u/dpollere

1. Dune War for Arrakis (never played): $100

2. Kinfire Chronicles: $120

3. Skyteam + expansion: $25

4. White Castle: $25

5. Viticulture EE + Tuscany + Moors + really nice insert + metal Lira: $120

6. Dinosaur island + Totally Liquid kickstarter Edition + metal coins + awesome colorful insert: $80

7. Alice is missing: $15

8. Calico: $25

9. Pax Pamir 2ed + metal coins: $70

10. LOTR LCG: Ered Mithrin Campaign: $150

11. Ito Rainbow (Japanese, from Japan!): $10

12. Dice Forge: $35

I’m just getting into this game more and have all the revised core content. I’m just struggling with how to best build a deck… like, logistically.

I’m used to Arkham Horror. I use the app. I search for traits and keywords/text. Balance the various card types and resource costs. Decide if I have enough resource generation, card draw, assets, etc for what the deck is trying to do. And gut check against what other players have built and the campaign I’m playing (“do I have enough evade for TFA?”). Then maybe I run the deck through a scenario for weakspots — but I usually understand if it’s going to work or not when it’s built.

In LOTR LCG, I really struggle. The RingsDB app is useful, but doesn’t seem to have the same searching functionality as ArkhamDB (and tends to delete my new decks). I scan through the entire collection a lot when building. And deck size is SO big in this game. Deck consistency is hard, and it’s tough to gauge when I have too much or too little of a certain “thing” (resource gen, allies or attachments that do similar things, card draw, etc).

Then there’s tracking resource gen across spheres, tracking synergies with THREE heroes, threat problems that can happen… It’s tough!

Then after all that, the quests might demand totally different things. So do I just ram right into it, see what happens and make adjustments? Or do I review the quest in advance and build for it? But do I rebuild for every quest? Or keep my collection near by and tweak? If a hero dies in a campaign, do we stop for the night so we can totally rebuild our engines? Or always just rerun the quest? Hmm…

I really am enjoying the game so far! I just want to figure out how to better approach deck building.

Any advice is much appreciated!!

EDIT: my one really good deck so far was Noldor/erestor. It was great. All the card draw and discarding made my deck feel like it was really working for me vs against me.