Starter - The Black Gate
Format: King Standard
Author: Phallen
Ring-bearer: Frodo, Reluctant Adventurer
Ring: The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles
Adventure deck:
Sleeping Quarters
King's Tent
Hall of the Kings
Anduin Banks
Pelennor Flat
Minas Tirith First Circle
Pelennor Grassland
Northern Ithilien
Slag Mounds
Free Peoples Draw Deck:
1x Smeagol, Slinker
1x Sam, Nice Sensible Hobbit
1x Bounder
1x Rosie Cotton, Hobbiton Lass
3x Brace of Coneys
2x Frodo's Cloak
2x Hobbit Sword
3x Sting, Baggins Heirloom
4x Don't Follow the Lights
3x Not Listening
2x Dagger Strike
1x Seven We Had
2x Don't Look at Them
4x A Promise
2x Nice Imitation
3x The Shire Countryside
Shadow Draw Deck:
1x Gollum, Stinker
2x Easterling Army
4x Easterling Axeman
3x Easterling Captain
2x Easterling Footman
3x Easterling Guard
4x Easterling Lieutenant
1x Easterling Regiment
2x Easterling Skirmisher
2x Easterling Polearm
4x Captured by the Ring
1x Discovered
1x Evil-smelling Fens
2x Heavy Burden
3x Small Hope
Notes
Smeagol, Frodo, and Sam run into some Easterlings at The Black Gate.
Free Peoples: (Starting Sam and Smeagol)
This setup always tends to do well in my experience, but often at the expense of moving slowly. Combos are fun though. 2 extra starting Fellowship twilight to use bolstering the deck, I think Ranger of Ithilien would probably do best -- 8 strength when it's needed at the start, to be killed off when it's not to choke a bit better. Less thematic though so I'm trying this first. Dagger Strike is in for the damage bonus when it's needed, especially to kill a fierce minion. The extra strength doesn't hurt though.
Bounder doesn't stack with Sam
Nice Imitation is there for wounding (prioritize taking burdens in those cases when you can)
Shadow:
The only corruption Shadow, which I tried to dampen slightly by relying more on Gollum than I normally would, the aim there is to give Ents and Rohan in particular a fair shot. The site path alone can add 5+ burdens though, so it won't take much to put FPs in danger.