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Deck "Ithilien Blade"

Deck "Ithilien Blade" - 71 Cards (extended format)	show standard format

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The Ithilien Blade.

Well...pretty straightforward deck. Use Aragorn's Bow to run up the threat count, and then use Madril to run up the site number, and then anything that gets by the Ithilien Blade and Aragorn's Bow gets dropped in the skirmish phase thanks to Arrows Thick in the Air and Gondorian Ranger.

Sauron Discarding Corruption.

Also straightforward. Desperate Defense of the Ring, Thin and Stretched, and Verily I Come add burdens and discard cards. That's where the beauty of Trollshaw forest comes in. With Verily I Come, it would be so tempting to draw a card after playing that possession, but as soon as you do, add a burden or more depending on if you have The Ring is Mine! in your hand.

Desperate Measures discards cards, as does Tower Lieutenant. Desperate Defense of the Ring forces your opponent to choose between running out of cards or adding burdens. Either way, you corrupt them, whether by lowering the Ring-Bearer's resistance to 0, or by running the deck out and using The Irresistible Shadow.

Oh, and for a couple more burdens, Orc Officer/Siege Troop Combo at Slag Mounds will really run up the burden count.

Section: Adventure deck (9 cards)
1	x	Courtyard Parapet (BL)
		Number: 188 Rarity: U Type: Site
1	x	Emyn Muil (BR)
		Number: 187 Rarity: S Type: Site
1	x	Helm's Gate (Shadows)
		Number: 245 Rarity: S Type: Site
1	x	Moria Stairway (Shadows)
		Number: 248 Rarity: S Type: Site
1	x	Neekerbreekers' Bog (Shadows)
		Number: 249 Rarity: S Type: Site
1	x	Pelennor Flat (Shadows)
		Number: 254 Rarity: S Type: Site
1	x	Slag Mounds (Shadows)
		Number: 258 Rarity: S Type: Site
1	x	Trollshaw Forest (Shadows)
		Number: 260 Rarity: S Type: Site
1	x	Window on the West (Shadows)
		Number: 265 Rarity: S Type: Site

Section: Draw deck (56 cards)
2	x	Aragorn's Bow, Ranger's Longbow (TH)
		Number: 56 Rarity: R Type: Possession Race/Class: Ranged Weapon Twilight Cost: 1 Culture: Gondor	Card text: Bearer must be Aragorn. He is an archer. Archery: Add a threat to wound a minion with the lowest strength.
4	x	Arrows Thick in the Air (TTT)
		Number: 110 Rarity: U Strength: Vitality: Type: Gondor Event Twilight Cost: 3 Culture: Gondor Signet/Site/Resistance:	Card text: Archery or Skirmish: Exert 2 Ring-bound Men to wound each roaming minion.
2	x	Citadel Of Minas Tirith (ROTEL)
		Number: 40 Rarity: R Strength: 0 Vitality: 0 Type: Condition Twilight Cost: 1 Culture: Gondor	Card text: Plays to your support area. You may heal a [Gondor] companion at the end of each turn during which no companion or ally lost a skirmish.
4	x	Desperate Defense of the Ring (FOTR)
		Number: 244 Rarity: R Strength: 0 Vitality: 0 Type: Condition Twilight Cost: 1 Culture: Sauron	Card text: "To play, exert a (Sauron) Orc. Plays on a companion. Each time bearer is assigned to a skirmish, the Free Peoples player chooses to either discard 3 cards from hand or add a burden."
2	x	Desperate Measures (FOTR)
		Number: 245 Rarity: R Strength: 0 Vitality: 0 Type: Event Twilight Cost: 2 Culture: Sauron	Card text: Maneuver: Spot a (Sauron) Orc and remove a burden to make the Free Peoples player discard top 5 cards from his draw deck.
1	x	Faramir’s Bow (TTT)
		Number: 118 Rarity: R Strength: Vitality: Type: Gondor Possession Race/Class: Ranged Weapon Twilight Cost: 1 Culture: Gondor Signet/Site/Resistance:	Card text: Bearer must be Faramir. He is an archer. Skirmish: If Faramir is skirmishing a Man or a roaming minion, exert Faramir to wound that minion.
4	x	Gorgoroth Stormer (SofG)
		Number: 101 Rarity: C Type: Minion Culture: Sauron
2	x	Houses of Healing (Shadows)
		Number: 61 Rarity: U Type: Condition Culture: Gondor
2	x	Invigorated (BR)
		Number: 51 Rarity: U Type: Condition Culture: Gondor
4	x	Ithilien Blade (TH)
		Number: 62 Rarity: C Strength: +2 Type: Possession Race/Class: Hand Weapon Twilight Cost: 1 Culture: Gondor	Card text: Bearer must be a [Gondor] Man. While you can spot a roaming minion, bearer is strength +1. Maneuver: Exert bearer twice to discard a roaming minion.
4	x	Orc Officer (TROTK)
		Number: 302 Rarity: U Type: Minion Culture: Sauron
1	x	Ring of Barahir (EOF)
		Number: 55 Rarity: R Type: Artifact Culture: Gondor
2	x	Second Level (TROTK)
		Number: 118 Rarity: C Type: Condition Culture: Gondor
4	x	Siege Troop (SofG)
		Number: 106 Rarity: C Type: Minion Culture: Sauron
2	x	Sixth Level (SofG)
		Number: 44 Rarity: U Type: Condition Culture: Gondor
2	x	The Irresistible Shadow (FOTR)
		Number: 252 Rarity: R Strength: 0 Vitality: 0 Type: Condition Twilight Cost: 0 Culture: Sauron	Card text: "To play, exert a (Sauron) Orc. Plays to your support area. If you can spot 5 burdens and the Free Peoples player has no cards in his or her draw deck, the Ring-bearer is corrupted."
4	x	The Ring is Mine! (MD)
		Number: 97 Rarity: U Type: Event Culture: Sauron
2	x	Thin and Stretched (FOTR)
		Number: 279 Rarity: R Strength: 0 Vitality: 0 Type: Condition Twilight Cost: 0 Culture: Sauron	Card text: "To play, exert a (Sauron) Orc. Plays on the Ring-bearer. Add a burden at the end of each turn during which bearer was not assigned to a skirmish (and another companion was)."
3	x	Tower Lieutenant (FOTR)
		Number: 280 Rarity: U Strength: 10 Vitality: 3 Type: Minion Race/Class: Orc Twilight Cost: 4 Culture: Sauron Signet/Site/Resistance: 6	Card text: "Each time this minion wins a skirmish, the Free Peoples player discards 2 cards at random from hand. "
1	x	Verily I Come (MofM)
		Number: 94 Rarity: R Strength: 0 Vitality: 0 Type: Condition Twilight Cost: 0 Culture: Sauron	Card text: "To play, exert a (Sauron) Orc. Plays on the Ring-bearer. Each time the Free Peoples player draws a card (or takes a card into hand) during the fellowship phase, add a burden."
4	x	What Are They? (FOTR)
		Number: 119 Rarity: C Strength: 0 Vitality: 0 Type: Event Twilight Cost: 1 Culture: Gondor	Card text: Maneuver: Spot a ranger to discard a roaming minion.

