Saruman with Spirit Rings

Qapla · Post by **Qapla** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:25 pm

The key to this deck is to get the bright gold ring, the minor rings and the ring test to the discard pile with Saruman as soon as possible. Saruman can retrieve both the ring and the test. The ring is playable at Minas Tirith or Edoras (Minion sites). There are characters in the deck with these home sites to cancel the automatic attack. With secret book you can untap the site so it is possible to get more rings out of one site.

Starting Pool
1 Cram
1 Whispers of Rings
1 Wizard's Myrmidon
1 Saruman's Ring
* Folco Boffin
* Fatty Bolger
Robin Smallburrow
* Sam Gamgee
Merry
Pippin
Bilbo
* Frodo
Bilbo goes to deck, exchange with Fatty later

Characters in Deck
1 Eomer
1 Arwen
1 Wormtongue
1 Elwen
1 Freca
1 Boromir
1 Erkenbrand
3 Fallen Saruman

Resource Deck
1 Regiment of Black Crows
1 Bright Gold Ring
1 Palantír of Orthanc
1 Sappling of the White Tree
2 Secret Book
1 Allign Palantir
1 Great Army of the North
2 Hall of Fire
2 A Chance Meeting
1 Concealment
2 Dark Tryst
2 Longbottom Leaf
2 Marvels Told
2 Sneakin'
2 Stealth
1 Voices of Malice
2 Weigh All Things to a Nicety
1 Great Patron
1 Plotting Ruin
1 The Fortress of Isen
1 Wizards Trove
30

Hazard Deck
1 1 Cave Worm
2 2 Corsairs of Umbar
1 1 Knights of the Prince
2 2 Rain Drake
2 2 Sellswords between Charters
2 2 Thief
1 0.5 Itangast Ahunt
3 0 Long Winter
2 0 Snowstorm
1 0.5 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
3 0 Doors of Night
3 0 Heart Grown Cold
1 0 Siege
1 0 The Nazgul are Abroad
1 0.5 Adunaphel
1 0.5 Uvatha the Horseman
2 0 An Unexpected Outpost
1 0.5 Mouth of Sauron
30 12.5

Sideboard
2 Beorning Skin Changers
1 In the Heart of his Realm
1 Rolled Down to the Sea
1 Snowstorm
2 Drowning Seas
1 Bright Gold Ring
2 Magic Ring of Lies
1 Magic Ring of Savagery
2 Minor Ring
2 The Oracles Ring
1 The Warding Ring
1 Promptings of Wisdom
1 The White Tree
1 Voices of Malice
2 Withdrawn to Mordor
1 Wizards Test
1 A Strident Spawn
2 Greater Half-orcs
3 Half-orcs
1 Saruman's Machinery
1 The White Hand
30

Bandobras Took · Post by **Bandobras Took** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:35 pm

Suggestions:

Saruman will not get full MPs for the Warding Ring without Blind to All Else because the Warding Ring is an Armor item.  It may be better to try for one of the Dwarven Rings instead.

Regiment will make your company Overt; that may make the auto-attacks at Minas Tirith, etc. too tough to handle.  Is there a separate party that gets Regiment and runs back to Isengard?

Qapla · Post by **Qapla** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:38 pm

Thank you for the advise.

Since I do not have a lot of opportunity to score an ally it will have to be the regiment. I definitly do not want to be overt and face both of the automatic attacks so it will be a bit tricky.
Lindion the oronin is also in the same region but I think I cannot play a secret book as minor item at a hero site.

The third spirit ring will be worth one point, but I think I will be very lucky to manage three. I'll be satisfied if I manage two spirit rings and two magic rings.

Leon · Post by **Leon** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:59 pm

Noble Steed is an option for an ally in Rohan perhaps.

Qapla · Post by **Qapla** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:59 am

The Noble Steed is not an option because I have to use minion sites for border, free and havens.

I tried the deck in a small tournament but it was a bit too complicated to work well. Too easy to disrupt.

_nauku_ · Post by **_nauku_** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:06 pm

How about using Here, there or yonder for the ally?

Fangorn · Post by **Fangorn** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:56 pm

What about playing Noble Steed at Amon Hen ?

Leon · Post by **Leon** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:59 pm

Amon Hen was also what I was thinking, I should have said that