With a couple of core sets, and some proxy cards, I decided to start building 2 decks to play the first scenario. My thinking is that at Difficulty=1, I should be able to beat this with a constructed deck. If I cant, what hope do I have of the other quests.

I had already played scenario 1 solo with most of the decks and had limited success. Tactics deck was a waste of time, the spirit deck ran ok, but I think we were lucky. I've also played the game 2 player a couple of times (again, using the starter decks), won one and lost one.

Anyway, with 3 each of 15 different cards per sphere. Add in 4 heroes and 2 Gandalfs, and you have a legal 50 card deck. However, it isnt really 'constructed' as you've just used everything you have. So I decided that I would 'relax' the construction rules until more cards are available. I went with a 40 card deck limit to allow mono.

However, I then threw together 2 dual sphere decks, using the 40 card min rule. This allowed me to properly construct a deck and have a lot of choice about what cards I used and which I chose to left out.

Good news is that I beat the first scenario on turn 5. It wasnt a walk in the park. I lost 3 heroes in total and at one point almost threw the game away due to a mistake. What I did learn though was useful. One of my decks had 2 Leadership heroes and 1 Lore hero. I had the right mix of Leadership and Lore cards, but some of my Lore cards were too high a cost, and since I was only generating 1 Lore resource a turn, a lot of these cards wouldnt get played. I did however have Eowyn in the other deck, and Protector of Lorien, so always a way to discard cards. Turn 3, the Lore hero got killed, which means all these cards couldnt be played.

But, with Eowyn and 2 Favour of the Lady on here, along with Aragorn with the +2 Willpower stone and readying after questing, I was able to slap down so many progress tokens on the quests, got it done in no time. Finished the game during the ad break whilst watching Game of Thrones

Next plan, tweak the decks a bit and then try the second scenario.

EDIT (why cant I edit my original post). Seems that deck needs to be 50 cards not including the heroes. So right now, you cant actually build a legal mono-sphere deck.

You can edit it. After the edit button disappears instead press Report to moderator link and in the address bar where it says "reportar" type instead "editar" and edit away.

You're using 4 heroes? The max number is 3.

Titan said:

He was using two different decks.

Toqtamish said:

you are right, he was, but I actually think he was also using 6 heroes and the 4 is a typo (should have been a 3).

3X15, plus 3 heroes, plus 2 gandalfs = 50, which makes sense in the context of being a legal deck. so in effect Paul made two legal decks and lpayed them both simultaneously I guess (except he had wrongly counted the 3 heroes as part of each deck, so they weren't actually legal, until he made them dual sphere)...

It was a typo. I meant add in 3 heroes. Sorry to have caused so much confusion. Each deck was 3 heroes.

In the end, I played them with 40 card decks, but this may have been 37 cards and 3 heroes. I'll be tweaking the decks anyway and will up them both to 40 cards + 3 heroes.

This means that they are not 'legal' but am just playing for fun now. It means I have more chance of getting the cards I really want, but will add more cards to my decks to make them "less good".