Aragorn’s Title Tower #ALEP 1.0

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• 1.0

Note: This deck uses community-made cards from the A Long-Extended Party expansions.

Look, no shade intended to the artist, but Aragorn’s card looks emaciated. Time to get him fed and beefed up! We will use and abuse his titles, power, and privilege to boost stats, boost allies, and run roughshod through quests and enemies alike. Along for the thematic ride, we have support from the Dúnedan and the Noldor, who provide plenty of solid stats to get us through tricky situations.

Since there are lots of pieces required to make this deck sing, it can be slow to get going. Beravor and Master of the Forge are here to help us find the cards we need. Glorfindel is along for the ride to keep our starting threat low and give time to build up our board state.

Our win condition is two-fold: go tall on Aragorn and wide on allies, using the ever-reliable Steward of Gondor and Aragorn’s static sphere ability to put our expensive pieces into play. There are no Event cards to worry about here, so focus your decisions on maximizing Title usage.

How to use this deck:

• Setup: Grab Elessar from your collection and attach to Aragorn. You’ll start with the sphere, as well as the 4 Titles required for Andúril. Mulligan for Steward of Gondor and Light of Valinor, although Master of the Forge will do in a pinch.
• Early Game: Focus on getting your resource and card draw engines up and running. If the scenario gives some room to turtle, you can start building tall to get additional and spheres and stat boosters. However, Titles aren’t much use until you have some targets to use them on, so you may opt to play a few allies, especially if you need to go hard out of the gate.
• Allies: Master of the Forge will help fetch all of your tools and toys. Try to get him out early to maximize utilization. Galadriel is included primarily for thematic reasons, but she can also cheat out key attachments, as well as provide a temporary boost. Elrond provides some healing and condition removal, which is a weakness of this deck. Faramir is a great target for The Renewer, allowing him to both quest AND use his ability, a nice 3 swing. Grey Companion, Ranger of Cardolan, and Guardian of Rivendell are the core of your army, and since they are all spheres, they can help with resource smoothing. Northern Tracker and Sarn Ford Sentry can be swapped with sideboard allies depending on the scenario.
• Attachments: Outside of Unexpected Courage on Beravor and Light of Valinor on Glorfindel, your attachments should all be played on Aragorn. Key targets are Andúril and Sword that was Broken to boost Aragorn and his allies respectively. Protector of Lórien can provide crucial or boosts in a pinch. This deck is all about Titles, and you can get some great action advantage out of them. Estel gives you a chance to swap out duplicate attachments for more useful cards, Elessar to boost or ready your key defenders, and The Renewer to provide some ally healing or readying. Once you get Elendilmir, you can get extra the uses and extra advantage!
• Sideboard: If you’re facing a combat-heavy quest, swap out Beregond for Glorfindel, and sub in Bree-land Protector and Roving Herbmaster for shadow cancellation and on-demand healing (works beautifully with Beregond’s reduction ability).

This is a fun deck that covers many bases. It’s not a “One Deck” but has been successful when stress tested against a number of FFG and ALeP scenarios. I’ve had success using it in true solo and multiplayer formats.

Enjoy the Return of the King!