Been having lots of fun and success with these 2 decks and wanted to share. They've done well with tougher quests, and so far dominated the early saga quests. I'm planning to take them all the way to Mount Doom.

I've not used Beorn in a long while and these emerged from trying to protect him. Together, these have lots of quest, attack, and defense...

http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/6633

http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/6634

Wow, 6 unexpected courages. That's a lot of core sets!

Hehe. I just proxy them in one deck. Maybe I should have said that.

You wrote it in the comment of the decks so it was easy to understand ;).

I don't see many interaction between heroes, or between cards in the deck. It is not a fault but it is a little sad since I see heroes that I don't often see (Beregond tactics and Lanwyn, and a little bit Beorn too).

You play a lot of great cards but there is many ally who can be amazing in your deck: both knight of the swan and ethir swordmen in the tactics/spirit and envoy of pelargir in any deck (in both since you don't mind proxying). I always think that having ally on the very beginning is quite often a good path to the victory. There is no card based on the discard (except for elven-light), elven light who usually make silver harp not essential (or a one off eventually). Your spirit line up look like a Caldara one except for Lanwyn who seem stranger since nothing work with her. I'm pretty surprised too by your leadership splash. Steward of gondor is a well knowned card and way more powerful that "a day rising" don't you think? Even if you like both you can use some to reduce the number of a day rising to avoid having two identical unique cards at one point. But I will probably prefer to play 3 steward VS 2 steward and 1 a day rising.

I added it to the comments after dalestephenson mentioned it.

It feels like there's good interactions, but there was a bit more with Close Call and Well Warned. But when I dropped Close Call, I dropped the other as threat wasn't an issue as I keep completing quests fairly quick.

The one Silver Harp I like to play is only to keep both cards that Cirdan draws. Is Silver Harp not best option for him when including Elven-light? If so, I'll need an example as I'm not tracking.

What you said about allies is true, though I tend avoid Outlands, and I've had little need for chump blockers here. However, you're very correct about Steward of Gondor. I'd grown a bit tired of over-relying on it so I dropped it. Still, for optimal play (before I published) I should have put it in and kept my own self-hindering choices to myself. I've now added that to the notes.

Good thoughts.