I chose to use reds high velocity card draw, like Cathartic Reunion and Faithless Looting, as my main value pieces for this reason
Gondor companions that need to spot relatively many Men, like Denethor, Lord of Minas Tirith (10R28) and Elendil, The Tall (9R+32) Versions of the One Ring that help with his vitality or resistance, like The One Ring, Answer To All Riddles (4R1) , The One Ring, The Ring of Doom (15R1) , or The One Ring, The Ring of Rings (11R1) The Gondor artifact substrategy, with Scroll of Isildur (9R36) to boost his resistance and Sapling of the White Tree (9R35) to prevent wounds Strong Versus...[edit] Shadow strategies that rely on overwhelming the ring-bearer in a single skirmish, especially in the early-game Shadow cards that spot Shire companions or Hobbits, on the assumption that the ring-bearer is one Cards that spot many Free Peoples cultures, such as Grma, Chief Counselor (5R51) Shadow minions or conditions that rely on minions surviving to the Regroup phase, as long as you can afford to skirmish with Boromir
since ninjutsu won't count as your only spell for the turn
Poor Peter Parker
However, this newest edition includes a significant bump to the number of cards inside: 150 to last year's 120
