lord of the rings card list mtg Top 10 Most Expensive Cards The Lord of the Rings:

The main effect of Ochran Assassin is forcing all of your opponent's creatures to block it, allowing all of your other creatures to deal as much combat damage as possible

While it does cost two life to cast instead, this is a small price to pay for perfect information on your opponents hand

Helix is nasty either in decks that apply pressure to race Burn, or in decks that try to stabilize until bigger threats hit the battlefield

Kairi is a Dragon in spirit only, giving the kind of interaction that decks like Arixmethes love

Rushing River (Invasion/Planeshift/Apocalypse) Why bounce just one creature when you can bounce a second for the cost of a land

For instance, the blitzy Death's Shadow that sometimes appears on MTGO, going down to perilously low life totals behind Leyline protection