If you've never heard of this card before, that'll probably be because it was part of The Big Score: that strange collection of cards tacked onto Outlaws of Thunder Junction after Wizards of the Coast discovered what a disaster Epilogue Booster packs truly were, and excised them from all future MTG sets
8 Frodo, Sauron's Bane Frodo is the famous hobbit hero from The Lord of the Rings , an unassuming and humble Shire native who volunteered to carry the One Ring to Mordor to destroy it
If an effect allows you to spend mana "as though it were mana" of any color or type, that allows you to spend mana you couldn't otherwise spend, but it doesn't change what mana you spent to cast the spell
That makes it easier to build a strong deck over time
total value , why dealers cant pay the full market price, and why the bulk portion often means lots of cards but little money
However, there are better cards like Jace, the Mind Sculptor or Snapcaster Mage that offer more versatile and powerful effects for a similar cost