No reviews on this guy yet? Well let’s fix that. Rohirrim Scout joins the Rohan theme of discarding from play for an effect, namely to prevent an enemy from making engagement checks against you. Now he won’t work against those giant enemies that are immune to player card effects, but he does still block the ones that can only not take attachments (looking at you ships and trolls). Now normally keeping an enemy in the staging area is just delaying the inevitable but in Rohan’s case they have some tools for that. Leadership Eomer and Dunhere both can go after enemies in the staging area and with their Spear of the Mark get boosted for doing so.

Westfield Lancer can damage an enemy after questing successfully. Ride them Down can turn progress tokens into damage. Forth Eorlingas! Can likewise allow any of your Rohan heroes to target enemies in the staging area. Or if you have ranged available you can Hands Upon The Bow and blast away.

My personal favourite build for this ally is playing 3 of them along with Dunhere with weapons like spear of the mark annd Guthwine and Spirit Theoden. This way you don’t even need to be low threat to block enemies from engaging you, drop a scout in for 1 resource, quest with it then enable Dunhere to skewer the enemy. Also with Guthwine this effect is infinitely repeatable.

See deck list example: ringsdb.com