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In short, Galadriel both enables mass minion wounding by healing all the exert-to-wound Home 6 allies every round, and her discount is too much. In shorter, characters are balanced around their costs and Galadriel removing those costs makes them unbalanced. In shorterer, heal bad; choke worse.

To address the Shoulder to Shoulder (1C59)START_WIDGET"'-333e39a7b1b9fc8bEND_WIDGET issue (obsolete though it may be), Galadriel's heal is reduced to mirror Elrond's freshly-nerfed position. She can now heal herself and up to 2 others, which won't affect most decks but should shave just a bit off the top of the mass ally strat.

The discount eventually settled on -1 out of simple pragmatism: every Elf in Fellowship block has a twilight cost of 2, except for Elrond (4) and Lórien Elf (1C53)START_WIDGET"'-44c8481e6f1206b9END_WIDGET (1). -2 would thus be essentially no change, so -1 it is.

(There are additional higher cost Elves in Towers block, but the vast majority remain 2).

Decipher Notes:

This card has no cultural enforcement. The special ability allows a player to play high utility site 6 allies, who also lack cultural enforcement, for free. This level of permanent resource denial undermines the Shadow number curve on sites. Also, when combined with other cards such as Shoulder to Shoulder (1C59)START_WIDGET"'-6ec4992d97247251END_WIDGET, the healing function of this card provides too much utility, both for Galadriel, and other site 6 allies.