*** Update ***

I have changed my deck significantly to pass SAF.  Mainly taking our events and attachments and adding 1 and 2 cost allies to be sacraficial lambs to Durin's Bane.  I will be playing through the rest of the cycle to see if these decks can make it through the entire cycle and are not just specialized to SAF.

The basics of what I am using is a Spirit/Lore and Lead/Tactics with Aragorn, Elrond, Spirfindel and Elrohir, Elledan, and Legolas.  The idea is to make "Elf" decks, and I think it works with the theme of Dwarrodelf since you are first going from Lorien to Rivendell then Elrond asks you to go to Moria.  The second reason is because there are a lot of killer Dwarf decks out there and I havent seen a relly good Elf Deck yet, so why not make one myself.

For the spriit/lore deck the MOST improtant thing is getting "Light of Valinor" (FOS) on Glorfindel so he can quest "for free".  2nd is getting Vilya out on Elrond and the other is having the L/T deck get Celeborn's Stone out for Aragorn.  Vilya and Celeborn's stone are not as important as getting the Light on Glorfindel.

For the L/T deck I dont really have a "must have" starting hand except maybe getting Rivendell Blade on Legolas might be nice, and getting "Stewart of Gondor" or "Resourceful" on Elrohir would be nice, but not necessary.  This deck is made to get "support of the eagles" on Legolas (for attack) or Elrohir (for defense) and use "Eagles of the Misty Mountains" stacked with "Vassal of the Windlord" and "Winged Guardian" to make them have super attack or defense.

***Update***

So this deck was a little worse for entire cycle, but better for SAF.  I initially had some trouble out of the gate with Redhorn Gate, I almost changed my deck again becuase I thought it was going to be impossible.  The basic strategy behind my deck is the entry above.  Basically get the Light of Valinor on Glorfindel and get 2 copies of Feint in the other hand for Hama to disable enemies with.

The biggest reason I had to change decks was becasue my Lead/Tac deck was 50% events 30% char and 20% att.  And while it worked well on 5 of the 6 chapters it failed miserably in SAF.  First Legolas went bye bye and Hama was added for his ability to get Feint back into my hand.  So that deck changed to include more low cost characters and slim down the events and attachments, I even reduced so many card I put some resource generation in.  My Spirit/Lore deck suffered because going strictly on theme gave me too many high cost allies, which again worked well for 5 of the 6 chapters but when you cant get a low cost ally out to sacrafice to Durin's Bane it really hurts saying goodbye to a hero.

So once again my "theme" of Elves got spit up and I ended up with some men and dwarves in to help the elves out.  I'm just disspointed mainly because there are so many great "dwarf decks" out there that really stick to a dwarves only theme.  So for both Mirkwood and Dwarrowdelf I had to blow up my theme to get something that worked for the entire cycle.

So my scores went (score, wins/losses): TRG 198 1/4, RTR 119 1/2, TWITW 116 1/1, TLD 134 1/2, FOS 202 1/2, SAF 169 1/1.

My decks went like this:

Heroes:

Loragorn, Elrond, Spirfindel                                                                                    Elrohir, Elledan, Hama

Allies:  (Spirit, Lore, Neutral)                                                                                  (Leadership, Tactics, Neutral)

Lorien Guidex3                                                                                                     Guard of the Citadel x3

Northern Tracker x2                                                                                              Snowbourn Scout x3

Bofur x1                                                                                                              Veteran Axehand x3

Arwen Undomiel x2                                                                                              Gondorian Spearman x3

Imladris Stargazer x3                                                                                           Winged Guardian x3

Daughter of the Nimrondel x3                                                                                Vassal of the Windlord x3

Erebor Hammersmith x3                                                                                       Eagles of the Misty Mountains x3

Henamarth Riversong x2                                                                                       Watcher of the Bruinen x3

Gleowine x2                                                                                                        Trollshaw Scout x3

Miner of the Iron Hills x3                                                                                       Gandalf x3

Haldir of Lorien x1

Gildor Inglorioin x1

Master of the Forge x3

Gandalf x 2

Events:  (same order)

The Galadrim's Greeting x3                                                                                 Sneak Attack x3

A Test of Will x3                                                                                                Feint x3

Elrond's Counsel x3                                                                                           Unseen Strike x3

Lore of Imladris x2                                                                                             

Attachments: (same order)

The Favor of the Lady x1                                                                                    Steward of Gondor x1

Light of Valinor x3                                                                                             Celebrian's Stone x1

A Burning Brand x2                                                                                           Horn of Gondor x1

Asfaloth x1                                                                                                       Support of the Eagles x1

Vilya x1                                                                                                            Keeping Count x3

                                                                                                                        Rivendell Blade x3

                                                                                                                        Resourceful x1

Sorry for the delay for all those who like to check up on this.  This is a tough cycle, and I have only had time to play about 3x a week lately and when you fail as much as I was it takes a while to get stuff done.  Let me know if people out there are still interested, I should be moving on to my HoN box next and I am still thinking of a theme for that deck.  I am thinking a Gondor/Rohan mix, but let me know what has worked out there for you guys.

Also for the community: am I too strict with my theme?  When you guys theme a deck for say "Gondor" do you include dwarves, elves and rohan types to help?