The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a regular guest on the table, at least when I play solo. Not every round is remarkable, even though the games are usually fun. But yesterday, I sent my renovated Ent deck into the race for the first time, this time against the first scenario of the Black Rider. And the result was impressive. The deck didn't run smoothly at all - only a few Ents, only one of the Ent Grave events (where you can take all Ent cards from the top 5). No Shadowmane for Gandalf. So not really optimal - and yet the deck held up extremely well. The situation never really became dangerous, the black riders (though also with a lot of luck, none of them got their mount) were not a real threat, as I could almost always pull them out of staging to block them cleanly and then shred them with a few Ents. Thanks to some Quick Knots, the Hobbits were always available to send them to hiding tests and in case of emergency they could be improved with Ents. And Treebeard was soon there as a solid defender and quester and additional resource source. The switch away from Treebeard as a hero to Gandalf definitely gives me a good piece of control over the player deck, which helps a lot with a sluggish start of the deck - especially with poorer development in the first rounds, the old version was quickly overwhelmed and here I had to face 9-11 threat in the lineup very quickly. A really nice deck and I think I can let it run against the whole campaign.