Pipeweed - Twilight

[MuadDib85]

This is my favourite movie block deck. (I really like the way Zorbec's does the layout for these decklists). As a long time sda builder, I must say Zorbec's is by far superior and is excellent that it's so easily linked to gccg (promos and stuff).


Ring-bearer   0P27   • Frodo, Resolute Hobbit

The One Ring   4R1   • The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles

Adventure Deck
1   7U334   Steps of Edoras
2   7U336   Rohirrim Camp
3   7U339   Hall of the Kings
4   7U342   Osgiliath Fallen
5   7U344   City Gates
6   7U352   Minas Tirith Third Circle
7   8U120   Osgiliath Channel
8   7U358   Morgulduin
9   7U360   Dagorlad

Free Peoples Draw Deck

1x   1R302   • Merry, Friend to Sam Start
1x   5R29   • Smeagol, Slinker Start
2x   3U107   • Frodo's Pipe
1x   1C299   Hobbit Sword
3x   1C300   Longbottom Leaf
4x   1C305   Old Toby
1x   5R116   • Sting, Baggins Heirloom
2x   1U292   • The Gaffer's Pipe
1x   10U116   • The Tale of the Great Ring
1x   10R104   Birthday Present
2x   10C112   Nine-fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom
4x   2P122   • Gandalf, The Grey Pilgrim
2x   1U74   • Gandalf's Pipe
1x   1R75   • Glamdring
1x   2R22   • Gandalf's Staff
4x   3R113   The Shire Countryside
2x   1U91   • Aragorn's Pipe
1x   7U98   Gondorian Sword
1x   0P16   • Faramir, Son of Denethor Start

Free Peoples Total   35

Shadow Draw Deck

1x   2R75   • Bill Ferny, Swarthy Sneering Fellow
4x   0P37   • The Witch-king, Lord of the Nazgul
2x   2U83   • Ulaire Enquea, Ringwraith in Twilight
2x   1U231   • Ulaire Enquea, Lieutenant of Morgul
3x   0P43   • Ulaire Nelya, Ringwraith in Twilight
1x   3U86   • Ulaire Otsea, Ringwraith in Twilight
1x   1U235   • Ulaire Ostea, Lieutenant of Morgul
1x   1U232   • Ulaire Lemenya, Lieutenant of Morgul
3x   1U207   Black Breath
4x   1U209   Blade Tip
2x   2R77   His Terrible Servants
4x   6U83   Fell Beast
1x   0P31   • The Pale Blade
1x   1R216   Morgul Blade
4x   1R217   Morgul Gates
1x   0P54   • Sauron, The Lord of the Rings

Shadow Total   35

[ket_the_jet]

I just decided to respond to some of these posts around the forums because the only thing really going on right now is Osama reactions.

You know I love this deck...but what happened to that copy of Mind and Body? I thought it was pretty badass that you used that card. I do like the bonus Sauron addition.

This is just a preference, but I prefer Sword of Gondor and even Knight's Spear over Gondorian Sword.
-wtk

[MuadDib85]

Mind and Body as cool as it is, is not consistant enough. Only once have I ever killed extra companions with it, so I gave that spot to Sauron.

You might also notice the lack of Faramir, Wizard's Pupil. Faramir, Son of Denethor is probably better, although the ability to repeat WP's text with the whole skirmish healing thing can make Merry a beast.

The sword is a preference thing, I went for the extra cycling.

[ket_the_jet]

I prefer Faramir, Son of Denethor to Wizard's Pupil in this deck. Sometimes there will just be that particularly tough minion with the great game text and it might just be too important to get around that.

Plus, Wizard's Pupil exerting a lot uses more of the weeds.

I had never thought about it until now, but do you think a copy of Boromir, Son of Denethor might be a good card to toss in the draw deck just in case you really need him? I am just imagining using Gandalf, Greyhame now and maybe having a Radagast, Boromir, Son of Denethor, and maybe an Aragorn, Ranger of the North for those "just in case" situations.
-wtk

[MuadDib85]

Good ideas, but would change the deck too much. All card slots here are pretty important. This is my favourite deck for a reason, it kicks #$&*@!! Against certain shadows like Wounding/Archery (which is popular on gccg) it is awesome. Removing 4x burdens for 16x heals in the fellowship phase.. Nice.

A few people have been like: 'You can't do that'.

[Gil-Estel]

Like it, but then again, I like any good deck that uses pipeweed. If it wasn't for those stupid corsairs it would have been all over the place. I know you keep your decks tight the way they are, but I must say I would love that card if smeagol wins, add burden, remove minion. That is so awesome, especially when Morcs are huge. Beat the orc, discard the witchking.....

[FM]

IS Sauron that useful? I also don't like Twilight Otsea and Lemenya that much, as well as the singleton Ferny, I think by losing the trio (and possibly Sauron), you could add in It Wants to be Found for quicker burden piling. You could also consider losing a Fell Beast and 1 twilight Enquea for a pair of Stricken Dumb, or at least a Helpless and a Tower Assassin, or a Helpless and a The Ring Draws Them (I think it's this one, from RotRL, that adds twilight to the pool based on the number of burdens...).

[MuadDib85]

IS Sauron that useful? I also don't like Twilight Otsea and Lemenya that much, as well as the singleton Ferny, I think by losing the trio (and possibly Sauron), you could add in It Wants to be Found for quicker burden piling. You could also consider losing a Fell Beast and 1 twilight Enquea for a pair of Stricken Dumb, or at least a Helpless and a Tower Assassin, or a Helpless and a The Ring Draws Them (I think it's this one, from RotRL, that adds twilight to the pool based on the number of burdens...).

I think Stricken Dumb is a terrible card and wouldn't use it any deck. It Wants to be Found could be a good idea, but I do like to keep the ammount of shadow events down in most decks though and I'm already running 4x Morgul Gates here. At 35 cards and only 16 minions, I don't think removing minions for more support is a very good idea.

[Gerontius]

Nice freeps. I've been playing with a similar set up for a while but I never thought to add Shire Countryside to the mix. If you want to focus on Merry a little more, Depart Silently and Escape are both useful. I would also try to fit in Coat of Mail so Faramir can take the larger minions without Merry's help. Which reminds me, I would still use Wizard's Pupil over Son of Denethor, just because it gives you more options. That's just preference I guess. Lastly, I'm not sure that Birthday Present is entirely necessary- if you planned carefully you should have enough burdens in the fellowship phase anyways, and at least in my meta recurring NfFatRD isn't helpful.
And the shadow doesn't look like any deck I've ever used before, so I'll just leave it.