mind x2
mithril coat

This is what I run, Ket gave me the idea, it works very well.

[Sam, Great Elf Warrior]

Aragorn, Wingfoot x2
Ranger's Sword, Blade of Aragorn
Aragorn's Bow
Defend It and Hope x2
Hard Choice x2

If you have 6 support cards for Aragorn, you might want more than 2 Aragorns.

[Cw0rk]

Aragorn, Wingfoot x2
Ranger's Sword, Blade of Aragorn
Aragorn's Bow
Defend It and Hope x2
Hard Choice x2

If you have 6 support cards for Aragorn, you might want more than 2 Aragorns.

Add one copy of Aragorn and the problem is solved.

[Halbarad]

You should have Merry and Pippin in your starting fellowship otherwise Gimli and Legolas are worthless. Then, if you plan to use cards such as Quick As Maybe, use Gimli as your Ring-Bearer.

I was thinking about using merry and pippin in the starting and pulling Gimli or Legolas using one of the ttt sites, but i was trying to use keep the three hunter character cards in the deck so no Gimli Ring-Bearer.

I play an unbound hobbit deck.  It works real well to play shadow play x4, unheeded x4, knocked on the head x4 double up on gorn's bow and use ranger's sword from set 1.  drop lego's gear and remove all the dwarf stuff.  use a light in his mind for burden control.  The only thing missing is condition removal.  you could run greyhame with deep in thought or grown suddenly tall

Oh yea I forgot about shadow play, thanks. A light in his mind would be great i did have sorry for everything but i took it out to keep deck size down. I think i will drop Gimli's gear and add greyhame in and see how that works.

Thanks everyone for your feed back.

Anyone have something for my shadow side?

[ket_the_jet]

I think people get fooled into using Uruk Hunter because he is strength 12. But he sucks. Four copies of Weary would serve you much better.

I don't know that I would use Saruman's Snows since you are already susceptible to archery fire (I don't think you really have enough vitality for that extra exertion here and there). I would probably rather see some extra cheap minions to absorb archery. Maybe Grima, Wormtongue who can double-dip and help you out with companions bearing conditions in addition to their usual fares.
-wtk

[Cw0rk]

Grima, Wormtongue is a must for your deck. Otherwise, every minion you will play will die to Durin. Vengeance could also be helpful vs him as well. I'm not a big fan of Saruman, I'm pretty sure that 1 copy of him would be enough.

[hrcho]

I run a tracker deck and the most of my kills were with this combo:
Weary or Many Riddles on a comp, Saruman, SotE and Uruk Searcher... very often a Broad-bladed sword is needed and with the help of Vengeance or Kill Them Now, nothing can stop him... Uruk Searcher is my favorite tracker. I can't even count the times I killed Durin... but I think Legolas died most at his hands... so very easy to get to him with Saruman, SotE.

Regarding the Broad-bladed sword... Imagine this: 100 elven archers and 1 Uruk-hai with Broad-bladed sword... they all fire but his sword is so broad, not one arrow gets to him... some sword, eh?

[Cw0rk]

I forgot about Uruk Searcher. He is very good and makes me like Saruman, SotE.

[putridbreath]

Saruman, SOtE has got to be one of my favorite isengard cards--being able to manipulate the Assignment phase I think is one of the strongest tactics a shadow player can employ.

[Jackmaclintock]

No being able to Discard abunch of Companions is annoying to the max what if you have Saruman and he assigns minions to companions and Freeps where ok with all of the choices and wastes all of those minions, Waste of 4 points

[ket_the_jet]

If I am not mistaken, Broad Bladed Sword says, "Bearer cannot take wounds." Or maybe "may not take wounds." Regardless, that is different than a card like High Vantage which "prevents wounds."

Thus, Broad Bladed Sword only protects that one minion from 100 archery.

Like I said, this is only true if the text is "cannot/may not take wounds (except during skirmishes)" which I am 90% sure it is.
-wtk

[hrcho]

If I am not mistaken, Broad Bladed Sword says, "Bearer cannot take wounds." Or maybe "may not take wounds." Regardless, that is different than a card like High Vantage which "prevents wounds."

Thus, Broad Bladed Sword only protects that one minion from 100 archery.

Like I said, this is only true if the text is "cannot/may not take wounds (except during skirmishes)" which I am 90% sure it is.
-wtk

You are correct, the sword protects just that 1 Uruk, but still... it's funny if you imagine the situation... Uruk-hai should teach Men in armory business... What do you need a great shield twice your size if you got a Broad-bladed sword

Not even William Wallace had one that big and he, so they say, had a really big one (I'm still talking about swords).