Merry

Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took have been a half of the hobbits since the Fellowship of The Ring (the other half obviously being Frodo and Sam). Over the years Decipher made a great many of Merry cards some (Merry, Friend to Sam) being much better than others (Merry, Horticulturalist)

Fellowship Block

In the Fellowship block there were 3 Merrys (and 3 Pippins) to go round. Merry, Horticulturalist ) was praticaly useless unless (for some reason) you really wanted Farmer Maggot. Merry, From O'er the Brandywine was a lot better. With a sword he had Gandalf strength skirmishing capabilities as well as some skirmish cancelling.

Towers Block

In The Two Towers Merry and Pippin are taken captive by orcs and dragged into the forrest of Fangorn to get away they must use some dissapearing acts of their own to hide. Merry, Learned Guide was the basics. Exerting the Ring-bearer to discard Merry may seem absolutely terrible at first. But when you combine it with healing such as Sam's Pack and some Hobbit catching such as Treebeard, Earthborn you can pretty consistently get him onto Treebeard and up into the fellowship again. Merry, Impatient Hobbit also does some discarding but in the regroup phase instead. "Discard Merry to heal a [Gandalf] companion" isn't too bad considering there are many ents that exert to skirmish.