Fury of the White Rider + Followers help

[Shelobplayer]

Since I got back to the game about a month ago I want to create a beastly Gandalf deck, mostly with Powerful Guide or Gandalf, Returned. One of my friends opened a bunch of RoS boosters, and the only card that grabbed his attention was Meneldor (yeah I can't really understand it either..), and he kept babbling about a gandy follower deck until even I got warmed to the idea, mostly because with the followers I can utilize such awesome cards like Deep in Thought or Fury of the White Rider.

The basic Idea would be to start with Gamling, DotH so he can pull Erkenbrand's Horn and two followers with it, then he can die at the next site. Some kind of Gandalf and 4 Fury of the White Rider would be the base, but other than that, I'm not really sure. I thought about the following versions:

-Ring-bound hobbits with Powerful Guide, Aged Ring-Bearer and Gandalf's Hat to enable doubles (starting at the Green Dragon Inn)

-some kind of rohan tank with Lady of Ithilien and Gandalf, Returned + Radagast's Herb Bag (in this version Gamling may survive the 2nd site, and I could play rohan followers too)

-Bearer of Obligation + gandy men

So my question is: has any of you played a deck like this, and if so, then what are your experiences? Also I appreciate any advice you give.

B.

[macheteman]

it would be really cool to have a frodo ringbearer, with merry swordthain, pippin wobas, and gamling start. pack a bunch of gandalf PG, radagast, and eowyn lady of ithilian. pippin serves as early protection, and then sacrifice him, gamling gets sacrificed whenever you need to. and then your final fellowship would be frodo and merry (maybe utilizing shadowplay to neutralize enqueas and the like) eowyn, finishing off the minions, and getting her toys back with merry. gandalf uses fury of the white rider, trigering his text, and then drop a burden and en exert on radagast bearing herb bag, and you could be dishing out some serious wounds.

probably too much going on, but hey, it has some crazy awesome wounding potential.

[Shelobplayer]

@Macheteman: I really don't like the bouncing hobbit tech, it clogs my hand and sets back my shadow, but I will think about the LoI splash (just as for any other deck, LoI is overpowered ).

Here is a rough list for the ring-bound hobbit build:

Ring-Bearer: Frodo, Resolute Hobbit + SaWtC

Starting:
1 x Gamling, DotH
1 x Sam, Great Elf Warrior

4 x A Wizard is Never Late
4 x Fury of the White Rider
4 x Servant of the Secret Fire
2 x Gandalf, Powerful Guide
1 x Erland, Dale Counselor
1 x Radagast's Herb Bag
2 x Glamdring, Foe-Hammer
2 x Gandalf's Hat
1 x Gandalf's Staff

1 x Erkenbrand's Horn
1 x Pallando, Far Travelling One
1 x Gwaihir, The Windlord
1 x Meneldor, Misty Mountain Eagle
1 x Radagast, Tender of Beasts

1 x Bilbo, Aged Ring-Bearer
1 x Sting, Weapon of Heritage
2 x Hobbit Sword
4 x A Promise

Sites:
- Green Dragon Inn
- burden removing sites

So, it is currently 36, and I think I can make it bigger, maybe 38-40 cards, since I will pull 4 fp cards at the first site and I will keep cycling with Gandalf (Roll of Thunder, Deep in Thought and Recovered Seeing Stone may get in). The plan is to set up the fellowship in the first 2 turns and then make doubles with Gandalf's Hat. I haven't played it yet, but I think it looks decent on paper.

If the strategy will work, I may add a Radagast, to enable triples and he can carry GotM, and his staff may also come in handy.

Other cards I'm considering:
-Eowyn, Lady of Ithilen: I can add 1-3 copies of it to the deck, and I don't really feel like she need her stuff here
-Shadowplay: maybe 2-3, but I'm not really sure without Unheeded or Strength of Spirit.
-The Tale of the Great Ring (10U116): helps Bilbo staying alive.
-Switching RB to Sam, BoGN: his regroup ability will be pretty useful, but he has only 8 resistance here, and also this way I would lose a good skirmisher (GEW)

Currently I have the following 3 shadow sides I can pair it with:
-Corsairs (Under Foot powered)
-Ninja Gollum (without Not This Time , but I'm working on getting some )
-Eater of Light - Orc combo (this shadow side is huge, 40 cards at least)

What do you guys think?

[Haszor]

Matchetmann, for the minion wounding brilliant idea but if the opponent uses almost all the pool they have at their disposal, then you can't use the effect of the Fury of the White Rider.  Also Shelobplayer you may want to get a different Sam do to the fact that he'll only be strength 7 at most.  Maybe Sam, SoH for burden removal?

[Shelobplayer]

Matchetmann, for the minion wounding brilliant idea but if the opponent uses almost all the pool they have at their disposal, then you can't use the effect of the Fury of the White Rider.  Also Shelobplayer you may want to get a different Sam do to the fact that he'll only be strength 7 at most.  Maybe Sam, SoH for burden removal?

If you read my first post, then it is pretty obvious that I always have the twilight to use Fury of the White Rider, thanks to the aid costs of the followers...

Sam can be strength 13 at max with a sword and 4 promises, and he can get bigger with Meneldor, ans SotSF can help him win skirmishes too, so if he has Sting, WoH, then he can remove a lot of burdens.