Gandalf choke & Moria

[jdizzy001]

indeed, cycling is very ahndy, but you don't need 3 copies of they are coming.  two is more than enough, play a goblin armory or another minion.

[Gil-Estel]

In moria you could easily use 3 they are coming, since the third copy, depending on what your opponent plays, can be easily discarded with the first one. Moria can be big, we all know and to have good cycling early on, is good.

[jdizzy001]

I just don't see the point of using 3, but then again, I am a victim of the 30/30 curse.

[neopium]

Hi everyone,

I know this post is dated, but I found it recently and though the Gandalf choke part was interesting. I thus created a deck very similar to this one (but with the cards I have) and I am looking for advice.

Even though Gandalf can be strong in this kind of deck, he is not impossible de defeat, especially when its equipment does not arrive early in the game.

What would you advice to heal him ? (I only have cards from the movie block and don't want to mix them with post-Shadows cards)

Thanks

[Knight-Who-Says-Nee]

I'm glad you found inspiration with the deck.

To answer your question, I've found that Intimidate works very well.  Instead of healing wounds you are preventing the wounds.  I don't have this card in my deck but if you want to focus on wounds go with Barliman Butterbur, Prancing Pony Proprietor to reload Intimidate.

One big change I've made to this deck is dropping Hobbit Intuition and adding Hobbit Stealth.  This should help keep some wounds off because you can cancel more skirmishes.

 

[Iron Prime]

This looks like a neat idea, and I am excited to try it.  I was wondering why you chose the 'generic' wizard staff over one of the Gandalf specific staves...  For the strength (vs vitality)?

[FM]

For the strength penalty effect, a choke deck is focused on getting Frodo to live, nothing else.

[Knight-Who-Says-Nee]

For the strength penalty effect, a choke deck is focused on getting Frodo to live, nothing else.

Exactly.

The text on Wizard Staff (2C29) "Skirmish: Exert bearer twice to make a minion strength -3." is to keep Frodo alive.