Section: Starting Fellowship (6 cards)
1	x	Aragorn, Strider (WRAnth)
		Number: 11R54 Rarity: R Type: Companion Culture: Gondor
1	x	Boromir, Bearer of Council (Refl.)
		Number: 9R+31 Rarity: R+ Type: Companion Culture: Gondor
1	x	Faramir, Captain of Gondor (Countdown Collection) (Promo)
		Number: 35 Rarity: P Type: Companion Culture: Gondor
1	x	Gondorian Ranger (TTT)
		Number: 122 Rarity: C Strength: 5 Vitality: 3 Type: Gondor Companion Race/Class: Man Twilight Cost: 2 Culture: Gondor Signet/Site/Resistance:	Card text: Ring-bound. Ranger. The site number of each minion assigned to skirmish a Ring-bound Man is +2.
1	x	Madril, Defender of Osgiliath (TH)
		Number: 64 Rarity: R Strength: 5 Vitality: 3 Type: Companion Race/Class: Man Twilight Cost: 2 Culture: Gondor Signet/Site/Resistance: 6	Card text: Ranger. Hunter 1. While you can spot 2 [Gondor] rangers, Madril is twilight cost -2. At the start of the maneuver phase, each minion is site number +1 for each threat you can spot until the start of the regroup phase.
1	x	The One Ring, The Ring of Rings (WRAnth)
		Number: 11R1 Rarity: R Type: The One Ring

Deck Statistics

Distribution by Culture
-	10	14 %
Gondor	31	44 %
Sauron	30	42 %


Distribution by Race/Class
-	59	83 %
Hand Weapon	4	6 %
Man	2	3 %
Orc	3	4 %
Ranged Weapon	3	4 %


Distribution by Rarity
C	19	27 %
P	1	1 %
R	20	28 %
R+	1	1 %
S	8	11 %
U	22	31 %


Distribution by Type
Artifact	1	1 %
Companion	4	6 %
Condition	19	27 %
Event	10	14 %
Gondor Companion	1	1 %
Gondor Event	4	6 %
Gondor Possession	1	1 %
Minion	15	21 %
Possession	6	8 %
Site	9	13 %
The One Ring	1	1 %

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