Elrond and Co.

It's really really amazing how different these decks are from the originals. 8 pages of evolution will do that, huh? Anyway, your totals for each category are way off for the first deck; should be 18 allies, 19 attachments, and 12 events.

Yeah man they are so different from what I was originally using haha. It is a pretty interesting evolution of them as new quests and player cards were released.

Thanks for catching that, I'll fix it up now =)

Elrond and Co.

Looks like you took out the Rivendell Bows to add the Marksman... Sensible enough, replacing cards that give your characters Ranged with two characters who already have Ranged.

Also replaced the Handmaidens with the Couriers. Location control more important that threat control?

Sorry about the delayed response joezim. Yeah I figured taking out the bows for this very powerful new silvan ally was the way to go. The ally has 3 attack so has just as much base attack as the heroes the rivendell bow would normally go on (Glorfindel or Elladan) and also has his ability which is a nice extra touch and can help take down an especially tough foe. He also has 2 hitpoints so doesn't die from 1 damage to all characters effects.

I have actually reversed the change from the Handmaidens to the Couriers. Willpower is simply king and there are some other new changes that the Handmaidens have come back in to support as well!!

Elrond and Co.

As always thanks so much for reading and any feedback whatsoever would be very much appreciated!

I've been considering making a deck based around Gandalf like that, except even more so, and the release of Narya is only fueling that. You should record some games and show us how this deck really goes.

I've always really wanted to do turn by turn reports of games (like on hall of beorn, this sort of format: https://hallofbeorn.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/beorns-path-part-12-the-dead-marshes/) but find it extremely time consuming and full on. I have done it a few times for harder quests like when I first managed to beat Journey in the Dark and also completely avoid the balrog whilst doing so.
I would love to properly record some games (perhaps you mean actual video rather than a turn by turn report but thats even more unlikely...) and give a turn by turn report for them and really showcase what the decks can do and some of the combos you can pull off or very strong board states you can achieve.
Definitely going to try and do this in the near future..

Evenstar

Line of the Half-Elven

Being able to over commit to the quest with an additional hero or two, being able to then ready and buff the willpower of two questing characters and finally exhausting another characters to seriously buff a power attacker or power defender and then being able to mash enemy face in. All of this for a few spirit resources from both decks (Elwing's Flight and Tale of Tinuviel) and a decent setup which the decks can easily achieve in most games with the amazing card draw and resource acceleration provided by Arwen and Gandalf's staff in the games that you get it out. This has some great potential and can shut down some seriously nasty foes while also helping greatly with your questing ability. Noldor/Dunedain decks are where its at right now!

There have been many changes to the decks to combat this threat ( ) and the newest addition of Aragorn himself is potentially the most powerful. The lore/spirit deck can be allowed to go to very high levels of threat to reset itself back to 30, because there are still so many other threat reduction cards in the decks this ability is used to absorb as much threat from the other deck as possible in a way.

So I think that I have covered everything I can think of for right now! Hope you enjoyed the read and give the decks a try if you have the inclination and time or means to do so. Any feedback or comments are more than welcome so would love to see some!

Nice. I like thre detailed strategy post, even though it took a while to read. Just a couple of notes:

-You didn't actually swap out Lords of the Eldar for Elwing's Flight in the decklist even though you talked about it.

-How useful is Lindir? Does the second deck run out of cards enough that his ability is useful?

-Tale of Tinuviel only gives the boosts until the end of the phase, so your idea of using it during questing would only work for willpower unless enemies start attacking you during quest resolution.

Again, good stuff. I always find it interesting to see your posts here, because since you use these decks all the time you've obviously put a ton of thought into them and that's really interesting to see, even though it's somewhat opposite to my general attitude/approach to the game ("Build ALL of the decks").

Ah yeah bugger completely forgot that it is until the end of the phase... that's not nearly as good... at least it still readies them after the boost so you get the boost for questing then they are at least ready to perform another action albeit without the boosted stats. At least in combat with a second readying effect you can make it last for both a defense and an attack... need more copies of UC hahaha

Lindir is not bad at all actually, because the deck he is lacks the card draw the other has he often draws at least one card (replacing himself) and a couple of times has gotten me two cards. He isn't amazing but is pretty useful and has decent stats too.

thanks for the feed back man! really appreciate it!

thank you for the great read - especially the extensive strategy part!

i will test the updated decks in the next days..

I have to admit... I could not make it through that whole post.

Anyway, I was talking about recording your games on video. I know first-hand that writing everything down can be painstakingly long.

Do you play on OCTGN, or just with the real cards? If you play on OCTGN, I'd love to schedule a game with ya. Maybe we can play 3 player with you controlling both these decks and I'll bring my own deck. Then I can do the recording and put it up on YouTube if you want.

I play with just the real cards... I should really try to get OCTGN set up though, I would love to play a game with you that sounds great! Would be awesome to have some recordings as well!!! I'll have a look at setting up OCTGN on my partners mac in the next few days (my computer is busted at the moment..) and let you know how I go!
I actually just changed the decks again Didn't do a massive write up though just posted a new thread with the new versions!

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/203930-the-grey-company-and-the-line-of-the-half-elven/