Solo League 26 - The Lost Realm/Angmar Awakened with SoH/Haradrim cards

By Alonewolf87, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

Sorry for late reports, just trying to squeeze these in before the deadline. I had a grand scheme to build a clever Dunedain deck but was super busy this month and instead ran with my wife’s Noldor deck using Arwen/Erestor/Cirdan hero lineup. I’ll post up the exact deck once I count through it for outside cards.

Treachery of Rhudaur went pretty smooth with my Noldor engine taking off quickly and managing to clear 2/3 side quests before phase 2. Erestor was awesome wielding the lore attachments to protect against the hordes of the undead. Actually felt very thematic Elves against ghosts. 0 tokens used.

I was definitely worried about Carn Dum this month since I hadn’t built for it at all, but thankfully the Noldor deck my wife plays is a pretty well-tuned one so I was more optimistic after my first quest. I have never had such good luck on this quest before, I didn’t draw a single treachery card until the second phase of the quest. I instead plodded through locations and battled Orcs using powered up Guardians of Rivendell and Erestor wielding a burning brand again. What really helped too was getting Reforged + Steward of Gondor + Light of Valinor round one with both quests. Thanks to this strong start I was able to cruise into phase two with only two sorcery cards in play.

Phase two was a lot harder with Thaurdir hacking up my Elven Jewelers like they were firewood. Once my scrubs were all killed I kept playing Glorfindel each round from my discard and he was able to absorb the champion sides powerful attacks. This bought me time to quest big and then finish off my wraith enemy for a new personal best on Carn Dum for me: winning the first time I attempt it with a new deck. The encounter card draw luck was my biggest boon as treachery cards make this one insanely hard. Into the final quest.

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I won't get it done this time. Next month I will be back in. 🙂

Bye
Thanee

Well it ended up being the hardest of the three with a prolonged phased 2 from Daechanar staying alive due to treachery sorcery cards and some witches continually adding more, but in the end the strength of the Noldor (AKA the Guardians of Rivendell) held and I was able to finish at 43 threat the first time through. Though my deck had been empty for some time and other than recycling Elven Light for healing and Glorfindel for battling I was just using the forces I had in play, which were sizable. 0 tokens used.

It may not have been the trickery of the Dunedain I wanted but I got to witness the power of the Noldor against some pretty strong quests. Definitely a fan of these Elves.

Here is my wife’s deck there I ran:

https://ringsdb.com/deck/view/165600

Total outside cards 32 (surprising number of them were from these two cycles, I guess Noldor had a strong showing in Angmar Awakened)

See you guys next month in Ered Mithrin

Edited by General_Grievous
2 hours ago, General_Grievous said:

Well it ended up being the hardest of the three with a prolonged phased 2 from Daechanar staying alive due to treachery sorcery cards and some witches continually adding more, but in the end the strength of the Noldor (AKA the Guardians of Rivendell) held and I was able to finish at 43 threat the first time through. Though my deck had been empty for some time and other than recycling Elven Light for healing and Glorfindel for battling I was just using the forces I had in play, which were sizable. 0 tokens used.

It may not have been the trickery of the Dunedain I wanted but I got to witness the power of the Noldor against some pretty strong quests. Definitely a fan of these Elves.

Impressive results, congratulations

2 hours ago, General_Grievous said:

Here is my wife’s deck there I ran:

https://ringsdb.com/deck/view/165600

Total outside cards 32 (surprising number of them were from these two cycles, I guess Noldor had a strong showing in Angmar Awakened)

I fear that's not a public deck, but it doesn't matter

Shoot sorry here is the published one:

https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/18114/amandasnoldorreforged-2.0

And thanks Alonewolf, I got super lucky on Carn Dum but the deck is really strong, reforged is what the Noldor were missing to be able to play strong out of spirit sphere attachments and Erestor + Cirdan + Steward of Gondor + Arwen/Elven Light make for some really strong card draw and resource generation. Guardians of Rivendell are also beasts with the Wild Stallion/Raiment of War and a Lorien Cloak to be able to hold off against some strong attacks.

Edited by General_Grievous

Final standings:

0 General_Grievous (32)
5 Alonewolf87 (13)
6 rlogan4 (47)
10 Fredmans74 (47)

@General_Grievous wins the league and can choose a cycle for December's league. @Alonewolf87 finishes second and can choose a quest to play from that cycle. @rlogan4 finishes third and can choose a quest to exclude from that cycle. @Fredmans74 finishes last and gets to choose a supplemental cycle for player cards.

Join us next month for a trek around the wilds of Rhovanion, as we play Journey up the Anduin, Fire in the Night and The Fate of Wilderland

I think it’s time for the time counters of the Ringmaker cycle. So I choose that, just narrowly beating out POD quests for me.

Then I will choose The Dunland Trap

Nice, it has been a while since I played the Ringmaker cycle. I will exclude the Nin-in-Eilph.

@Fredmans74 You can choose the supplemental cards cycle then

Thank you. I will reverse history and let Gondor come for aid, Heirs of Numenor / Against the Shadow is my choice.

So December will see us playing against Voice of Isengard/Ringmaker with the addition of cards from the Heirs of Numenor / Against the Shadow cycle.

RNG selects To Catch an Orc and Celebrimbor's Secret to go with The Dunland Trap, so the mandatory heroes list is Tactics Eomer, Grima, Celeborn and Galadriel (Silvan decks seem to be up to a good start).

Awesome! Looking forward to it!