Magic: The Gathering 's upcoming Universes Beyond set, Tales of Middle-earth , is a crossover with legendary fantasy series The Lord of the Rings
While the card is incredibly oppressive in the format overall, Griefs biggest grievance in the Legacy format was its presence in the Rescaminator deck
Other than that, I would not recommend using this card in a deck, because both moves it has are slow, the retreat cost is really high, and neither move is guaranteed to even do average damage for the amount of energy cards required
Our Leader can go for two high-power attacks, and since our opponent is dropping 8-cost and 9-cost Characters, we can use both Leader attacks to control the board and force the opposing player to have the Counter plays
After all, we went more than a decade without a proper energy commander, so to suddenly have them in two sets was unexpected
The rare in my first pack