Solo Deck Help for Core Set Quests

By cleardave, in Strategy and deck-building

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I'm trying to concot a deck design that could solo its way through the Core Set quests. Usually when I play, it's two player, or "two fisted" solo if I want to playtest the decks before a game night.

I originally tried to run a solo deck against the Core quests when I first got the game. I made it through Mirkwood alright, was 50/50 against River, but could not get past Escape.

Since then, I've more or less stayed current with the game, up to the Hobbit Saga Expansion. So with this available card pool;

One Core Set

Mirkwood Cycle

Khazad-Dum

Dwarrowdelf Cycle

Hobbit: Over Hill and Under Hill

…what are everyone's thoughts on a solo deck setup? Again, my goal is to try and use that deck to play through the Core Set quests. I always feel like I'm leaving something important out, being limited to 3 heroes, and trying to keep resources coming in to pay for cards.

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The decks that Caleb (the game designer) built and featured in News section of the site are pretty decent:

Second Breakfast

Second Breakfast: Second Helpings

I'm pretty new to the game and these decks seemed to work pretty well for me. Otherwise, there are tons of submitted decks on CardGameDB and many of them are pretty decent.

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after playing from the start of the game solo, the best deck i have ever come up with is my famous 'fight to the ford' deck….namely

Glorfindel spirit/ Frodo/ Aragorn lore

basicly its a noldor deck that utilizes frodos threat damage ability, and glorfindels low start threat and aragorns threat reset.

heres something like it

Hero (3)
Frodo Baggins (CatC) x1
Glorfindel (FoS) x1
Aragorn (TWitW) x1


Ally (14)
Master of the Forge (SaF) x3
Imladris Stargazer (FoS) x2
Arwen Undomiel (TWitW) x1
Daughter of the Nimrodel (Core) x1
Haldir of Lorien (AJtR) x1
Rivendell Minstrel (THFG) x2
Gandalf (Core) x1
Mirkwood Runner (RtM) x3


Attachment (20)
Light of Valinor (FoS) x2
Asfaloth (FoS) x2
Ancient Mathom (AJtR) x3
Song of Wisdom (CatC) x2
Song of Travel (THoEM) x1
A Burning Brand (CatC) x1
Fast Hitch (TDM) x2
Miruvor (SaF) x3
Ranger Spikes (HON) x3
Unexpected Courage (Core) x1


Event (16)
A Test of Will (Core) x3
Dwarven Tomb (Core) x3
Elrond's Counsel (TWitW) x3
Fortune or Fate (Core) x1
Hasty Stroke (Core) x3
The Galadhrim's Greeting (Core) x3

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fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efid=285&efcid=4&efidt=736831

The deck here has supposedly solo'd almost every quest released to date and it looks like he pulled from the same card pool as you

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joezim007 said:

fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efid=285&efcid=4&efidt=736831 The deck here has supposedly solo'd almost every quest released to date and it looks like he pulled from the same card pool as you

Nope.

It is made with 2 core set