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Stupid Deck Tricks

A Middle-earth deck designed for casual 2-deck play

Starting Characters:

Other Characters:

Resources:

Hazards:

Sideboard:


Explanation:

You'll note that all of the characters in the deck are sages. Idealy, the deck works like this:

  1. Go to Weathertop and Far-sight for the Palantir
  2. Get Palantir at Lossadan Cairn
  3. Go back to Rivendell and get Saruman and a Fellowship or two
  4. Go to The Wind Throne, face the auto-attack, play Rebuild the Town
  5. Give Bilbo an item.
  6. Next turn, tap Saruman and the Palantir to search for a Look More Closely Later. Tap someone with the LMCL to untap the site. Give Bilbo another item.
  7. Repeat until corruption may become a problem. Untap the site and head to Lorien to store items (and pick up a Fellowship and new characters if the opportunity presents itself).
  8. Grab a faction or two and go back to The Wind Throne to have some more fun.

The hazard portion has two themes. The most obvious is to get all the Nazgul on the table and use the Khamul Nazgul Machine to make your opponent drop his hand. The more subtle strategy is to play Great Secrets Buried There to try to convince your opponent to drop down to the under-deeps, where you can hit him with all sorts of fun stuff. Along with this theme are a couple cards which move companies around and Creul Caradhras, just for the fun of it.

The sideboard has stuff that was in the deck before but didn't quite fit in the rebuild. If you aren't using Saruman (if you have an LMCL in your hand, for instance) he can bring in something (FIF is if your opponent is Slayer/Assassin happy, FotV is to get the Rebuild the Towns et al. back into the shuffle, Secret Entrance is like a second Hiding, and Wizard Uncloaked can hamper corruption). Feel free to fill out the rest of the sidebaord.

This is the sort of deck to play when it's getting a bit late and you're looking for a silly game. Plus, there's something about cycling combos that's just really fun to think about.


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