Played Assault on Osgiliath twice, won one of them. Still using the same deck. This scenario might be the most luck dependent of any in a long time. So much depends on how many Osgiliath locations come up, and when. Not to mention other nasty encounter cards that can come up. Only one quest card on this one too, that's different. Kind of interesting, I'll probably try to get at least another win before moving on.

Anyone try a monosphere deck with this one? If so, which sphere?

Put Vilya back in the deck. Played Blood of Gondor , got a win. I hate scenarios like this that swarm you with encounter cards.

Edited to say: Got another win, so I'll move on to the next scenario. I'd stick around and play it a few more times, but those hidden cards annoy me. It's nice when you have Faramir around to help deal with them. Took Favor of the Lady out of the deck. Still haven't drawn Vilya since putting it back in. Maybe next time.

Whew, finally defeated The Morgul Vale using a modified version of this deck:

https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/12970/morgulvalesoloprogression-1.0

Note that the author makes a mistake about the big boss Nazgul and the card "Infighting" , so I took the advice in one of the comments about replacing it with a "Ranger Bow " and some rangers.

That was a bear of a scenario though, hardest one yet it seemed like. I tried beating it with a mono tactics deck for awhile, then added in a Lore hero before trying the one listed above. I'm annoyed that I wasn't able to figure it out on my own, but I liked that deck because it introduced me to a lot of good cards I hadn't even considered using before. Sometimes I can't see the trees for the forest, it seems.

Thus ends the Against the Shadow cycle. I'll probably try to get another win against Morgul Vale before moving on (or actually back) to On The Doorstep. I say "actually back" because On The Doorstep was actually released in the middle of the Against the Shadow cycle. But I didn't want to interrupt the cycle to get involved with a Saga Expansion, seemed like it would ruin the flow.