I have always loved the scene in RotK when the soldiers are arriving at Minas Tirith from the outlands of Gondor. But i have always resisted the Outlands deck out of principle (and partially because I am so angry that the Knights of the Swan are so lame.) Recently I thought what the heck, I'll give it a go. Surprisingly I actually didn't feel too dirty afterwards!

I haven't really kept up much with the meta though. Have the Outlands been developed much in the last two years? What does a modern outlands deck look like, if there is such a thing?

This is a good one: http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/1708/agressive-deck-series-1-outlands-3.0

Completely crushes 90% of quests.

I think the only explicitly Outlands card that has been released since the Against the Shadow cycle has been Prince of Dol Amroth, which has always felt like a bit of a win-more card to me.

I've been having fun with an Outlands / Harad mashup lately:
http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/4925/help-from-distant-lands-1.0

But I think a lot of modern Outlands decks use Erestor, like Seastan's example. What they really need is a faster start, and nothing is faster than Erestor.

20 hours ago, Seastan said:

This is a good one: http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/1708/agressive-deck-series-1-outlands-3.0

Completely crushes 90% of quests.

This deck is pretty absurd! Was just gold fishing with it and regularly getting down 5 allies on turn one.

21 hours ago, Authraw said:

I think the only explicitly Outlands card that has been released since the Against the Shadow cycle has been Prince of Dol Amroth, which has always felt like a bit of a win-more card to me.

I've been having fun with an Outlands / Harad mashup lately:
http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/4925/help-from-distant-lands-1.0

But I think a lot of modern Outlands decks use Erestor, like Seastan's example. What they really need is a faster start, and nothing is faster than Erestor.

Holy cow. Prince of dol amroth is bananas.

Started with the 13nrv build I feel like I upgrade it with my Galadriel version. I have a multiplayer one (http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/5318) and a solo one (http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/5741/erestor-outlands-for-solo-1.0)

Prince of Dol Amroth is in fact really low. Fun, thought but help you only when you can win without as Authraw says.