I was going through some of my old sDa Decks that I haven't bothered to play yet since coming over to GccG. I came across this one and decide to spend a little more time on it and make some adjustments. Not sure if I posted it before, but even if I did I made same great changes. Here is the deck.....
Shadow (34):
4x
*Gothmog, Lieutenant of Morgul (
10R88)
2x
*Mumak Commander, Giant Among the Swertings (
15R86)
3x
*The Mouth of Sauron, Messenger of Mordor (
12S73)
1x
Bold Easterling (
15C73)
4x
Courageous Easterling (
15C75)
2x
Engrossed Hillman (
15U78)
4x
Mumak Rider (
12R74)
4x
Rapt Hillman (
15U90)
4x
White Hand Invader (
17C128)
2x
Countless Companies (
12U58)
1x
Rapid Reload (
15U89)
3x
Pavise (
11C94)
Idea is pretty straight forward... Control sites with
Rapt Hillman and maybe an
Engrossed Hillman, Drop White Hand Invaders to exert, and drop Gothmog to finish them off. Here is where I made my adjustments. I was thinking to myself how can I kill off the
Rapt Hillman if my opponent just assigns him somewhere so he lives? Granted with a
Pavise he is controlling 3 sites and they can liberate 1, but I'm greedy when it comes to my decks. This is when it struck me.....TOSS THE
PAVISE! Basically exert him to exhaustion then either play a
Mumak Rider at your plains or battleground or wait til skirmish phase and discard the
Courageous Easterling to grab that
Mumak Rider and get the same effect
. Since
Mumak Rider doesn't state discard a free people's possession or opponent's possesion I figured wow how simple. When Rapt is killed your
Pavise will stack nicely on
Countless Companies for the next one you play. So Grab those sites, discard the
Pavise and set up a nice bomb later with your White Hand Invaders and Gothmog.
I guess if I wanted to I could remove the
Rapid Reload from the deck, but I figure if the opponent runs 9 companions or I don't get the twilight needed to play enough Invaders and a Gothmog I can set up the kill by using the twilight I do get, soften them up early and hit them with a
steward's tomb at 6 and then just have to pay for the Gothmog
.
Let me know what you think and maybe what would be a decent free peoples side for the deck.
NK