New player needs solo and two player deck advice.

By thomarum, in Strategy and deck-building

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Hello

I have finaly bought the lord of the rings lcg. After trying the decks in core i soon ordered expansions. But I wonder if someone can help med to build a good solo deck and two decks for dual play. I have listed what I have. Hope to go througe the different scenarios that I have Solo or with a friend:) And then we will see if I buy some more. And do you also know what I should buy. Hehe it is alot to catch up with expansions. Love the game so far:)

What I have:

1xCore

Complete Shadows of Mirkwood Cycle

Khazad-dum Expansion

Complete Dwarrowdelf Cycle

Thanks for any help:)

Regards

Thomas

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The back to basics deck is a powerful core-only set with a good description of how to pilot it, you can read about it here:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1108855/back-basics-killer-deck-using-only-cards-single-co/page/1

With the core set only it's a 42-card deck, but adding cards he suggests from later expansions to the deck would give you something like this:

HEROES
Theodred
Eowyn
Beravor

LEADERSHIP (14)
x2 Faramir
x1 For Gondor!
x3 Guard of the Citadel
x2 Sneak Attack
x3 Snowbourn Scout
x2 Steward of Gondor

x1 Erestor

LORE (16)
x2 Erebor Hammersmith
x2 Forest Snare
x1 Henamarth Riversong
x3 Warden of Healing
x2 Miner of the Iron Hills
x2 Gleowine

x3 Daeron's Runes

x1 Burning Brand

SPIRIT (16)
x2 Northern Tracker
x1 Unexpected Courage
x3 Stand and Fight
x2 A Test of Will
x1 Dwarven Tomb
x2 Hasty Stroke
x2 The Galadrahim's Greeting

x1 Arwen Undomiel

x1 Bofur

x1 Elfhelm

TACTICS (1)
x1 Beorn

NEUTRAL (3)
x3 Gandalf

There's a companion two-deck listing here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/article/17876050

However that only includes suggestions from expansions through the end of the Mirkwood Cycle.

If you go to ringsdb.com, you can search for decks or fellowships (sets of decks) while indicating what card sets are legal. That will turn up a number of progression-style decks. For example, look at this fellowship used for two-players to go against Into the Pit

http://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/2253/into-the-pit-progression-series-11

Or this deck drawing though cards through Shadow and Flame:

http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/5210/shadow-and-flame-solo-progression-style-1.0

Playing decks like these -- or even just looking at them -- may give help you get ideas for your own decks.

I always recommend Beorn's Path to new players:

https://hallofbeorn.wordpress.com/beorns-path/

This alters a deck progression-style going through the entire Mirkwood cycle, then uses a new deck for Khazad-Dum. It sadly hasn't had new entries yet to progress through Dwarrowdelf.

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This is exactly what I have as well, although I've not had a chance to play recently.

A good dwarf based deck should be possible with this collection of cards.

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15 hours ago, dalestephenson said:

The back to basics deck is a powerful core-only set with a good description of how to pilot it, you can read about it here:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1108855/back-basics-killer-deck-using-only-cards-single-co/page/1

With the core set only it's a 42-card deck, but adding cards he suggests from later expansions to the deck would give you something like this:

HEROES
Theodred
Eowyn
Beravor

LEADERSHIP (14)
x2 Faramir
x1 For Gondor!
x3 Guard of the Citadel
x2 Sneak Attack
x3 Snowbourn Scout
x2 Steward of Gondor

x1 Erestor

LORE (16)
x2 Erebor Hammersmith
x2 Forest Snare
x1 Henamarth Riversong
x3 Warden of Healing
x2 Miner of the Iron Hills
x2 Gleowine

x3 Daeron's Runes

x1 Burning Brand

SPIRIT (16)
x2 Northern Tracker
x1 Unexpected Courage
x3 Stand and Fight
x2 A Test of Will
x1 Dwarven Tomb
x2 Hasty Stroke
x2 The Galadrahim's Greeting

x1 Arwen Undomiel

x1 Bofur

x1 Elfhelm

TACTICS (1)
x1 Beorn

NEUTRAL (3)
x3 Gandalf

There's a companion two-deck listing here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/article/17876050

However that only includes suggestions from expansions through the end of the Mirkwood Cycle.

If you go to ringsdb.com, you can search for decks or fellowships (sets of decks) while indicating what card sets are legal. That will turn up a number of progression-style decks. For example, look at this fellowship used for two-players to go against Into the Pit

http://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/2253/into-the-pit-progression-series-11

Or this deck drawing though cards through Shadow and Flame:

http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/5210/shadow-and-flame-solo-progression-style-1.0

Playing decks like these -- or even just looking at them -- may give help you get ideas for your own decks.

I always recommend Beorn's Path to new players:

https://hallofbeorn.wordpress.com/beorns-path/

This alters a deck progression-style going through the entire Mirkwood cycle, then uses a new deck for Khazad-Dum. It sadly hasn't had new entries yet to progress through Dwarrowdelf.

Thank you sooo much:)