Just back from the Council of Endor, Gimli presents the following:
Hendolen :: MELE :: Sage/Diplomat Elf :: 2 MP :: 6 mind :: 2 direct influence :: 3/7 prowess/body :: r
Unique. May tap to cancel a detainment attack against his company. +2 direct influence against Elves and Elf factions. Home Site: Minas Morgul
Art by Stephen Graham Walsh
Hendolen is the last of the MELE minion elves to remain unreviewed, and according to some people, he's the best of them. I wouldn't go exactly -that- far, but he's definitely a gem for covert, cancelling decks.
Like the others, he's 6 mind, but at 3/7 he's the weakest and most killable of the three. Given his mind and abilities, he's very vulnerable. He has a built in cancellation ability, true, but not one that's useful against killing attacks. He's a diplomat, and the first thing you should think of when you see that is "Ruse, baby, Ruse!" Oh yeah - that also helps him get factions and stuff. As a sage, he can test rings and play the all-important Voices of Malice, although his own special ability is cooler.
Tapping a detainment attack isn't going to be guaranteed to be helpful against all hazard decks, so you'll want to make sure that it will come up in your own resource pursuits, It's probably most useful in getting rid of the bevy of detainment auto-attacks against covert minions. The southeastern auto-attacks like that are pretty tame and usually big enough to beat anyway, but if you're going to the more-difficult (and potentially more rewarding) southern free-holds, cancellation those attacks is a very important thing to do, and not having to play Not Slay Needlessly to do it is a serious help.
His +2 direct influence is of pretty limited usefulness. He's unlikely to successfully steal an elf away from a hero character, and it's relatively unlikely that an opponent minion will be playing with one of the other elves to go after. That ability has more helpfulness-potential if, with Thrall of the Voice, Hendolen is played by a fallen-wizard. He has by far the most directly influence versus elves available to a fallen-wizard, although with only 2 elf factions and all the cool elves with more than 6 mind, I think there's many cooler candidates for inclusion into f-w decks.
Gimli
Original card review taken from : http://fan.theonering.net/morgulrats/
With the authorization of the webmaster.
The reviewing team consisted of Gwaihir (Chris Farrell), Gimli (Nathan Bruinooge), Ohtar (Charles E. Bouldin, Esq.), Radagast (James Kight), Joshua B. Grace (Beorn), Martijn Steultjens (Fram Frumgarson), Jason Klank (Saruman) and Jeffery Dobberpuhl (Wormtongue)
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