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Play Deck (64 cards)
Resources (30 cards)
Allies
- 3 Noble Steed
- 1 Wild Horses
Factions
- 1 Dunlendings
- 1 Riders of Rohan
- 1 Southrons
Items
- 1 Glamdring
- 1 Great-shield of Rohan
- 1 Hauberk of Bright Mail
- 1 Orcrist
- 1 Red Arrow
- 1 Torque of Hues
Events
- 3 Flatter a Foe
- 2 Helm of Her Secrecy
- 2 Longbottom Leaf
- 2 Lordly Presence
- 1 Marvels Told
- 3 Risky Blow
- 2 Thorough Search
- 2 Token of Goodwill
Hazards (30 cards, including 12 creatures)
Creatures
- 2 Assassin
- 2 Cave-drake
- 2 Corsairs of Umbar
- 2 Pûkel-men
Half-creatures
- 1 Adûnaphel
- 1 Anarin
- 1 Baduila
- 1 Daelomin at Home
- 1 Indûr Dawndeath
- 1 Mouth of Sauron
- 1 Ûvatha the Horseman
- 1 Wormtongue
Events
- 3 An Unexpected Outpost
- 1 Call of Home
- 2 Foolish Words
- 1 Many Sorrows Befall
- 1 Power Built by Waiting
- 1 Redoubled Force
- 1 Revealed to all Watchers
- 1 Twilight
- 3 Unabated in Malice
Characters (4 cards)
- 3 Radagast
- 1 Éowyn
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Pool (15 cards)
Resources (2 cards)
- 1 Horn of Anor
- 1 Star-glass
Characters (10 cards)
- 1 Arwen
- 1 Éomer
- 1 Erkenbrand
- 1 Gamling the Old
- 1 Glóin
- 1 Haldalam
- 1 Háma
- 1 Théoden
- 1 Vygavril
- 1 Wacho
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Sideboard (30 cards)
Resources (14 cards)
- 2 And Forth He Hastened
- 1 Forewarned Is Forearmed
- 1 Horns, Horns, Horns
- 1 Longbottom Leaf
- 1 Old Friendship
- 1 Sacrifice of Form
- 1 Shadowfax
- 1 Smoke Rings
- 1 The White Wizard
- 1 Wild Horses
- 1 Withdrawn to Mordor
- 1 Wizard Uncloaked
- 1 Wizard’s River-horses
Hazards (16 cards)
- 2 An Article Missing
- 1 Diminish and Depart
- 1 Drór
- 2 Good Sense Revolts
- 1 In the Heart of his Realm
- 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
- 1 Lost in Free-domains
- 1 My Precious
- 1 Neither so Ancient Nor so Potent
- 1 Pilfer Anything Unwatched
- 1 Pôn-ora-Pôn
- 1 Seek without Success
- 1 Siege
- 1 The Way is Shut
Second Wizard (3 cards)
- 3 Pallando
Explanation of the deck :
The Rohirrim
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Deck Requirements
DR: None.
WR:
Easy: Shadowfax or 2 Noble Steed, Great Shield of Rohan, Red Arrow, Riders of Rohan, and 4 characters with home site Edoras are in play.
Medium: Shadowfax or 2 Noble Steed, Great Shield of Rohan, Red Arrow, Riders of Rohan, Dunlendings or Wild Horses, and 4 characters with home site Edoras are in play.
Difficult: Shadowfax or 2 Noble Steed, Great Shield of Rohan, Red Arrow, Riders of Rohan, and 4 characters with home site Edoras are in play. Dunlendings and Wild Horses are in play. Helm of Her Secrecy has been played, and Éowyn is still in play.
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The principle of my deck is quite simple: play all your MPs!
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Starting Company
Théoden (with Horn of Anor)
Haldalam
Erkenbrand
Háma
Wacho (with Star-glass)
If your opponent is playing Minas Tirith, Arwen will replace Wacho.
Glóin will be your backup warrior/diplomat.
This company does not contain a ranger, so it’s up to you whether you prefer Éomer over Erkenbrand...
Vygavril is in the deck by default, but she can also take Wacho's place to serve as a Nazgûl decoy. However, in that case, you won’t have a sage anymore.
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General Deck Strategy
The main goal is to play mostly in Harondor. Here, you can:
- Play major items with Thorough Search.
- Deploy your 5-point faction.
- Get horses.
- Trade at Gobel Mírlond.
This region is also filled with Nazgûl, and your opponent might be tempted to play one as a creature.
That would be a mistake: you can kill it with Helm of Her Secrecy and earn 5 creature points!
You will also spend a lot of time in free-holds or border-holds, where the probability of encountering human hazards is high.
This is a great opportunity for Token of Goodwill, which is why I don’t recommend playing Forewarned Is Forearmed until you have placed both of them.
Meanwhile, Radagast will travel back and forth across Eriador, between the Haven and Dunish Clan-Hold, waiting for the faction and drawing 6 cards per turn.
(Watch out for pirates in Cardolan, but since they are humans, if your Mage’s company has a minor item, you know what to do
). Do not fear Call of Home in the early game, it will be a good teleport to Edoras.
So, make sure to leave some free direct influence under Théoden for Flatter a Foe, to prevent him from getting killed by a Cave-Drake before getting his shield or mail coat!
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Turn 1
Your main company heads to The Stone, hoping to find Orcrist, or at least a major item.
If you have Token of Goodwill in hand, then head straight to Geann a-Lisch to trade the Red Arrow for the Star-glass.
The Red Arrow should be placed under Haldalam, so that he controls Théoden, freeing up 6 general influence points.
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Hazard Strategy
It’s pretty straightforward:
- Strike everywhere.
- Disrupt your opponent as much as possible.
Good luck!
