Gandalf's Mining Company (MD - Dwarves Alternative) 1.0

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Preferred Player Count: 1-4

Rating: .5

Premise

My favourite mining deck in the game. It is maybe my Dwarf deck with the highest swarm potential, usually being able to play 4-5+ allies during the first round due to acceleration cards like Legacy of Númenor, Hidden Cache, Steward of Gondor, Zigil Miner and (of course) A Very Good Tale. Dáin Ironfoot boosts your mining army while Gandalf controls your mining triggers with Nori making the whole thing feasible from a threat-perspective.

How To Play

Look for an opening hand that leads to you exploding as soon as possible. Quantifying what a hand like that looks is a bit difficult, it takes a few playthroughs with the deck to get a good feeling for what you need. Some form of either Legacy of Númenor or way to trigger Hidden Cache's ability for 2 resources is usually a part of it though. After playing through your deck (which happens rather quickly), you should ensure to still have Will of the West available to do the whole thing again.

Considerations

Double Back is a no-brainer as an include in higher player counts (I would look to remove something like Hardy Leadership). Messenger of the King with Bilbo Baggins is a nice alternative to Nori, Shadowfax is very useful for 2+-player-games, Dwarven Tomb and Erebor Guard just missed out on maing the card but are certainly useful.

Enjoy!!!