Following the idea of this topic I created my own version of the Super Bilbo deck (which btw is fully inspired in Seastan's Super Bilbo deck, so all credits to him) and I gave it a Suicidal Support deck to check how the idea would work. I have tested it only twice, against Into Ithilien, with 2 clean victories (1st try I managed to survive a turn 1 with 3 Southron Company in the staging area and then all three engaged in combat... and later when the game ended Bilbo had 25 resources on him :S). I'll update this 1st post later as I test this deck against more quests.
Total Cards: 50
Heroes (starting threat: 24)
Beravor ( Core Set )
Bilbo Baggins ( The Hunt for Gollum )
Glorfindel ( Foundations of Stone )
Allies (4)
1x Henamarth Riversong ( Core Set )
3x Gandalf ( Core Set )
Attachments (16)
3x Steward of Gondor ( Core Set )
1x Gondorian Fire ( Assault on Osgiliath )
1x Blood of Númenor ( Heirs of Númenor )
1x Light of Valinor ( Foundations of Stone )
1x Unexpected Courage ( Core Set )
1x A Burning Brand ( Conflict at the Carrock )
1x Asfaloth ( Foundations of Stone )
3x Fast Hitch ( The Dead Marshes )
1x Song of Battle ( The Dead Marshes )
3x Song of Kings ( The Hunt for Gollum )
Events (30)
3x Gaining Strength ( The Steward's Fear )
3x Legacy of Númenor ( The Voice of Isengard )
3x Sneak Attack ( Core Set )
3x Wealth of Gondor ( Heirs of Númenor )
2x A Test of Will ( Core Set )
1x Will of the West ( Core Set )
3x Daeron's Runes ( Foundations of Stone )
3x Deep Knowledge ( The Voice of Isengard )
3x Mithrandir's Advice ( The Steward's Fear )
1x Peace, and Thought ( Shadow and Flame )
1x Word of Command ( The Long Dark )
2x A Good Harvest ( The Steward's Fear )
2x The Seeing-stone ( The Voice of Isengard )
Total Cards: 50
Heroes (starting threat: 32)
Boromir ( The Dead Marshes )
Caldara ( The Blood of Gondor )
Treebeard ( The Treason of Saruman )
Attachments (35)
3x Gondorian Shield ( The Steward's Fear )
3x Miruvor ( Shadow and Flame )
3x Song of Eärendil ( Road to Rivendell )
3x Ent Draught ( The Treason of Saruman )
3x Fast Hitch ( The Dead Marshes )
3x Love of Tales ( The Long Dark )
3x Boots from Erebor ( Khazad-Dûm )
3x Good Meal ( The Redhorn Gate )
3x Keys of Orthanc ( The Voice of Isengard )
3x Palantir ( Assault on Osgiliath )
2x Song of Battle ( The Dead Marshes )
3x Song of Kings ( The Hunt for Gollum )
Events (15)
3x Desperate Alliance ( On the Doorstep )
3x Daeron's Runes ( Foundations of Stone )
3x Deep Knowledge ( The Voice of Isengard )
3x Message from Elrond ( The Three Trials )
3x The Seeing-stone ( The Voice of Isengard )
Decks built with Love of Tales
Some commentaries:
- I love the original Super Bilbo deck, but I can't stand Erestor's drawback of having to discard everything at the end of the round, so that's why after swapping him out and testing with several other heroes around (Galdor, Galadriel, Amarthiúl, Lore Glorfindel) I think Spirit Glorfindel is the way to go. With him, the deck gets less "crazy" and so it's possible to leave just 1 Will of the West and remove the Silver Harps, Lays of Nimrodel and Songs of Travel, and in exchange Glorfindel gives access to spirit sphere, low starting threat, a strong hero right from the go (+1 will power compared to Erestor), and access to Asfaloth, probably the best location handler in the game.
- The Suicidal Support deck over-compensates the loss of Erestor imo. Most of the cards are meant to give instant support, thinking in the short-term. Make the support deck the 1st player, setup the main deck as much as possible, and then commit suicide to reveal one less card during staging. The star cards here are Deep Knowledge, Song of Eärendil and Desperate Alliance. The ideal situation is as follow: Put Song of Eärendil on Caldara, play all the Deep Knowledges around, both from the main deck and the support deck (you can fish for them with The Seeing-Stone), load all the threat in this support deck, and watch as both decks get flooded with cards. Overall, play the events from the main deck and this second deck alternately, optimizing card draw as much as possible. Ideally, at some point the main deck draws a Legacy of Númenor and the suicidal deck gets a Song of Kings, so, combo these cards and it'll let you play more cards from the support deck. Once you're done, with the help of Desperate Alliance give control of Treebeard to the main deck, which should help to get extra cards with Mithrandir's Advice.
Edited by Rajam