A free restricted attachment that can go on any hero will never be bad in a post-Forth, The Three Hunters! world. And Round Shield even goes one step further, being attachable to any character in the game, giving it an unparalleled flexibility for archetypes such as Dale. And while it would already be rather decent without any more text than "Attach to a character. Restricted.", its ability is actually really useful, providing a nice defensive boost now and again. The definition of flexibility while giving you a useful effect to boot, Round Shield is a great fit for, well, pretty much wherever you want it.

Rating: 7/10

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Never my preferred first restricted attachment of course, War Axe is an amazing second, third or fourth option though, then providing really serious attack numbers. Notably also attachable to allies, it furthermore shines through its great in-sphere versatility.

Rating: 7.5/10

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With Dúnhere, Éomer (if you combine them with Fastred especially) or Háma (if you combine him with e.g. Charge into Battle), this is almost a guaranteed 2 attack for 1 resource and that is simply outstanding. The floor here, being still 1 attack for 1 resource, is also conveniently high, meaning Spear of the Mark is a very good weapon at any rate, even if only being suited for a select few heroes and archetypes.

Rating: 7.5/10

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There are pretty much three cards I play Citadel Plate with. The first two are The Burglar's Turn (where it is fine, not an auto-include by any stretch but still decent) and Gimli (who I don't consider a very good hero overall).

The third, and by far best use I have for Citadel Plate is Glóin. With the awesome resource acceleration that is Glóin, Citadel Plate is THE key card to push that archetype to the next level. Additionally, Glóin decks don't really care that much about its unreasonable steep cost, because they both have almost unparalleled resource acceleration and access to Well-Equipped, which is by far my favorite way to play Citadel Plate. Without Glóin therefore, this card would probably be a 4/10 at most, with him though, this is a great card (event though still quite niche of course).

Rating: 7.5/10

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In direct damage decks, Spear of the Citadel often provides the remaining point of damage to kill an enemy before its attack resolves (or at least pushes you closer to that point). I enjoy it most on Gondorian Spearman, doubling down on the damage, however other suitable characters such as Beregond or Boromir certainly exist. Outside of direct damage decks, I pretty much only ever consider this if I run Beregond and can therefore expect it to be free, not really willing to pay the 2 resources for it in a deck that doesn't synergize around it extensively.

Rating: 6/10

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