Riders of Rohan Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

First strike At the beginning of combat on your turn, if another Human entered the battlefield under your control this turn, create two 2/2 red Human Knight creature tokens with trample and haste. Then if you control six or more Humans, draw a card.

Singles value

$82.61

TCGplayer market, 81 cards, basic lands counted at $0

Sealed price

$78.55

TCGplayer price for the box (Amazon $98.95) · singles are 1.1× that

New cards

20 / 100

First printings in this deck

Bracket

Core, out of the box

Is Riders of Rohan worth buying?

from Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Commander Decks: Are They Worth It? by Ignacio (Iñaki)

This deck seems a bit weaker in terms of value. The only reprint worth over $10 is Door of Destinies, and I’d say it’s safe to assume that original cards may lose a bit of their value with time.

In terms of playability, it does a good job of having clear strategies with clear and straightforward support. It makes it easy and possible to go wide with Human tokens, taking advantage of several of the cards in the deck to make that token army overwhelmingly strong. The monarch theme also gets some great support and can easily be complemented with other monarch cards if you want to steer it in that direction.

Lore-wise I think the deck is kinda all over the place. I don’t really like that the deck is called Riders of Rohan when almost half of the deck is made up of Gondorians. If I’m not wrong, there are actually more Gondorian legendary creatures than there are Rohirrim, too. I also think having Éowyn as the leader of the deck doesn’t suit all that well thematically considering she wasn’t the leader of her army, but rather had to hide herself so she could actually march to battle.

Having Aragorn as the commander would’ve made more sense, especially since he’s the one to convince King Théoden to march towards Gondor. I also have some issues with Éowyn’s art because her pose and movement look completely unnatural and I think it takes away from how genuinely cool her fight against the Fell Beast actually was (yes, I’m absolutely nitpicking, don’t mention it).

How Riders of Rohan plays

primer from Riders of Rohan Upgrade Guide: 10 Easy Changes You Can Make by Timothy Zaccagnino

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden rides at the front of Riders of Rohan. There’s also a secondary theme around monarchy, supported by the deck’s lieutenant Aragorn, King of Gondor.

I personally think Éowyn, Shieldmaiden is a notably powerful commander. It’s a 5/4 body with first strike for a total mana value of five, which is already pretty decent, but it also consistently creates tokens and can eventually become a way to draw cards. You’re gonna be activating Éowyn’s ability more often than not because this deck has plenty of ways to put humans onto the battlefield.

Aragorn, King of Gondor brings a lot of support for the monarch theme while also using that to enable wide attacks by stopping your opponent’s creatures from blocking.

A lot of the new cards in this deck bring plenty of support for the monarch theme: Denethor, Stone Seer, Archivist of Gondor, Éomer, King of Rohan, Champions of Minas Tirith, Forth Eorlingas!, Crown of Gondor, Fealty to the Realm, and Oath of Eorl all bring some much needed support for the archetype, and in varied and interesting ways. There’s also Faramir, Steward of Gondor, which cares about monarch, creates humans, and supports a mini-subtheme of the deck with legendary creatures mattering.