I love finding cards with alternate costs that are as simple as revealing a card from your hand, because those cards are just begging to be broken
The best part of these is that not only are they pretty easy to complete, but they also have quite handsome rewards, being 24 Pack Hourglasses or 24 Wonder Hourglasses each
This is the "vanilla" decklist: Rebuilding the deck is basically the usual process - remove ETB tapped lands, substitute in "better" aka typed duals, more basics (yes more, most precons have unnecessary non-basic duals, and then run cards like Kodama's Reach and Fertilid, such that they can quite easily run out of basics to search for.) Focus on the core aspects or the deck - getting +1/+1 counters out on small creatures and spreading them around, then leveraging the growth in +1/+1 counters via varied abilities to turn small creatures into big fatties
They are encountered several times during the Lord of the Rings trilogy as they hunt for the Ring-bearer, including at Weathertop where they stab Frodo Baggins before being chased off by Aragorn
2024-07-26 In the rare case where the creature doesn't have the offspring ability when it enters, the ability won't trigger even if you paid the offspring cost.
[11] This card was originally only given out to players who won at rock-paper-scissors in an event at a Japanese tournament in 2019
