Riders of Rohan - Starter Deck 1.0

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I think if you got both both this deck and the Gondor starter deck, making a lineup of Lothiriel, Eomer, and Prince Imrahil would be really good with just core set + starters.

This not really a good solo deck... Or a good deck at all really. There doesn't seem to be a Defender.

I guess it's relying on chumping for defense, to trigger Eomer?

Or just in Lothiriel's ability. Put an ally into play, and shuffle into deck at the end of the quest phase, it has "leaved play" so, it triggers Eomer.

Lothiriel's ability is only the quest phase, so while that will trigger Eomer's ability, it doesn't help the deck defend.

Agree with @AutumnRose here. Very much a lot of synergies with Core + Starters. I think it is the weaker of the four but still fun to show what is possbile.

I think even an Erkenbrand and some armor attachments may have helped.

I think when we get closer to release date we will get more design theory, I hope, from Caleb and MJ.

Either way - enjoy.

Yeah, I think the design theory here was mostly “we can’t use cards from the LotR sagas.” So without things like Snowmane, Golden Shield, Herugrim, Gamling, etc, etc this was basically the best deck they could make. Not even really a point including Théoden if you can’t include any of the toys that make him decent. Erkenbrand is great, but there aren’t many Leadership Rohan cards they could include in the pack, so I guess they prioritized getting as many of the allies they could in here.

Rohan discard was the worst of the four archetypes they built starters for, but then also had the unfortunate problem of being the most hamstrung by which packs Caleb could use to build the decks also.

Oh, sure, I misread and only keep the part of trigering Eomer, not the defending one.

Should have skipped the archetype and done so thing stronger like the Minstrel deck. Lol. I’ve played it 5 times and I’ve got through Mirkwood twice. Without meaningful card draw, resource acceleration or a defender, this deck is going to be a rough go for new players.

@Shellin what makes you think they couldn't use saga cards? Was it stated somewhere? Dwarves of Durin draws heavily from The Hobbit expansions

@MarvelsTold Yeah, they used a decent number of cards from the two Hobbit boxes, but zero cards from any of the six LotR boxes in any of the four starter decks. Someone on the Facebook group posted an analysis of which packs the cards came from and it is pretty clear they didn’t want to include those Saga boxes or the Angmar, Dream-chaser, and Ered Mithrin cycles in these packs. Only one card total across the four decks came from those sets.

While I never played Rohan deck, I do see few issues. One, I do not think there is enough card draw to fuel Lothiriel's ability. And there is no defender, so if you are playing quest where you have to engage lot of enemires, then you may end up chumpblocking way too much, which is waste of resources. And will get you in trouble. And means Lothiriel's ability would likely have to be skipped all together.

@Ageolite Ancient Mathom, Horn of the Mark, and the built in search seems like decent draw for a starter deck. Lothiriel looks more incidental at first, but with over half the deck being allies and shuffle being part of her ability, it should be neat, if not good. The deck may not be ideal for solo (1 hand), or as an all comers build, but it's probably fine and fun as a mp for the 5 relaunched scenarios. After that, buy more cards and improve the deck.

I attempted to make my own version of this deck. I'm not sure how great it will be, but swapping Hirgon for Fastred to have a dedicated defender seemed like the good first choice.

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