Isengard 1.0

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As Cold as Stone and Bare as Bone

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Jul 07, 2023 BloodVigilante 105

Very cool idea to use Mirlonde with these two! The only thing I would add would be at least two Favor of the Valar to assist with all of the Doomed effects from Saruman, because I have found in my games that even with his staff threat can really tick up quickly, especially with Gríma.

Jul 07, 2023 BloodVigilante 105

Also Resourceful is a slightly weird include. I would replace the three copies of it with Keys of Orthanc, which goes great with Gríma.

Jul 07, 2023 frozen 172

Keys of Orthanc would be a great pick, and it might be enough to not need Resourceful. I would assume Resourceful is included as a combo with Scroll of Isildur and Bartering to play it for only 1 cost.

As for me, I know the isengard allies aren't great, but it saddens me that a deck called "Isengard 1.0" doesn't include even 1 Isengard Messenger for example.

Jul 14, 2023 sean.hyer 15

I tried the deck out, and it's kind of bad. I'm going to build a 1-player deck where I don't put as much work into mitigating the DOOM. That'll let me run stuff like Soldier of Isengard which looks bad but fun.

Does anyone know if Gríma and Steward of Orthanc stack in the right way that both can be canceled by Saruman's Staff? If it's 2 separate instances of Doomed 1, the staff can only cancel 1 effect, but if it's one Doomed 2 it can get both.

Jul 14, 2023 kjeld 641

@BloodVigilante Favor of the Valar unfortunately does not work well with Saruman's built-in limit on threat reduction.