Best Fellowship Sides For Expanded

[Knight-Who-Says-Nee]

Just wondering what your opinion is on the top 10 best fellowship sides for expanded.

[Haszor]

Probably not the best but a nice one is running Madril, DoO with a lot of threats and Ithilien blade.

[Not a Zombie]

Horn rocks regardless of format

[NappyKorn]

I made a pretty nice expanded deck using Bilbo, Aged Ring-bearer and the Pippin, Steadfast Friend. I'll try to go back far enough in the deck clinic part of the site and get the decklist for you. It worked nicely abused the regroup phase and Merry got to like strength 32+ I believe  .

EDIT::

Quick copy and paste job as you will see from the strat I run it with tentacles as my shadow. I have this deck built in real life played it several times against various deck types and it works very well  . I have also run it paired with my Moria swarm deck and it also does very very well.

Bearer and Ring 
*The One Ring, Such a Weight to Carry (7R2) 
*Bilbo, Bearer of Things Burgled (RB)(9R+49) 

Fellowship (35) 
1x *Gandalf, Leader of Men (8R15)  (starting)
1x *Fredegar Bolger, Fatty (18R107) (starting) 
1x *Pippin, Steadfast Friend (19P30)  (starting)
1x *Merry, Loyal Companion (11C168) (pull with Green Dragon Inn)
1x *A Light in his Mind (10U108) 
1x *O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!(2R108) 
1x *There and Back Again (1C317) 
1x *The Tale of the Great Ring (10U116)
4x A Dragon's Tale (18C106) 
4x Consorting With Wizards (2R97) 
4x Everyone Knows (9R50) 
4x Scouring of the Shire (18R112) 
2x Stone Trolls (1R314) 
2x Three Monstrous Trolls (3C114) 
4x Saved From The Fire (8R20) 
1x *Red Book of Westmarch (2R113) 
1x *Sting, Weapon of Heritage (11R173)
1x *Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff Cock-Robin (18U111)

Strategy:

Basically burn Merry to grab Red Book of the Westmarch, A Light in his Mind, and Scouring of the Shire or Everyone Knows. Play enough cards to get only 4 in hand. For regroups add a burden to Bilbo to play a tale from hand to draw a card (losing initiative and regaining it) which will trigger A Light in His Mind. Hopefully you draw into more tales if not chance are they will be Tentacles. The more tales you grab when drawing the better obviously, but when you are done toss all the tentacles into you discard pile (since they can be placed from there later. Scouring protects your possessions and conditions. Pippin becomes huge (can be strength 32 with all tales in play and unwounded). Bilbo strength is a little lower at 8, but you can toss There and Back again in a pinch and if he faces an Uruk-hai or troll he boosts a bit more. Basically the freeps is here to filter out your tales fast and get those tentacles in the discard pile because the quicker they get there the better the chance of a good swarm.

[Shelobplayer]

I play my real life Powerful Guide deck for quiet some time on GCCG, and only lost one game with it so far against Tempest, thanks to my own stupidity (hmmm, you have str 30+ Uruk... Challange accepted man!:D). It's only weakness is direct wounding, but I will more or less address that problem soon with some Intimidate.

http://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/index.php/topic,5881.0.html

[leokula]

I like to stick to Elven Telepathy as much as I can

But leaving personal tastes aside, I'd say tier 1 fellowships would be Dwarves, Hobbits (with or without Gandalf) and Ents.

Dwarves can fight, wipe the table consistently with damage bonuses and Blood Runs Chill and draw cards like crazy. Hobbits can choke, or just be tough, have super vitality and just can't be corrupted plus they have two ring-bearers. Ents just smash everything in their way Even a c/u ent deck can stand a good fight.

[Stormcrow]

Horn rocks regardless of format

I,m not sure what your talking about...

[Ringbearer]

Erkenbrands horn, or the follower filter.

[Stormcrow]

Ah. Thanks. Can someone post a decklist?

[macheteman]

there are a couple decklists in on the boards.

[TheJord]

Ah. Thanks. Can someone post a decklist?

My first recommendation would be to not build one. Most unimaginitive deck ever.

[Doom]

It may be unimaginative.. but if you want to completely destroy and annoy someone...'nuff said

[walyn]

http://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/index.php/topic,7557.0.html

Follow the link... the best fellowship ever