Please help make my Dunland win :-)

[neopium]

Hi everyone,

I am looking for advice to improve my current Ents/Dunland deck.

The Ent side works correctly, but I have plenty of problems with the Dunland side.

Against archery it does not work at all and it requires plenty of twilight, so it is very sensitive to choke as well.

These are two strong weaknesses that make them very often inefficient...

When I play with a friend of my, I use sites from all blocks and thus can include the "skip archery phase" sites, but this is not always enough as I need (and don't succeed) to kill quite early on the site path.

Your experienced advice is appreciated :-)

Ring-bearer: Frodo, Courteous Halfling
Ring: The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles

Adventure deck:
Sleeping Quarters
West Road
Tower of Ecthelion
Anduin Banks
Crashed Gate
Minas Tirith Fifth Circle
Osgiliath Crossing
Morgul Vale
Dagorlad

Free Peoples Draw Deck:
1x Ent Horde
1x Gandalf, Leader of Men
1x Host of Fangorn
1x Lindenroot, Elder Shepherd
1x Quickbeam, Bregalad
1x Radagast, The Brown
1x Skinbark, Fladrif
1x Treebeard, Keeper of the Watchwood
3x Barliman Butterbur, Prancing Pony Proprietor
3x Gandalf's Staff
1x Narya
2x A Wizard Is Never Late
1x Deep in Thought
2x Fireworks
3x Out of the High Airs
4x Servant of the Secret Fire
4x Enraged
2x Ent Draught

Shadow Draw Deck:
4x Dunlending Arsonist
2x Dunlending Elder
4x Dunlending Reserve
2x Freca, Hungry Savage
1x Hill Chief
2x Hillman Horde
1x Hillman Mob
2x Saruman, Rabble-rouser
1x Wild Men of the Hills
4x Wulf, Dunlending Chieftain
3x Hides
3x War Club
2x No Retreat
2x Over the Isen

[-Enola-]

Here's the fellow winning the last French Nationals in Multipath :


Ring-bearer :10P121 • Frodo, Resolute Hobbit

The One Ring :4R1 • The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles

Adventure Deck
Isengard Ruined
West Road
Tower of Ecthelion
Anduin Banks
Crashed Gate
Minas Tirith Fifth Circle
Osgiliath Crossing
Morgul Vale
Dagorlad

Free Peoples Draw Deck
1x 5C17 Forest Guardian
1x 5R19 • Lindenroot, Elder Shepherd
1x 6R28 • Ent Horde
1x 6C33 • Quickbeam, Bregalad
1x 6R35 • Skinbark, Fladrif
1x 10R18 • Treebeard, Keeper of the Watchwood
1x 8R15 • Gandalf, Leader of Men
1x 9R+26 • Radagast, The Brown
4x 1U70 • Barliman Butterbur, Prancing Pony Proprietor
1x 3R34 • Narya
1x 2R22 • Gandalf's Staff
2x 1R83 Servant of the Secret Fire
1x 1R87 A Wizard Is Never Late
1x 3C30 Deep in Thought
1x 4R92 Grown Suddenly Tall
2x 4C93 Have Patience
1x 4U99 Roll of Thunder
1x 6U25 Crack Into Rubble
4x 8R20 Saved From the Fire
2x 7R50 Terrible and Evil
1x 10R17 Out of the High Airs
1x 5R116 • Sting, Baggins Heirloom
1x 10U116 • The Tale of the Great Ring

Free Peoples Total 32

Shadow Draw Deck
4x Dunlending Elder
4x Freca, Hungry Savage
4x Hillman Tribe
1x Hillman Horde
2x Saruman, Rabble-rouser
4x Hides
3x War Club
2x Ready To Fall
2x Over the Isen
4x Burn Every Village
1x Too long have these peasants stood
1x No Retreat

Shadow Total 32

[neopium]

Thanks... or should I say merci :-)

[Galdor420]

I've always loved Isenguard when it comes to dealing with archery. They might be worth mixing in for things like Spies of Saruman or Uruk-hai Armory. I've never played Dunland though so I'm no expert. Still if all else fails a 4th hides couldn't hurt and Saruman, Rabble-rouser is very efficent with 4 vitality for only 4 cost (and a useful game text to boot!)

[Ringbearer]

Hides is a standard 4-off in dunland. The rest depends greatly, but you have to choose. You have 2 site control dunland by example, or play from hand in skirmish dunland. You cannot have both in the deck as it diludes the strategy. Focus on one or the other (or maybe another strategy as win to fierce dunlands) and focus the entire deck on it. An example is the French deck posted above who goes clearly for 2 sites then spamming elders with Ready To fall.

[-Enola-]

Ringbearer is right. Btw it's a general advice for Shadow deckbuilding : have one target (mass wounds, corruption, need site control, swarm ...) and build only around this target, you can splash some cards preventing bad match-ups.

[neopium]

Thanks all for the advice.

I used to focus my dunland deck only on site control and 4 elders. In fact, except the elders, all the cards were site control targeted... But it didn't work very well.

At that time, I had no Freca, hungry savage at all: it's a real-life game, so I play with cards I really have. This also explains the 3 hides instead of 4. I had only 3 cards... I just bought the fourth one yesterday.

I will follow your advice and focus it back to site control and elders. Hope it will be enough to win at last :-)

Thanks all for your contributions!

[Ringbearer]

Yw