A Stereotypical Secrecy Deck

By dalestephenson, in Strategy and deck-building

https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/10384/a-stereotypical-secrecy-deck-1.0

I actually did the analysis and built the deck back in August, but when I was posting analysis to BGG I had a long post eaten, got discouraged, and never got back around to recreating my work. So I've finally accepted I'll never be sufficiently motivated to redo the event analysis, and went ahead and published the deck. It's a Samwise/LoPippin/SpMerry deck, as you would expect. My search criteria was the presence of Resourceful, the absence of Strider, and a starting threat no higher than 24 (I pushed it up that high because TaEowyn 24-threat is really 21, and Galadriel starting at 24 can get into secrecy and stay there with reasonable frequency).

Why did you exclude Strider? Having a low hero count and thus starting threat would help in secrecy, in my opinion.

I excluded Strider because I think Strider decks are distinct enough to deserve their own stereotypical deck. Interestingly, Folco Boffin was the third most popular lore hero, just edging out Rossiel, even with Strider decks excluded.