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Sfrug 370
"The amazing thing about a dancing bear is not how well it dances, but that it dances at all."
This is a really janky, only marginally effective-deck designed, for no particular reason, to get the Harbor Master up to truly ludicrous levels of defense.
Mulligan for Harbor Master, of course. Then look for the Steward of Gondor, with Beravor's help. If you're lucky you'll get them both on round one. Play the steward on Bifur with Denethor's extra cash, get two resources, and then play the harbor master. Have Denethor give his last remaining resource to Bifur (who is now from Gondor), and have Bifur suck Beravor's resource down with his ability. The Harbor Master will now be at 2 for this round, and will be at 3 if you repeat this (Steward, Denethor gives, Bifur takes from Beravor) every round.
But they fun's just beginning.
Get out your Errand-riders: they can swap resources around, adding up to 3 more each round.
You're going to have a lot of extra resources, so why not splurge on a Resourceful or three? Sure, they're financially dubious, but each one will get you yet another each round. Hell, if you catch a first-round Sneaked Gandalf, you could even get one into play in secrecy.
Envoy of Pelargir, Parting Gifts and Squire of the Citadel are for one-time transfers before the rest of this is set up.
Shadows are a bitch. Fortunately the Harbor Master is eligible for a A Burning Brand.
Of course these bonuses apply to all the Harbor Masters you happen to have out. So it could be up to three of them!
Once Bifur has Narvi's Belt, he can not only pay for the cards (as he ought, hogging all the cash) but he can also put on an Elven Mail (Harbor Master is Noldor so eligible) and this can give him sentinel so they can defend for other people. With Narvi's belt you can also attach a Wild Stallion to boost him yet again (or instead use Arwen Undómiel, although she's unique, so only one of her). And a Squire's Helm might be useful, who knows.
This all will take time to assemble, but Daeron's Runes, Drinking Song and Peace, and Thought are there to help Beravor put it together.
Once it's all set up, two Harbor Master should be up to at least 6 (the "basic three" you hope to have from round two, and three more from some combination of Errand Riders and Resourcefuls); in theory that could be up to 9 for three masters, with no shadows, every round, with occasional boosts from the one-time hits up to ten. And two of them might be sentinel, and some might have extra hit points.
Still not a great deck, because it can't do much else: little questing, no attack, and the sentinel parts of the defense take too long to set up for the deck to earn it's keep in encounter cards added.
But still... look at that Harbor Master dance! (Or is it "look at that bear defend"?)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
Jul 15, 2023It has been ruled that "moving" resources does not count as "adding" resources for Harbor master's ability. So Denethor, Errand-rider, Parting Gifts etc do not give him any defense (though Bifur actially does because of how it is worded). This ruling has been the bane of many cool Harbor master deck ideas sadly as there is little hope of him consistently being in decent values. |
Jul 15, 2023
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Jul 15, 2023I still appreciate the creativity! For the record I'm a little disappointed for you as well. |
Nice to see new decks revisit older cards that didn’t receive much love at the time.