Oooooold School!
Start:
Bilbo
Frodo
Fatty Bolger
Sam Gamgee
2 Cram
Characters in Deck:
3 Radagast
Beorn (?)
Resources:
3 Stealth
3 Concealment
3 Halfling Strength
2 Flatter a Foe
1 Token of Goodwill
3 Promptings of Wisdom
3 Smoke Rings
2 Longbottom Leaf
3 Precious Gold Ring
1 Fair Gold Ring
3 Leaf-Brooch
2 Binding Ring (or some minor item ring)
1 Scroll of Isildur
Hazards:
Whatever you like, but make it fast.
Oh, and be sure to include 3 Tookish Blood for those early Calls of Home.
Key Sideboard Cards:
3 Wizard’s Test
1 The One Ring
1 Ash Mountains
1 A Friend or Three
1 Lucky Search
1 Escape
1 Master of Esgaroth
1 Cracks of Doom
1 Gandalf
Play Tips:
Low HL is key. If your opponent is fool enough to halve the limit to sb, he only gets one hazard per turn, which means he won’t exhaust fast enough.
The best movement plans go like this:
First three turns: some mix of Moria, Lorien, and Bandit Lair (for Token).
Turn four: Cirith Ungol or Minas Morgul
Turn five: Dunk
Second-bests use Dead Marshes for the Scroll and run through Nurn to get to Mt Doom.
Third-bests use Master of Esgaroth off the Easterling Camp too. Letting your opponent draw is bad bad bad.
Get Promptings on Sam as soon as you can! Skin-Changers suckzorz.
Consider dropping a cram for a Healing Herbs. But cram is probably better.