VSTAR cards come with a pretty hefty HP, but they're not quite as sturdy as a VMAX card
Im not sure what other ideas might have been floated or tested out before the designers decided to pull phasing out of mothballs for a second run
Adds: Cuts: Further Upgrades If you want to stick to LOTR-only cards but don't mind spending extra cash, here's my suggestions on further pickups (the site links the cheapest version but there's also a LOTR version for each of these): Lands: Ancient Tomb, Barad-dur, Mount Doom, Mines of Moria, Reflecting Pool, Rivendell, Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Ramp: Sword of Hearth and Home Draw: The One Ring (obviously) Protection: Lightning Greaves, Mithril Coat Removal: Raise the Palisade, Shadowspear, Swan Song, The Balrog, Durin's Bane Busted: Orcish Bowmasters Two Down, Two To Go
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied $11.84 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied is the first of the new suite of gods, and it has a really unique ability that turns it on half of the time, with another callback to an existing card, this time Bounty of the Luxa
Both are flagship Pixar characters with no prior Enchanted printing, which is driving early demand
