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Dwalin, Weaponmaster
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An efficient first-striking two-drop that becomes a major Equipment payoff, permanently increasing the power granted by every Equipment you control whenever it enters or attacks. It is a high pick for RW Equipment/Dwarf decks but only a solid aggressive creature without gear.
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Gameplay notes
When possible, deploy at least one Equipment before casting Dwalin so its enter trigger immediately adds value. Hone counters improve the Equipment itself, so Dwalin does not need to be equipped or survive combat for another creature to benefit; attack with Dwalin when safe to keep scaling all your gear.
Key synergies
Each Dwalin attack adds a hone counter to Orcrist, permanently increasing the equipped creature's power and making its trample damage—and therefore its Treasure trigger—progressively harder to stop.
Dwalin puts hone counters on every Equipment you control, so Thorin can consolidate those Equipment onto one creature and turn all of the accumulated power bonuses into a much larger removal hit.
Blacksmith supplies an Axe Equipment before Dwalin enters, letting Dwalin immediately add a hone counter to it; the Axe then grants +2/+0, which is especially potent on Blacksmith's double-striking body.
Dáin creates and attaches an Axe for Dwalin to hone, and Dáin's attack trigger gives equipped attackers double strike, effectively applying the Equipment's growing power bonus twice in combat.
Once you have an enduring story, Bifur makes Dwalin's Dwarf-sourced enter and attack trigger happen an additional time, placing two hone counters on every Equipment instead of one.
Each time Dwalin enters or attacks, he adds another hone counter to Sting, permanently increasing its power bonus; Sting's free initial attachment also immediately gives Dwalin a well-sized first-strike weapon.
Equipping Dwalin makes his enter-or-attack ability trigger an additional time when he attacks, putting two hone counters on every Equipment you control. Those counters permanently increase the power granted by Wizard's Staff and your other Equipment.
Each Dwalin attack adds a hone counter to Dwarven Shortsword, permanently increasing the power bonus that can be transferred between creatures as combat demands.
Dwalin places hone counters directly on the Plate Mail, permanently increasing the power bonus it grants; menace then helps convert that extra power into player damage.
Each Dwalin entry or attack adds a hone counter to the Spatula, turning this otherwise modest Equipment into an increasingly large power boost while retaining equip {1}.
Each Dwalin trigger adds a hone counter to The Black Arrow, permanently increasing the power bonus it grants and making its cheap equip cost increasingly threatening.
Dwalin puts hone counters on Mattock whenever he enters or attacks, permanently increasing the power bonus it grants; his first strike also makes the enlarged equipped body difficult to block profitably.
Dwalin entering triggers Kíli's card draw as a Dwarf, while Kíli's free first equip activation after Storied makes it easy to move Dwalin's increasingly powerful Equipment bonus onto the best attacker each turn.
Dwalin repeatedly adds hone counters to your Equipment, increasing the power bonuses of the Equipment that Dwarven Mauler can equip at heavily reduced costs.
Dwalin repeatedly puts hone counters on My Precious, turning its protected unblockable creature into an increasingly powerful clock rather than merely an evasive threat.
The Company can find Dwalin and the Equipment that his triggers improve. Dwalin also enables the Company's lifelink, while his hone counters make equipping the Company into a more threatening lifelinker.
Blinking Dwalin repeatedly retriggers his enters ability, adding another hone counter to every Equipment you control each time.
Returning Dwalin lets you replay him for another hone counter on every Equipment you control, while a kicked casting also produces a 4/4 Bird for his bounced body.


















