User:Tunadan/Nertea

Strategy

Nertea, Dark Horseman is one of the most popular versions of Nertea and also a powerful (and by many viewed as broken) card against one- or two-culture decks.

When Nertea was released in Ages' End, he became the bane of monoculture decks such as Gondor Tanks and Rohan that run either all companions of their culture (with the possible exception of Frodo as Ring-bearer). Nertea is then free to repeatedly be assigned to the Ring-bearer and potentially corrupt them.

Because of this, Nertea was the perfect addition to Nazgul Corruption, as he is strong against Alternate Ring-Bearers, especially ones that have skirmishing penalties like Boromir, Bearer of Council (9R+31) and Gimli, Bearer of Grudges (9R+4) . Nertea also is a solid addition to a Morcs deck, as he easily piles up burdens, and depending on the Ring-bearer, threats or wounds on the Ring-bearer.