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[[Gimli]]—almost always {{Card|Gimli, Bearer of Grudges}} or {{Card|Gimli, Feared Axeman}}—can bring a lot to a Rainbow Wounding deck. The main benefit to having him is | [[Gimli]]—almost always {{Card|Gimli, Bearer of Grudges}} or {{Card|Gimli, Feared Axeman}}—can bring a lot to a Rainbow Wounding deck. The main benefit to having him is {{Card|Preparations}} and {{Card|Slaked Thirsts}}. Not only is Slaked Thirsts a powerful card, placing two wounds for the cost of one exertion, you don't need to keep Gimli healthy to use it. You can make sure any excess healing (for example, from a [[sanctuary]]) won't go to waste by using it to place Slaked Thirsts on Preparations, and Bearer of Grudges with {{Card|Answer to All Riddles}} has a deep wound pool and is unlikely to take any unexpected wounds against many Shadow sides. Any extra copies of Preparations won't go to waste either, since they can be used as a (weak) direct-wounding card. If you draw Slaked Thirsts, you can play it when you have exactly three other cards in hand to quickly lose then regain initiative for the other cultures' initiative [[condition]]s. Like {{Card|Shadowplay}} above, Slaked Thirsts is a powerful tool for stymieing obnoxious [[hate]] cards like {{Card|Grima, Chief Counselor}}, {{Card|Grima, Wormtongue}}, or {{Card|Ulaire Enquea, Lieutenant of Morgul}}. Compared to Slaked Thirsts, the {{C|Dwarven}} wounding cards are fairly anemic. {{Card|Quick As May Be}} is cheap and basically free, so it's worth finding space for sometimes. {{Card|Baruk Khazad}} can be useful, but it isn't as strong as Slaked Thirsts and can't easily be replayed. {{Card|Here Lies Balin, Son of Fundin}} is very strong when it works, especially against {{C|Moria}}, but is a [[dead card]] against decks that don't use [[orc]]s and won't help against many large, dangerous minions. | ||
The next most-important reason to bring Gimli is {{Card|Shoulder to Shoulder}}. If you're bringing {{Card|Legolas, Greenleaf}}, the two of them can share their vitality pool for Greenleaf's exertion ability or Preparations. As with the {{C|Elven}} contingent above, adding in {{Card|Elrond, Herald to Gil-Galad}} gives them a powerful source of healing every single turn, at the cost of generating some [[twilight]] in the [[Maneuver Phase]]. | The next most-important reason to bring Gimli is {{Card|Shoulder to Shoulder}}. If you're bringing {{Card|Legolas, Greenleaf}}, the two of them can share their vitality pool for Greenleaf's exertion ability or Preparations. As with the {{C|Elven}} contingent above, adding in {{Card|Elrond, Herald to Gil-Galad}} gives them a powerful source of healing every single turn, at the cost of generating some [[twilight]] in the [[Maneuver Phase]]. |