Gee, definitely the most useless of the House abilities. The Starks seemed to be always on the end of the goodies queue, I sure hope the AGoT design team try a little harder to allow the Starks to make use of this ability.
What's the point of putting a character back on to the top of the deck where it does very little besides saving the character for a while. Very few effects actually bounce off this ability (I don't even want to talk about the Stark Banner...), and there are so many other ways to protect a character.
Bouncing the character also means you still loses everything on that character - his attachments and more importantly his power, and you still have to pay to get him out of the hand again - not to mention that the whole world knows what you're going to draw from your deck. (Great info for the Greyjoy discard) Why waste a card like the Banner when you can just slap another duplicate on the character you want to protect?
Granted, Stalwart will semi-protect any character from the more permanent killing style such as the Targaryen's burn or "cannot be saved" cards, but it is still limited by the loss of everything that the character in question has on him at the time of death.
I think the Starks will benefit greatly if their attachments, locations or if the Old gods favor it, events, gain Stalwart, then we're talking. At the moment, though the cheap non-unique characters may gain a little bit from Stalwart, by and large this ability is pretty useless, and definitely not there in the league to base any strategy on - a sharp contrast to every other House ability.
Shiver in the cold, Starks, you are sad.
(o.o)
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