Hirluin the Fair is a EPIC hero! He is nothing without Outlands cards but those are so good I could put them in any deck even without Hirluin . With all the Outlands boosters he can have four , and seven . And all the Outlands cards are boosting each other at the same time!

Hirluin is OP in an outlands deck, which if you have The Stewards Fear you can make one. With Outlands cards, the Steward has nothing to fear!

Overall 7/10

Hirluin is a very niche hero. I can't really see using him in anything outside of your typical Outland swarm decks. Maybe if you're on the fence when deck building and need a low threat leadership hero but even then he'll need his allies or else his stats will be wasted, and there are other better options like Denethor and Sam Gamgee in those regards. He does have a better pool of hit points for quests with archery I guess.

There are heroes who are very hard to rate, however Hirluin the Fair is not one of them. Outlands are extremely good, he makes them even better. His resource smoothing is not without alternative (e.g. Elrond), however it is most often the best choice for an Outlands deck. Add to that his low starting threat, the ranged keyword and him being in the sphere Outlands needs most (Leadership) and you might not have a hero that completely elevates his archetype to other dimensions (compared to heroes like Dáin Ironfoot, Celeborn or Brand son of Bain), but one that makes everything an Outlands deck wants to do a lot easier.

Rating: 8.5/10

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