Is there a non-broken use for Gamling's and Erkenbrand's Horn?

[Yanko Markovic]

Just that. I was wondering if there was a deck that used Gamling's horn and/or Erkenbrands horn that is obviously not a Horn deck. I really think these cards have a lot of potential, well, a little less potential than in a Horn deck.

[MuadDib85]

Gamling, Defender of The Hornburg
Erkenbrand's Horn
Falls of Rauros


A nice splash to any deck in which you want 2 guaranteed followers at site 1.

Start Gamling, grab horn, grab followers, kill gamling, use falls of rauros, it's like he was never there..

[Yanko Markovic]

LOOOOOL the very idea of the combo is just hilarious. Trying to imagine the scene: The Fellowship is just setting out to start their quest, it's the very first turn, Gamling blows his horn, two random people arrive, then Gamling dies falling down the Falls of Rauros. The Fellowship is like "WTF?"

No, but seriously, it's a very nice combo, now I just need to think of a deck that should use it...

[MuadDib85]

Fearless Marksman Woodhall Elf

No Visitors Daddy Twofoot

Something like that could be fun..

[Yanko Markovic]

Hey! I actually though of using it in my Rohan Shire wounding deck! Instead of waiting Birthday Present to appear, just use this to grab Daddy Twofoot to get back Unheeded whenever needed. What do you think? Might change the decklist...

[legolas3333]

How about to discard saruman, servant of sauron?

[Gil-Estel]

I use it to set up my solo galadriel . Not that it is a good deck, well, it can be good, but I played it a few times and having my archery neglected by that stupid uruk loving site, blugh! But I can get Celebring, Elven Smith, Galadriel's Silver Ewer and Woodhal Elf out in the first turn...which is good of course ;-)

[Larry5000]

Gamling, Defender of The Hornburg
Erkenbrand's Horn
Falls of Rauros


A nice splash to any deck in which you want 2 guaranteed followers at site 1.

Start Gamling, grab horn, grab followers, kill gamling, use falls of rauros, it's like he was never there..

I just realize that you can get any old followers out they do not have to be Rohan followers,(where there is only 3 of them) because you are not using them for their intendent purpose. So if that is correct you could every so often keep getting followers out of your draw deck for the pumps of 4 or 5 throughout the game.

[Deckhunter]

I use gamling and his horn in several decks, the most powerful of which is my Bilbo and rohan skirmishers I have posted here, but I also use him in my elven tanks deck mostly just to grab celebring and rohirrim doorwarden before pulling out lembas every turn. Gets galadriel to an easy seventeen strength that way. That deck is also on here as well as my fearless garrisson deck where he should die to bring down companion and culture counts after grabbing the followers.
Basically, he's useful for pulling important followers right off the bat and doesn't have to live past that in most decks but it can be fun to keep him around in some strategies for other reasons. One thing I could see if a deck with a lot of burden removal that needs some wound protection could toss in a few golden glimmer to keep everyone alive. Aragorn, ranger of the north + pippin, brave decoy + daddy twofoot + no visitors is good, but archery could be a problem for such an exertion heavy strategy on aragorn.
Also, it's fun trying to make rohirrim doorwarden decks for different cultures (elven, dwarven, gondor, not sure about gandalf or smeagol though unless they use elven possessions too.)
Hope this helps.

[Larry5000]

I use gamling and his horn in several decks, the most powerful of which is my Bilbo and rohan skirmishers I have posted here, but I also use him in my elven tanks deck mostly just to grab celebring and rohirrim doorwarden before pulling out lembas every turn. Gets galadriel to an easy seventeen strength that way. That deck is also on here as well as my fearless garrisson deck where he should die to bring down companion and culture counts after grabbing the followers.
Basically, he's useful for pulling important followers right off the bat and doesn't have to live past that in most decks but it can be fun to keep him around in some strategies for other reasons. One thing I could see if a deck with a lot of burden removal that needs some wound protection could toss in a few golden glimmer to keep everyone alive. Aragorn, ranger of the north + pippin, brave decoy + daddy twofoot + no visitors is good, but archery could be a problem for such an exertion heavy strategy on aragorn.
Also, it's fun trying to make rohirrim doorwarden decks for different cultures (elven, dwarven, gondor, not sure about gandalf or smeagol though unless they use elven possessions too.)
Hope this helps.

Yes thank you. I have now what I call a possession deck based off of Gamling Warrior of Rohan.. you can't beat playing possessions on him for + 2 strength and the twilight is not in the beginning of the fellowship so your opponent can not use it against you. I just started to mess with that kind of deck as it was not until recently I got Gamling in that version. (I know late starter) I use 2 or 3 copies of Rohirrim Scout to pull weapons back up and reuse on him again and again and again.

I have not done it yet but going to try to put Gandalf in more for the express purpose of using Gandalf's hat so that on my first go around of whatever turn if I have to do to many possessions on Gamling Warrior of Rohan to give him a high strength to beat somebody, on the regroup phase I can use his hat and take all the twilight back so my opponent does not get to use it for the second time around on my next turn. ( I know that is sneaky)

After that way of playing my possession deck I want to take Gandalf back out (just being careful not to give to many possessions on him, the first time around) and put in Merry Swordthain along with Home and Hearth for garbing possessions back out of the discard pile and contributing to good burden removal when I replay him over and over and over. On yea the rohirrim doorwarden follower works great in this possession deck for his intended purpose too.