I do not know why he does not have reviews, he is amazing hero. First, he have 3 def and can boost it up to 6! With allies like Imladris Stargazer he can make things like Hidden Cache happens very fast. Second, 5 hp is a lot! Third, opposite to leadership Dain, blue Dain can be used in any deck (he is not limited by the dwarves).

This hero sat in my binder for a while after I got the repackaged Ered Mithrin expansion, but the other night I made a solo Dwarf Delving deck (delving: discarding cards from your own deck) the other night and played this Dáin Ironfoot in it, so now I can share my thoughts about him.

Dáin Ironfoot has two main uses that go well together. One is a repeatable source of deck-discarding on a hero, so you don't have to rely on drawing your delving cards like Zigil Miner or A Very Good Tale in order to try for your delving payoffs. The other is being a big tough defender, which is extremely useful in a Dwarf deck where most of your allies are really squishy. For both of these purposes, Dáin did remarkably well in my game! I was regularly defending against attacks of 6 or more turn after turn and suffering almost no damage, and with Will of the West played twice this game, I got at least six Hidden Caches and six Ered Luin Miners activated that game! Needless to say it was exciting.

However, there's a pretty significant drawback with Dáin, which is not what he lets you do but rather what he doesn't let you do: he doesn't let you (or anyone else at the table) run his version. This means in order to use the version, you have to give up on the version's massive and boost to all the Dwarves at the table if you plan on swarming with Dwarves. And because Dwarf decks naturally swarm the table with allies, it'll really make me think twice before choosing the version over the version. But I could see choosing the version in a dedicated delving deck if ALeP makes more cards that care about delving or if I really just need 6 on a hero.