poorman's lotr Brokeness

[Gil-Estel]

tarting:
Frodo RA
common ring
Sam, Great Elf Warrior
Merry, Learned Guide
Pippin, Woolly-footed Rascal

sites:
1:exert hobbit to play Merry or Pippin
2:only hobbits = no assignement
3:play hobbit to draw a card
4:add a burden
5:play the ancient deamon
6:heal the hobbits
7:Why don't we stop the archery
8:Hey, maybe I spot 5 orcs
9:when people are still around..play 3 trackers

freeps:
Merry LG 4x
Pippin WFR 4x
Stout and Sturdy 2x
Bill the pony
Hobbit Stealth
Hobbit Sword
old noakes
Bounder
Hobbit Party Guest
Hobbit Farmer 3x
filibert bolger
bilbo, wellspoken gentlehobbit 3x
Rosie Cotton, Hobbiton Lass
A Talent for Not Being Seen 2x
Practically Everyone Was Invited (PEWI)3x
the tale of the great ring
There and Back Again

shadow (lingering)
Orc Ambusher 2x
orc butcher
orc insurgent 2x
great hill troll 4x
mordor fiend 4x
The Eye of Sauron 2x
great peril of fire
The Dark Lord's Summons 4x
Forces of Mordor
troll's chain 2x
tower walkway
their marching companies 4x
great siege towers 4x

Before some people try to burn me for playing Mordor Fiend take a few moments to read this. Also people who don't know what Mordor Fiend does...stick around!

oh and you don't want to start, so bid high and let the other person walk. Hopefully he doesn't benefit from your sites. The keyword for the fellowship is: play as much as you can and if possible, play it from your drawdeck!
With a few friends we play this awesome game for quite some time. We organise little get-to-gethers and sometimes a tournement. This time we dicided to play a no-rare tournement. Also we wanted to play the fellowship sites and we use cards from the first 10 sets. We are aware of the X-list but we decided to make our own. We argued which cards should get a ban and which cards shouldn't. I suggested to ban Mordor Fiend, for I had seen it's power. I played for fun the deck called Unstoppable Sauron and two of my friend got slaugthered. You can imagine my surprise when only 1 friend also wanted to ban this card. Then I knew I had to play Mordor Fiend!

Strategy

Mordor Fiend and The Dark Lord Summons (TDLS) need one thing: a filtered deck. For those of you who do not know the combo: with TDLS you can remove 3 to reveal the top card of your drawdeck. Is it a Sauron card you can take it in to hand. If not, you must discard it and another card from hand. Mordor Fiend alows you to add more twiligth. Well that said you need to cycle your deck. I wanted as much fellowship cards gone by the time I wanted to unlease the shadow. First I thought I needed to draw a lot of cards. So I did. But then I realized there was a weakness. Drawing cards gives alot of cards in hand and makes it clog. Then I had to discard also good shadow cards, and I don't want that.

With this fellowship I can play hobbits from my drawdeck and draw some cards.

The shadow works pretty awsome. When you don't expect conditionremoval play all engines you can and also 1 TDLS. Then you just wait and let your opponent walk. At the right moment unlease the hate. Start with Mordor Fiend, play all 9 engines, play the 4 trolls, and then try to play all the rest of your shadow that is left!

Some cards:

PEWI: play hobbits from my drawdeck

Hobbit Farmer: plays my site 1 and is so kind to gain the gametext so I can play from my drawdeck Merry and Pippin whom I discard during skirmish

Great Peril of Fire: Awesome card. My engines are only there to make my trolls cheap. If my opponent depends on conditions they're all gone in the maneuver! If I don't need it I discard it when TDLS draws me a fellowshipcard

Eye of Sauron: play it immediately. To draw cards in your shadow is just great.

Orc inseurgent: facing a rainbow fellowship this cheap orc adds twiligth and draws cards! Great!

Orc Butcher: People get butchered when he sees 12 conditions

Orc ambusher: cheap orc with possibility to make other minions cheaper. Comes in handy to play all your conditions.

forces of mordor: adds 1 for each minion..pretty good

Troll's chain: maybe I can play it, adds strength and draws a card. I sure don't need it so it can be discarded when TDLS draws me a fellowship card.

I think this is the best way to play this deck with only common and uncommon cards. If you know a better way, please let me know. I was pretty succesful by winning all my 5 games. It was great to see a friend of mine who thought he was save getting a beat-up. He was at site 7 with a 5 people fellowship all heavenly armed and suited for battle. But then with little twiligth given he was facing 4 trolls, 2 mordor fiends, 1 orc insurgent, an orc butcher and 1 or 2 ambushers....he was gone!

So if you review, keep in mind this is a no-rare deck, bound by a few restrictions!


Enjoy!

[SomeRandomDude]

I'd run the Maggot nabbing site 1 with the uncommon Maggot. B/C you're starting Maggot already.

And I officially hate you for playing fiend. This, like, isn't even OPEN format.

[MR. Lurtzy]

What is the poorman's format?

[Gil-Estel]

I'd run the Maggot nabbing site 1 with the uncommon Maggot. B/C you're starting Maggot already.

And I officially hate you for playing fiend. This, like, isn't even OPEN format.

...says the guy who runs a FruitLoop deck......

Poorman's lotr doesn't contain rares.....

[SomeRandomDude]

Fruit loops isn't nearly as broken as Fiend. A dozen card combo is more difficult to pull off than a 2 card combo.

[Gil-Estel]

If someone had included The Tale of the Great Ring, they would have been fine......-until fierce skirmishes-.....

[Elendil!Urukfear]

Uhhh... What's wrong with fruit loop and fiend decks? Srry, I'm so new to this kinda stuff

[TheJord]

Fruit Loops when setup does the following in one turn

Discards all minions
Decks out your opponent
Makes the move limit +10000000000000
Heals all your companions
Removes all burdens

So you can see why its so broken

Fiend decks mean a 17+ minion swarm when setup properly... with a Horn deck at site 2 normally. Horrid. My Infinite Gandalf got swarmed at site 2 with 117 strength on Gandalf RB.

[SomeRandomDude]

^^Yes it did, it most certainly did.

[Elendil!Urukfear]

Fruit Loops when setup does the following in one turn

Discards all minions
Decks out your opponent
Makes the move limit +10000000000000
Heals all your companions
Removes all burdens

So you can see why its so broken

Fiend decks mean a 17+ minion swarm when setup properly... with a Horn deck at site 2 normally. Horrid. My Infinite Gandalf got swarmed at site 2 with 117 strength on Gandalf RB.

Wowwww....... I can hardly make a monster sam deck, let alone make a minion 117 strength.
But that just reminded me that I'm making a gandalf follower deck, I still need the two Eagle lords and a few more cards to make it at least 30.

[Gate Troll]

Fruit Loops when setup does the following in one turn

Discards all minions
Decks out your opponent
Makes the move limit +10000000000000
Heals all your companions
Removes all burdens

So you can see why its so broken

Fiend decks mean a 17+ minion swarm when setup properly... with a Horn deck at site 2 normally. Horrid. My Infinite Gandalf got swarmed at site 2 with 117 strength on Gandalf RB.

Wowwww....... I can hardly make a monster sam deck, let alone make a minion 117 strength.

Its not one minion that becomes 117 strength, its a bunch of minions all on the same dude.

[Elendil!Urukfear]

Oh, U-hehe 

[SomeRandomDude]

Yeah, a half dozen trolls, some 20 strength orcs...

[Elendil!Urukfear]

Yea, Gog was telling me about those kinda decks. Sounds pretty sweet!