The Third Age GBA (Good)

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Christian_Medic 973

Christian_Medic has a newer deck inspired by this one: Scouring Mordor

Christian_Medic has a newer deck inspired by this one: The Third Age GBA (3 Hunters THE ONE DECK!)

My Three Hunters deck using my favourite members of the fellowship of the ring. I just finished taking this deck through the saga campaign true solo and it performed excellently, only struggling with the last 4 quests of the campaign (Pelennor Fields was exceptionally hard and why Will of the West is in the sideboard).

Mulligan for as many restricted attachments as you can get, though my favourite is getting Gandalf's Staff, Gondorian Shield, War Axe, or Raiment of War + Mighty Warrior. Some other really useful cards at the start are Elven-Light, Light of Valinor, Magic Ring or Wizard Pipe.

The heroes work really well together and since you can't use any of the powerful Gandalf allies, you may as well have the powerful Gandalf hero to help with drawing your deck quicker. Legolas with his Light of Valinor and Elven-Light also help with the action advantage and just that alone (along with Boromir's readying ability) means you will always be questing with Three ready heroes before the rest of the readying attachments. Boromir is an absolute titan again with this contract. With Captain of Gondor, two Raiments of War and a Golden Belt for example he will have a Willpower of 5, Attack of 6, and defense of 5, along with 9 hitpoints to handle about any threat. Or turn him into an amazing defender with all the readying attachments (if you play with errata) and Livery of the Tower + Raiment of War + Gondorian Shield.

As well you have the option to put Steward of Gondor and Blood of Numenor/Gondorian Fire on the Hero of your choice.

The other nice aspect of these restricted items is for the most part they can go on anyone, so if you are playing any of the Sagas you have lots of options to throw on the fellowship or baggins hero.

Sideboard is for non-saga you can throw The One Ring on Gandalf or Boromir and it's associated attachments, as well as Hero saving (for quests that discard characters) , condition removal for the nasty condition quests, Test of Will for similar game-ending Treachery quests, and Waters of Nimrodel + another Vigilant Guard for Rhosgabel.

Hope you enjoyed the deck/write up!

This deck name/theme is a tribute to the old Game Boy Advance Videogame The Third Age, and the three characters I used the most for that game in the good campaign.

5 comments

Apr 11, 2020 Denison 618

I hadn't considered that all of the sphere related items could be valid targets for Gandalf. Well done!

Apr 12, 2020 Christian_Medic 973

Thank you, it works well, and yep either burning brand, War Axes, or Silver Circlet you can go offensive, defensive or quester with the Wizard to fit whatever the quest calls for.

Apr 12, 2020 Denison 618

How many rounds does it usually take you to flip the contract?

Apr 12, 2020 Alonewolf87 1908

Instead of the The Galadhrim's Greeting what would you think about Well Warned? How hard it is to get Silver Circlet or War Axe on Gandalf with only 2 copies of the Wizard Pipe?

Apr 13, 2020 Christian_Medic 973

I was playing saga so there is the extra hero but on average usually turn 3, went down to turn 2 with valiant Warrior boon on Gandalf so I could get two raiments of War out early. Everything works on pretty much any hero which really helps. Also Legolas + Gandalf + Fellowship member are a decent questing start and Boromir with a Raiment or Gondorian Shield kept me protected until I was fully up and running.

And Alonewolf that's not a bad idea with the well-warned card. It's definitely the cheaper option but I found the Galadhrim is just more Threat reduction overall which between Boromir and the Magic Ring I had a decent amount of Threat to combat and this contract really leaves you with a lot of extra resources.

And it wasn't very hard at all since the rule for me playing this deck is anytime I can play a card on someone I go for whatever works for the most attachments played. Before I got Wizard pipe in play I could play the top card of the deck on Gandalf, or use his staff or Elven light or both to keep drawing those cards until it was one that I could play. And with two copies I usually ended up with a pipe fairly early on most games.