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Vigilant Guard is very expensive. and it does not cancel an attack it does only reduce the damage by 1 (in words "one") and swap it to (gimli in this case)

so regarding damagereducing, the Honour Guard is mostly better because cheaper and can be used as ally with more options.

regarding hitpoints is 2 for the cost of 3 not the best ratio.

it is good for gimli but you rarely gind other situations where it is used. it is so expansive with cost of 3 (you could pay 3 Feint with that or Thicket of Spears or something with more defense.....)

getting 2 hp is so much easier:

• Ent Draught
• Raiment of War
• Ring Mail + Boots from Erebor

all are more cheap.

the combo with Citadel Plate is not bad, but it cost 7 (in words "seven") tactic-res.... what can be done with that amount otherwise.... and you want to have it before the game is over.

so you can do good things with it, but get it on the table at a time where it is worth it is very hard. specially with only 1 tactic-hero i would not use it. if u can manage to get it into play with Well-Equipped (what is possible with Wizard Pipe on Gandalf ) Well-Equipped is double-good for u because you also get Citadel Plate cheap into play.

consider Bilbo Baggins as Messenger of the King to start with a pipe in your hand.

Oh… I read the card as deal one damage instead of dealing the damage to another character… oh no… my favourite dwarf deck now needs a redesign.

other things to consider:

if using Bilbo Baggins as Messenger of the King you only need 1 of him and should replace Sam Gamgee because without frodo he is to expensive.

for that 5 cards i would include:

• 3 Imladris Stargazer makes mining so much easier and let you get the mportant cards earlier
• 2 Galadriel's Handmaiden they are one of the best cheap spiritallies imo

if u want to go with more hobbit-alies than u can go for:

• Odo Proudfoot
• Bywater Shirriff
• Pippin

else either include Well-Equipped (with Imladris Stargazer around very good) or reduce Citadel Plate and Vigilant Guard for more allies

if you use #bilbo as Messenger of the King and take the Wizard Pipe you only need 1 and have 2 more spare cards to use.

if reducing plate and guard i would fill with the tactic-allies above or if ther eis room the good old Veteran Axehand is playable within 1 round with the help of Gandalf + Wizard Pipe and can help where it is needed (attacking or chumping)

staying on Frodo Baggins and use hm specially with his ability for defense, then the Ring Mail is a good thing, it can also go to Gimli so its is not wasted to take 3 if going that way.

hope i could inspire you, happy questing