Because a huge draw of these LOTR commander decks is the setting themselves, I'm doing something special with this round of upgrades: on top of my regular upgrade guide I will also be providing a LOTR-only upgrade path using only cards from the LOTR set (the main set, box toppers, and cards from other precons) so people looking to keep their decks 100% LOTR-themed can still do so
Amazing synergy here: discard, card draw, ramp and Minotaur Tribal synergy
Whats nuts is that this card can very easily just cost two green mana to cast, since you can remove +1/+1 counters to shave off two of the ten generic mana in its mana value for each one you remove
This is a solid trick that can definitely do some work in aggro decks
Some enemy Pokmon can transform some Pokmon in your squares into others (usually, by Pokmon that do not deal a lot of damage to them, like an Electric-type Pokmon summoning some on your field to counter your ultra-effective Rock-types)
Sleeving hides a lot of minor variance, which is one reason sleeves are basically mandatory once youve been burned by a single bent corner