mtg lord of the rings card kingdom Barad-dur | the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Foil | Modern you may discard your hand The Lord of the Rings

It seems quite apparent that The Ring was designed for the Commander format, where multiple copies cant (easily) show up

He's a strong killer of stuff and drawer of cards

Then I made the card legendary so that you could not have more than one in play at once

Mono-Black Aggro sets up to win the late-game by getting ahead in the early-game so that your opponent cant simply race your recursive threats and is instead forced to interact with them

They were 2/1 for WW or BB, had protection from the opposite color and could be pumped or given first strike

Long anticipated and expected, Dual-Ink cards ended up not having a particularly huge impact on the meta, with most decks running only one of them