My Women of Middle-earth Deck

By pinkfae, in Strategy and deck-building

I made my first deck using the female heroes available to me. I am using cards from the Core Set and the Mirkwood Cycle since that is all I currently own.

Total Cards: (34)

Hero: (3)
1x Eowyn (Core Set)
1x Eleanor (Core Set)
1x Beravor (Core Set)

Ally: (14)
2x Erebor Hammersmith (Core Set)
1x Henamarth Riversong (Core Set)
2x Miner of the Iron Hills (Core Set)
3x Gandalf (Core Set)
2x Northern Tracker (Core Set)
2x Escort from Edoras (A Journey to Rhosgobel)
2x Elfhelm (The Dead Marshes)

Attachment: (7)
2x Forest Snare (Core Set)
2x Protector of Lorien (Core Set)
1x Unexpected Courage (Core Set)
2x Ancient Mathom (A Journey to Rhosgobel)

Event: (13)
3x Lore of Imladris (Core Set)
3x Stand and Fight (Core Set)
2x A Test of Will (Core Set)
1x Dwarven Tomb (Core Set)
2x Hasty Stroke (Core Set)
2x The Galadhrim's Greeting (Core Set)

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Edited by pinkfae

Looks pretty good! Theoretically it's supposed to be a minimum of 50 cards, but don't feel obliged to include bad cards just to get to 50. I wouldn't replace anything currently in your deck, but if you want to add some cards here are some ideas in roughly the order I would add them:

Westroad Traveller is great at questing for the price. Also a woman.

Haldir has great stats and gives you good flexibility.

Burning Brand is really nice if you use Beravor as a defender.

Westfold Horse-Breaker can save you in a pinch when you need a hero ready.

Gleowine gives you some nice repeatable card draw, although you may not really need it when you have Beravor.

Elfhelm helps keep your threat low and would give you another good attacker.

Mirkwood Runner is a nice attacker against big enemies that have a lot of defense.

Daughter of the Nimrodel has repeatable healing (and she's a woman of Middle-Earth), although she's pretty expensive and fragile.

Radagast's Cunning and Secret Paths can be handy in a pinch for making progress or avoiding threat increase.

Lorien Guide is pretty good at questing if you need more of that.

Can you tell something more about this deck. I mean what is it's strategy, are there any good combos, what it does best (questing, fightning, card drawing etc...) and also what quests you have won so far?

I just don't see that if the deck is good or what if you don't explain how the deck works.

So glad to see this. I just picked up Core tonight, along with Heirs of Numenor for no good reason lol.

I misread Boromir. Thought of doing Boromir, Caldara,and Eleanor but Boromir only boosts allies, Caldara is basically single use, and Core seems to suggest you should focus on 1 stat.

Me likes it!

Core + Heirs of Numenor? Those were the first two I bought and I got totally hammered by all the quests in the latter. I would recommend picking up some packs with very strong player cards so you stand a chance. :)

Haha yeah I watched a YouTube video that said much the same. I also have the Black Riders because I didn't understand that I can't just take Nazgul and add them to my core encounter deck. I just wanted to squeal when ringwraiths came into play.

I'm compiling a deck now based on mono spirit and applying what I've learned so far from the forums, youtube, websites, and having played a little more. I wonder if there is a deck building site that will summarize the sets I need to buy to make the deck come to fruition.

Core + Heirs of Numenor? Those were the first two I bought and I got totally hammered by all the quests in the latter. I would recommend picking up some packs with very strong player cards so you stand a chance. :)

Someone else who did the same thing as me! I bought Heirs after the Core set to get Beregond. Needless to say for a while the only quests I could beat were Passage through Mirkwood and Journey Along the Anduin. Ah good times. Must have played and lost Peril and Into Ithilien so many times before I bought a whole ton of AP's and other deluxe boxes.

Can you tell something more about this deck. I mean what is it's strategy, are there any good combos, what it does best (questing, fightning, card drawing etc...) and also what quests you have won so far?

I just don't see that if the deck is good or what if you don't explain how the deck works.

There isn't a real strategy to the deck other than a theme that all of the heroes are female.