First time I felt capable of entering (skills- and expansion-wise). I had a real blast devising a deck for it, using some (for me) shiny new cards like Lore Aragorn and A Elbereth Gilthoniel. I love Aragorn's capability to hit "reset". It bought me time to build up card draw (Gleowine) and get OtHUtH Gandalf up just in time to engage the troll. During my practice runs I found myself struggling a bit, because the initial quest power is 6 and sensible to the wrong encounter set up. I finished at threat 45, had to drop Gandalf at 41, but then Treebeard was up and in Orc-crunching mode. I am now eagerly anticipating getting the wrong hero imprisoned and adding some tokens.
https://ringsdb.com/deck/view/219220
As a curiosity, I run a hardcore deck alongside this, built from a single core, Mirkwood and the two first saga boxes (which I have). It was built on Imrahil, Eowyn and Tactics Merry. Phew, one Unexpected Courage, two A Test of Will etc is such a challenge. I was close at 2 valar tokens, but got swamped in the end (too many surges and too many wounded heroes), but made it at 3.
This is the link for that deck:
https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/16547/junetesthardcoretest2-1.0
Thanks for arranging this. It will not be the last time I enter.
Edited by Fredmans74