Inspired by the "canonical" deck discussion, I decided to go and update my early Rohan analysis with decks from ringsdb. You can see the details here:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1523326/deck-analysis-part-24-riders-rohan
Based on the more recent analysis, I then constructed a deck designed to do nothing more than reflect the most popular choices for my stereotypical hero lineup. The result should be a deck that, while undoubtedly not the Best Rohan Deck Ever, should play out the Rohan archetype in a fairly stereotypical way. And that should make it unique in its own little way.
I thought the exercise was interesting and plan to do the same thing with other archetypes on an intermittent schedule. I've tried to identify cards that are identified with an archetype -- if you're running that sort of deck, you almost certainly have this card, and if you're not running that sort of deck you're not. These are the ones I've identified so far:
Tribal decks:
SpTheoden -- Rohan (already done)
Hirluin -- Outlands
Kahliel -- Harad
LeBrand -- Dale (not much to analyze yet)
Tom Cotton -- Hobbit (not much to analyze here, either)
O Lorien -- Silvan (Celeborn would work instead, but I decided to go with the discounter)
To the Sea, To the Sea -- Noldor
Eagles Are Coming -- Eagles
Entmoot -- Ents
Legacy of Durin -- Dwarves
Heir of Valandil -- Dunedain
Some miscellaneous non-hero decks:
Anborn -- traps (Damrod can be a good fit with a handful of traps in a lot of decks, but Anborn means you're *serious*)
Vilya -- Vilya
Zigil Miner -- dwarven mining
Resourceful -- secrecy
And some hero decks:
Erestor
Elladan & Elrohir
Caldara
Rossiel
Fastred
If there's other Heroes that warp the way the deck plays or demand a large amount of deck space, I'm open to nomination. Gloin can be one, but separating decks built around Gloin from the legion of core starter decks would be overwhelming. TaBoromir and Hama used to be one, but Hama's so limited now and the lack of infinite readying really narrows the gap between Super Boromir and Super Bilbo....
Anyways, here's the deck:
http://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/9180/a-stereotypical-rohan-deck-1.0