Following on from my "First deck" posting I tried the Theoderd, Dunhere, Eowyn deck--- without much success!!

I was very successful in keeping the threat level down, but with both the East Bight and the Brown Lands in the staging area was not able to make much progress.

I also seemed to be lacking allies. Looking back I see that of my fifty card deck only 17 were ally cards, 25 were vent cards and the rest attachments.

Does that look to be out of balance? Is there a general view on what the balance between these three aspects (ally, event, attachment) should be?

it changes per person and quest, but i would say

35-50% allies

out of the rest of the cards 50% should be attatchments, 50% events

this isnt worth much though....as this is a very generalised version of what i do. my deck building changes quite dramatically, often i have 1 deck with almost all of 1, and another with almost all of the remaining 2

rich

I try about half to be allies and the rest nearly 50-50 ... but depends on the quest

it depends what your doing. If you using Dunhere you do not need allies at all. Maybe some trackers.. but not many at all.. as in hardly any. As all you need are threat reduction, untap effects and dmg booting.. as dunhere is supposed to kill in staging area. There are no set % of allie ratios, it just depends oni your quest. For JDTA you want events and attachments. gandalf, sneak,Tomb,Greating etc for threat reduction. Then location managment like secret paths or w/e Quest slowly an get a auto, win

Interesting set of replies, so thanks to everyone.

I have upped the allies a little and tried again. Certainly got on much better, but I think that was down to more experience rather than the deck changes.

I will try the deck with a few tweaks a couple more times.

The key seems to be remembering EVERYTHING, playing every last card to it's full advantage. Forgetting once or twice (as I have) can be/is fatal!

But that's what make the game a challenge!

Thanks again

Philip

thats certainly true. this game needs you to be awake and aware of what is going on...i think thats why i lose so much!

Yeah, it's a complex (and difficult) game. Just played a two player game with like 35 cards being on the table at the same time. If there are a lot of effects on these (responses, forced effects and so forth) it can become difficult to play everything correctly...

that's 90 perfect of it It really is quite a demanding game. Experience and timing really matters!