LOTR LCG Beginner's Corner - The Faction Guide, Part 1

[@tttopolis]

Really enjoyed this video as new player to LotR LCG. Have played TONS of Marvel Champions, 70 + plays in 1 year owning it. Many solo or 3 player, and love the theme and of LotR buy it plays vastly different. Def eye opening at looking for synergies in cards, cant wait to play and build more!!!

[@cleftboywonder]

This was an awesome vid man thanks aton

[@coolhandpaulnewman]

This is really good, thanks! I want an Ent and an Eagle deck eventually!

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

Thanks for the video. I'm a new player and only have the revised card pool. Looks like many of these archetypes are missing.

[@Coffeemaker1978]

Thank you, it was a great video 👍🏻 Keep them coming 👏🏻

[@gemesir]

I'm a big Gondor fanboy. Just started playing Heirs of Numenor so I still lack a lot of cards from the list but I think i will give it a try! Thanks for the content! :)

[@zurasworkshop5110]

You're welcome, You're in luck, as Gondor is in a very good place right now, altough without some of their strongest cards they might be a bit unstable. Still totally one of the best trait decks as it is!

[@lutzoffun2459]

Thanks for the video! As a beginner I would enjoy more content like this :)

[@zurasworkshop5110]

Hi, thanks for the feedback, it's interesting to see a lot of traction on an older video :) Seeing that there is demand for begginer stuff, you can probably expect more of that in the future!

[@lutzoffun2459]

@@zurasworkshop5110 Cool! Looking forward to it!

[@kattattack2231]

Nice overview for many of the factions. The lists next to the card images kind of blend into the map background, especially the red text, making them hard to read sometimes.

[@zurasworkshop5110]

Yeah, you're right. I will work on that in the next video.

[@Gigeno]

Thanks, I was looking for something like that!

[@Askonnito]

Great guide for beginners like me, keep it up! :D

[@williamjorge4731]

Thanks for the excellent and very helpful video, man. I'm buying the entire collection and I wish to have a deck of each of those factions to have diversity when playing multiplayer with my friends. Having the entire collection at my disposal, so you think it's possible to build each of these decks (at the same time)? Leaving all of them ready to play anytime? Of course, there will be not enough staples like Stewart of Gondor for all, but in those cases, I simply put another good card in place to complete the deck.

[@julianopiratelli7373]

Loving your videos! My prefered trait is Rohan, but im strugling real hard to build a decente deck, I already researched a lot but dont know what would be the strongest deck now for them. I know they are weak compared to others but i would like to hear your opinion on what deck you would build if you were going to use a Rohan deck. Thanks

[@zurasworkshop5110]

juliano piratelli Hi, thanks for the kind words, they're very important when developing the channel :) First of all, when it comes to Rohan, i would only look at decks released in 2020, they got some of their best cards now. The best Rohan deck at the moment has little to no actual Rohan synergy rn and while i'm not sure i can actually call it a Rohan deck, I'll start with it as it's hard to pass on. It's Leadership Eomer/Tactics Eowyn/Fastred with Forth, The Three Hunters contract. As you can't feature any allies, you will skip on 90% of the Rohan cards, but the synergy between heroes more than makes up for it. Deck variations: Most Popular and arguably the best is Seastan's: ringsdb.com/decklist/view/13174/thethreehuntersftleadershipeomer-1.0 It's very aggro oriented and peaks turn 2. It has an incredible start and gets worse the longer the game goes on. It's your job to close the game asap. My version: ringsdb.com/deck/view/224188 Originally i made my version so i could play multiplayer Saga with it (it doesn't use the One Ring), but i generally grew fond of it. It's a slower variant (no one ring, features golden belt and keen as lances), but it keeps on getting steam in the lategame rather than slow down (thanks to golden belts mostly) Eomer/Lothririel/Prince Imrahil is another very good (and again, a bit unorthodox) strategy, and is a bit closer with Rohan trait synergies than the previous deck. Those decks have a lot of ally cheating and can use sacrificial abilities a bit more comfortably. Some deck versions: By Roka: ringsdb.com/decklist/view/14830/payressourcestoplayalliesfromhandhowboring-1.0 By mathplanet: ringsdb.com/decklist/view/14371/enterandleavewearepokemontrainer-2.0 There are some other fringe variants, but i'll mention one more: the classic variant. The classic Rohan decks are about Theoden, Eomund ally and Gamling/Guthwine. Once you set up such a deck (which is not easy to do), you'll get to ready your whole army every round. I believe there are no good moderns decks with 2020 cards of this online (maybe i missed one) so i'll share mine unshared (still in optimisation process) deck instead: ringsdb.com/deck/view/234558 It uses the original combo and adds Fellowship to make it better. It features most of standard Rohan mechanics, just no non-uniques. You can use muster of rohan to get a very good turn with flipped contract and handle the board situation early, and if you find eomund, use gamling to bring him to your hand before the round ends. It's not heavily optimised but it beat Temple of Doom, and with Rohan i guess it counts for something :)

[@bushibayushi]

Great guide!

[@Coffeemaker1978]

How can Grima work in a Silvan deck 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

[@zurasworkshop5110]

Glad you asked, he's incredible in there. He helps solve the economy issues of silvans by providing both acceleration and smoothing (as his ability can be better than resource, because it can discount a card of any sphere). He's lore, and gives you access to The Tree People, one of their best cards right off the bat. Silvans can counter his threat penalty very easily, by bouncing Galadriels Handmaiden in and out. IMO, one of the best choices in the multisphere silvan.