Taking Back the Questing Crown - Community Deck Contruction

When we bought our core sets, we were handed four decks of 30 cards, and had to figure out what to do with them.  When I got to that blue deck, I looked at the four willpower of Eowyn, plus her discard ability, I assumed that Spirit was deck for questing.  As time has gone on, looking at cards such as Sword that was Broken, Visionary Leadership, and the ability to get a bunch of allies on the board, Leadership has become the superior choice in many cases.

My intention is to build a strong questing deck with only Spirit heroes.  I started added all the cards I wanted, and got up to over 90 cards!  I started to think how I could trim it down, but instead, I thought I'd throw it out to community to take over from here.

My thought in putting this together is that this deck will handle the majority of questing, but also be able to handle a bit of combat.  Defense is handled either by Gandalf or using White Tower Watchmen to tank undefended attacks.  Attacking back can be handled a variety of ways.  I have Herugrim to bolster Eowyn's attack, or Fair and Perilous to make Cirdan a threat.  If all the pieces fell together, I'd love to Eowyn, with Herugrim and Elf-friend attached, use her discard ability, then using Fair and Perilous and/or Nenya to boost her attack to ridiculous levels.  This combo could be expanded.  Protector of Lorien and Lay of Nimrodel are both included to help with questing or continue to boost the aforementioned Eowyn or Cirdan combos.  I take advantage of Nenya and Narya giving their wielders Lore and Leadership, respectively, by including various attachments and events, such as Steward of Gondor, which I would expect to best go on Galadriel, 

With that said, I hand this over to the Lord of the Rings LCG community.  What are your thoughts on the deck?  The first thing I'd like to do is see what we feel needs to be trimmed off.  Because of Cirdan cycling through cards, and the other card draw opportunities, I don't think it's necessary to get down to exactly 50, but the deck size is a little silly right now.  Feel free to reply on Twitter, leave a comment on Facebook, or any other way you wish to respond.  I want to start more of a conversation between myself and the greater LOTR crew, so I encourage anyone who wants, to respond in their own blogs, or record a video or an audio clip.  If you do, I will share it so everyone can check it out.

Total Cards: (96)

Hero: (3)

Círdan the Shipwright (The Grey Havens)

Eowyn (Core Set)

Galadriel (Celebrimbor's Secret)

Ally: (28)

3x Arwen Undomiel (The Watcher in the Water)

3x Curious Brandybuck (The Wastes of Eriador)

3x Escort from Edoras (A Journey to Rhosgobel)

3x Ethir Swordsman (The Steward's Fear)

3x Galadriel’s Handmaiden (Celebrimbor's Secret)

3x Pelargir Shipwright (Assault on Osgiliath)

2x Gandalf (Over Hill and Under Hill)

2x Treebeard (The Antlered Crown)

3x White Tower Watchman (The Drúadan Forest)

3x Envoy of Pelargir (Heirs of Numenor)

Attachment: (37)

3x Herugrim (The Treason of Saruman)

3x Light of Valinor (Foundations of Stone)

3x Map of Earnil (Assault on Osgiliath)

3x Mirror of Galadriel (Celebrimbor's Secret)

3x Snowmane (The Land of Shadow)

3x Silver Harp (The Treachery of Rhudaur)

3x The Favor of the Lady (Core Set)

1x Elf-friend (The Treachery of Rhudaur)

3x Narya (The Grey Havens)

3x Nenya (Celebrimbor's Secret)

1x Celebrian's Stone (Core Set)

3x Protector of Lorien (Core Set)

2x Steward of Gondor (Core Set)

3x Unexpected Courage (Core Set)

Event: (31)

3x A Test of Will (Core Set)

3x Elrond's Counsel (The Watcher in the Water)

3x Lay of Nimrodel (The Morgul Vale)

3x The Galadhrim's Greeting (Core Set)

1x Will of the West (Core Set)

3x Fair and Perilous (Across the Ettenmoors)

3x Daeron's Runes (Foundations of Stone)

3x Deep Knowledge (The Voice of Isengard)

3x Word of Command (The Long Dark)

3x Elwing’s Flight (The Grey Havens)

3x Dwarven Tomb (Core Set)

My Newest Hobbit

My first blog post was made from a hospital room, so I figured this would be appropriate. Meet Matthew Oliver. Born 2/16 at 12:35 pm. He has two other hobbits waiting for him at home, ready to make mischief.

Nightmare Run Episode 13 - Return to Mirkwood (2p)

Matt and I attempt to return Gollum to King Thranduil.

Nightmare Run Episode 12 - The Dead Marshes (2p)

Matt and I skip over Emyn Muil and go straight to tracking down Golem.  

COTR New Years Eve Mega-Stream!

I missed them posting the video since it didn't go through their standard YouTube channel.  I was on the COTR New Years Eve stream.  We chatted, had a trivia contest, and then I helped Brandon pilot his deck.  A very challenging task when you have to deal with stream delay.  Enjoy!

Nightmare Black Riders Contest Winner!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered the contest.  Out of the 17 who entered, either on Facebook or Twitter, the winner was Thomas Vos, from the Netherlands.  Congrats to him, and I will be sending the cards out as soon as possible.

Temple of the Decieved - I'm the Map!

FFG has announced the third adventure pack in the Dream-chaser cycle, Temple of the Deceived.  In this adventure, we see a new take on locations, by using them to make a map of an uncharted island.  I am very excited by this news, as location lock has been a concern since the beginning of the game.  Instead of drawing these locations, they start out in play, in such a way that they make a map you move around and explore.  Only adjacent locations to your active location are considered in the staging area, and thus you have a better idea of what to expect, and not get bogged down by locations.

In addition to this news, we got some previews regarding the scout trait, with three different cards.  If these three cards are an example of things to come, I'm very interested to play around with the trait.