Overview:

This Éowyn, Shieldmaiden Human tribal deck focuses on token generation and monarch synergies to overwhelm opponents through combat. While it has some explosive token-producing turns and anthem effects, it lacks fast combos, robust protection, and sufficient interaction to handle higher-power metas.

Primer:

Core Strategy: The deck aims to swarm the board with Human tokens using Éowyn's triggered ability and supplemental token generators like Oath of Eorl and Forth Eorlingas!. Key phases:

1. Early Setup: Use 1-3 mana Humans like Weathered Wayfarer and Harsh Mentor to enable Éowyn's token generation while ramping with Herald's Horn and Arcane Signet.
2. Board Amplification: Deploy anthem effects like Shared Animosity and Door of Destinies to make tokens threatening. Use monarch cards like Throne of the High City for card advantage.
3. Combat Payoffs: Leverage extra combat enablers like Combat Celebrant and token doublers like Flamerush Rider to close games. Supreme Verdict provides reset protection.

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with 3 lands and early Human plays
• Prioritize ramp artifacts over high-cost enchantments
• Reject hands without turn 2-3 Human plays

Key Tips:

• Time Éowyn casts after establishing 1-2 Human generators
• Use Unbreakable Formation proactively before board wipes
• Leverage Palace Jailer monarch triggers to maintain card advantage

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• No protection for key anthem enchantments
• Lacks answers to flying/reach threats Moderate:
• Slow recovery from board wipes (only Marshal's Anthem as recursion)
• Limited card advantage outside monarch Minor:
• Some clunky 5+ CMC spells (Increasing Devotion, Court of Ire)

Most Important Cards:

• Shared Animosity
• Door of Destinies
• Vanquisher's Banner
• Oath of Eorl
• Forth Eorlingas!
• Combat Celebrant
• Riders of Rohan
• Marshal's Anthem
• Sunset Revelry
• Increasing Devotion

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 5/10

• Goldfish win potential around T7-8 through token scaling. High-cost payoffs like Forth Eorlingas! (X=5+ requires T6+)

Resilience: 4/10

• Minimal protection spells (only 2 indestructible effects)
• No graveyard recursion except Marshal's Anthem
• Relies on board presence for monarch card draw

Consistency: 5/10

• 8 pseudo-tutors (Herald's Horn, Weathered Wayfarer, Boromir, Gondor's Hope)
• Redundant token generators but limited anthem redundancy
• No free card draw engines

Interaction: 4/10

• 5 targeted removal (Path to Exile, Swords to Plowshares)
• 1 board wipe (Supreme Verdict)
• No counterspells or stax pieces

Rating Justification:

This deck sits between "Upgraded Jank" (3.5) and "Focused Casual" (4.5) in the rubric. Its T7-8 combat win potential and moderate synergy surpasses precon-level play, but the lack of:

• Fast mana
• Free interaction
• Combo finishers
• Robust protection

prevents it from reaching optimized casual tiers. The monarch subtheme adds value but doesn't compensate for critical vulnerabilities to common removal strategies.

Power level: 4.0 - 4.5