Deck 18 : Seven for the Dwarf-lords

To fulfill a scenario a player has to meet all deck building requirements during the whole game, and additionally the winning requirements for a certain scenario at the end of a game. There are 16 wizard scenarios and 6 ringwraith scenarios...

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Fangorn
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This deck is designed for Seven for the Dwarf-lords scenario.

Deck requirements : none.
Winning requirements : 4 Dwarven rings with different effects have been in possession of a Dwarf at the end of a turn and 2 Dwarven factions are in play at the end of the game.



Character Pool

Starting Company
Thrain II + Cram
Balin
Kili
Fili
Bombur
+ Rumours of Rings

In deck
Bofur
Bifur
Thorin II
Gloin
Oin


Wizards Characters

Gandalf
Gandalf
Gandalf
Dwalin
Dori
Nori
Ori


Resources

Precious Gold Ring
Precious Gold Ring
Precious Gold Ring
Fair Gold Ring
Fair Gold Ring
Fair Gold Ring
Beautiful Gold Ring
Beautiful Gold Ring
Beautiful Gold Ring

Ringlore

Blue Mountain Dwarves

Thorough Search
Thorough Search
Thorough Search
An Unexpected Party
An Unexpected Party

The Dwarves are upon You !
The Dwarves are upon You !
The Dwarves are upon You !
Concealment
Concealment

A Chance Meeting
A Chance Meeting
A Friend or Three

Marvels Told
Smoke Rings
Smoke Rings
Smoke Rings
Longbottom Leaf
Longbottom Leaf


Hazards

Durin's Folk
Durin's Folk
Durin's Folk
Orc War-band
Orc War-band
Ghouls
Ghouls
Ghouls
Dunlendings Raiders
Steward's Guard
Corsairs of Umbar
Corsairs of Umbar

Mouth of Sauron
Smaug at Home
Dror

Alone and Unadvised
Alone and Unadvised
Alone and Unadvised
Left Behind
Left Behind
Left Behind
Pierced by Many Wounds
Pierced by Many Wounds
Pierced by Many Wounds
Returned Beyond all Hope
Revealed to all Watchers
Chance of Being Lost

An Unexpected Outpost
An Unexpected Outpost
An Unexpected Outpost


Sideboard

Dwarven Ring of Durin's Tribe (untap)
Dwarven Ring of Bavor's Tribe (greater)
Dwarven Ring of Dwalin's Tribe (major)
Dwarven Ring of Thrar's Tribe (minor)
Ringlore
Ringlore
Look More Closely Later
Petty-dwarves
Free to Choose
Free to Choose
Forod
Iron Hill Dwarves
Withdrawn to Mordor
Wizard's River Horses
Wizard's Test
Scroll of Isildur
Goldberry

Ireful Flames
Something Else at Work
Seized by Terror
Lost in Free-domains
The Roving Eye
Unhappy Blows
Short Legs are Slow
Bane of the Ithil-stone
Diminish and Depart
Spider of the Morlat
Mordor in Arms
Muster Disperses
Twilight


Sites

Blue Mountain Dwarf-hold => Blue Mountain Dwarves
The Worthy Hills => Petty-dwarves, Ringlore
Iron-hill Dwarf-hold => Iron-hill Dwarves

Ost-in-edhil, Goblin-gate, Gladden Fields, Isengard, Isles of the Dead that Live => Gold Rings
Weathertop, Dimrill Dale, Amon Hen, Stone-circle => Ringlore

Carn-dum, Moria, The Stones => Scroll of Isildur
Old Forest => Goldberry


Deck description

Starting characters are Dwarf sages and scouts.
Starting company requires 14 GI.
Give Cram to Thrain, which is the only ranger.
If Thrain is bounced, play Thorin instead (having no ranger is counterbalanced by Thorough Search).

Wizard is naturally Gandalf, with his innate ability to test gold rings.
Back-up Wizard is Pallando, because of his home site in Grey Havens (see later for Forod trick).


MP cards straight in deck are rings, rings, and rings (quick draw and defense against Rolled Down to the Sea).
Only one Ringlore is straight in deck to reduce early draw : other ones are in sideboard.
Only Blue Mountain Dwarves is straight in deck ; Petty-Dwarves must be indeed easily influenced by a ringbearer.

Companies don't only rely on brutal force (An Unexpected Party and The Dwarves are upon You !).
Starting with scouts for Thorough Search allow indeed mix with Concealment.


Hazard part is very fun, but combo is needed to work.
All creatures have 5 strikes and are easily playable.
Creatures are less week against small companies thanks to Pierced by Many Wounds (don't forget played for free !).

The combo need 3 cards to target a key (WR) character or item :
- the creature itself
- with Left Behind (note it's playable on a detainment attack too)
- and finally Alone and Unadvised
Thus key character faces alone multiple CC !


Play Notes

Two companies are needed, because WR are long to gather (even if individually easy).
Starting company is main company.
Build a second company with Gandalf and Thorin.
Add reinforcements thanks to An Unexpected Party and A Chance Meeting, with Gloin, Oin and other low-mind Dwarves.

Play rings at multiple ring sites.
Play several rings at the same ring site with Thorough Search.
Rings must be played on no-MP low-mind Dwarves before tested.
It doesn't indeed matter if one is corrupted, because in all cases max item MP is achieved with 3 Dwarven Rings.
Sideboard nonetheless Free to Choose to keep Dwarven Rings as long as possible.

Play Ringlore at multiple information sites.
Play several Ringlore at the same information site with Look More Closely Latter or Dwarven Ring of Durin's Tribe.
Sideboard previously the Ringlores and Look More Closely Latter.
The first Dwarven Ring to be placed with Rumours of Ring is thus the one of Durin's Tribe.

The 4th will be complicated to play due to time limit.
Save one Smoke Rings to recycle one Ringlore.
When not confident about drawing last Ringlore, sideboard Wizard's Test to play on a Precious Gold Ring.
Normally there's no time to play Scroll of Isildur : sideboard it only if opponent plays Gollum's Fate scenario to prevent him to play it.

With a Dwarven Ring (+4 prowess), any Dwarf can withstand aa at the Worthy Hills to influence almost automatically the Petty-dwarves (+7 DI).
With Blue Mountain Dwarves influenced WR are thus met.
If one of these factions is missed, sideboard Forod and Iron Hill Dwarves.
Starting in Grey Havens, take Forod highway to move in one turn to Iron Hill Dwarf-hold !


MP overview (expected / max)

Characters : 10 / 12
Items : 18 / 37
Factions : 5 / 9
Allies : 0 / 1
Miscellanous : 0 / 0
Kill : 2 / 4
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Total : 35 / 63
Last edited by Fangorn on Thu Jan 03, 2019 10:03 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Hrum, Hoom ! Do not be hasty, that is my motto.
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Yegor
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Fangorn wrote: Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:08 pm Weathertop, Dimrill Dale, Amon Hen, Stone-circle => Reforging
You mean Ringlore.
Fangorn
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Yep indeed, I replaced.
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Darksatin
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There are 31 cards in the sideboard... :)
Fangorn
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Darksatin wrote: Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:24 pm There are 31 cards in the sideboard... :)
Indeed, there was 2 copies of Look More Closely Later
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