well you got 35% chance of losing your 2 mp ally to your opponent, so I don't think you'd be using him to hunt opponent down, unless you are Saruman and combine it with an active influence deck. But the -2 could be skipped and chances would be almost equal. Actually the -2 was meant to defend against opponent coming for you
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