Aiming for a flat power level across your cards is ideal for balance and newcomers to the environment you've sculpted.
Compared to the Dungeons and Dragons sets, this feels truer to the experience of the Lord of the Rings than those were for D&D
Thats the bread and butter of reprint logic, right there
Hidetsugu and Kairi ( F, TM, MC, ETB, R ) - Ignoring the ogre demon entirely, Kairi does great work with some deck strategies
Appearing as a promo card in two sizes, Pikachu VMAX generates Energy with Tail Charge, then lets loose with a huge G-Max Thunder attack
(Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.) Utter Distortion Phenomenon When you encounter Utter Distortion, for each nonland permanent, choose a player at random