Hey! You! Over Here! 1.0

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This deck is pretty much the ultimate cheese against anything that has a bunch of enemies that are not immune to player card effects. You can basically take all the enemies that come out in round 1 using The Hammer-stroke to take the setup and 1st turn enemies, drawing a ton of cards with Pippin and then playing a Hobbit-sense or Out of Sight every turn to make them not attack. A great benefit of doing this is that you also don't have to deal with any nasty shadow effects.

In testing i had an ~80% chance of success on the first turn of getting the combo off. It was originally designed to deal with the 12 enemies in Massing at Osgiliath. Tell your friends to bring range attack to get some enemies back into the encounter deck, questing, or location shenanigans due to the lack of enemies cycling.

The ideal first hand is Song of Battle, Good Meal, The Hammer-stroke, Hobbit-sense as this lets you get the combo off immediately. To help get you there this deck is just filled with card draw. Love of Tales will help you get some resources to play things like Mithrandir's Advice and Scroll of Isildur to recur Mithrandir's Advice or Drinking Song.

Getting Song of Travel on early can be great too (especially if you have Love of Tales) as then you can use Nob's discount of 1 to play Spare Pipe to hunt for more card draw or an event for the combo if you are missing that piece.

Song of Eärendil and Fireside Song were added to help with later game scaling a little bit as you will eventually be questing for a bunch with Pippin and since you can use Will of the West to get your discard back and draw through it so fast Hobbit-sense is sufficient to help keep you threat down.

Super fun to pilot, can have a little bit of a long first planning but then things go quickly.

Warden of Healing is in the sideboard because i had to bring it in to tech against quests like Blood on the Isen where lots of damage was going out in place of the Deep Knowledge since threat is a huge problem there. This hurt the efficiency of the 1st turn combo slightly but it was still pretty achievable.

Hope you enjoy!