No review for the best Knight on the realm? That can't do. Eomer just need 2 attachments to make in any deck to make him a killing machine. Firefoot and Rohan Warhorse. It might seem a bit weird to have 2 mounts but ancient riders always carry 2 horses.

Having firefoot raises his attack to 5 and that will kills most low or medium level monsters. Having warhorse, he can repeat the attack again. Can you imagine putting Unexpected Courage for a red attack? Not just that firefoot ensures you don't waste the excess attack by distributing it another enemy.

His ability is bonkers if you put him in an ally heavy deck especially when you can just use ally fodders to defend and eomer will scoop up another +2 attack. Now you are looking at a 7 attack hero with just 1 attachment firefoot + 1 character leaves play.

Eomer shines brightest when you put him in a silvan or noldor heavy deck. He will be the perfect 3rd tactic hero (a common weakness for silvan and noldor heroes) and he just need 2 attachments card to work without hogging the silvan and noldor cards. In a noldor deck, it's even a blessing, as you can just discard extra firefoot and Rohan warhorse.

Why noldor and silvan deck needs eomer is because characters come and go via card abilities as well and allies generally have low health and bad defenders. That is just perfect to trigger eomer abilities. Thematically, it's a bit weird to see Celeborn or Elrond to send their people as blood sacrifice to power up eomer rage attack.

Simply but Eomer is a beast.

Dedicated attacking heroes without ranged and no other unique abilities (like Aragorn, Háma or Merry) are cards I generally have a hard time including in decks. In solo, you rarely can afford to waste a third of your starting hero-power on a dedicated attacker (especially not when it also entails running the worst sphere by far in solo), in multiplayer ranged options tend to outclass non-ranged ones comfortably (at least when discounting the aforementioned examples).

Éomer unfortunately is exactly that - a dedicated non-ranged attacker with his ability only providing potentially more non-ranged attack power. That leaves him in a very awkward spot - because even if you can give him 5 attack consistently (running him next to a Silvan or in a Rohan deck for instance), that 5 attack is pretty unflexible. And while Firefoot does provide him with some much-needed nuance and upside, it is also quite expensive and needs some things to go right before its full effect can be utilized.

However what does elevate him is his wife Lothíriel. She not only reliably triggers Éomer's ability, giving her the Rohan trait also opens up a variety of fun and powerful combinations, especially if you combine her with Éomund (fittingly enough the father of Éomer). Now granted, you can enable the same combinations with leadership Éomer and this argument is more about Lothíriel being awesome than Éomer, but it does give him a decent relevance he would be lacking otherwise.

Rating: 4/10

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