I had no idea you played, Mr. P. Good to know I'm not just singing to the trees with all of the articles I write.
I tend to focus entirely on Standard, though I enjoy dropping back to Tower Block to play my Isengard Orc deck (the guys who discard to wound in the regroup phase). It's a wacky deck but loads of fun to play, and nobody expects it or know how to play against it. I think I'm currently playing it with Elven Archery on the FP side, but I mix and match a lot.
As you can probably guess, I like to experiment with decks more than I like to hone them to a killing edge, so my current King Block deck is Nazgul and Nazgul Orcs, which I'm discovering actually work pretty well. I've also toyed around with a Sauron Orc Initiative strategy that I haven't tested yet, but could be fun (Rope and Winch is the best of the new discard cards, and the Sauron Orcs can use it better than anyone else).
In Standard I'm screwing around with a Knights/Besieger deck that sort of works--the FP side is much stronger than the shadow side, but I don't have enough site control cards to really make the Besiegers scary. My overall favorite deck, however, and the one that I actually am honing to a killing edge, is a Southron/Gimli deck that can really take people apart in standard. It uses the Southron threat strategy, and can quite regularly put out at least one minion on site 5 who's strength 17, fierce, and damage +2. In one game I got two of those guys on site 5, and my opponent pretty much just conceded. It has a little trouble building back up once it's killed a few characters, but it's enough to slow the other guy down while Gimli races to the finish line with huge pump cards and a pretty nice choke.
You know, Mr. P, if you want to send meyour deck lists and some commentary we could put together some pretty nice articles. Maybe some basic strategy some metagame analysis of the different formats. What do you think?
