Sometimes the rarest cards drop in price because a reprint increases the supply or because nobody uses them anymore
Kellan, the Kid is one of many cast-from-somewhere-other-than-your-hand commanders (what I like to call paradox commanders), and the payoff here is casting more stuff for free
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and even so much of its history is known only to a few." Gandalf (Shadow of the Past) The Lord of the Rings follows Frodo's journey to Mount Doom with Sauron's Ring, and we wanted to pay tribute to the Ring by creating a one-of-one unique Magic card
After people had generally glommed onto EDH as a format, and basically when they told us to start calling it "Commander" and everyone but me and the others at EDHREC did, this card was under $2
Its important not to go crazy on gold cards and mana fixing, otherwise, 5-color good-stuff might end up being the best strategy
