card list mtg lord of the rings LotR Ring Frame Showcase Cards – Full The Lord of the Rings:

all let you react when your opponents see you as "shields down" and they'll tend to overextend

As long as you keep another creature or two and play some extra lands, the +1/+1 counter doubling goes nuts and makes the math really difficult to oppose in combat

Rising Waters was the core of the last top level Prison deck, using overpriced versions of several components to gain favorable or even match-ups against everything else in the format

You dont choose to activate it, so modular is not an activated ability

It plays very well with almost every aggressive creature in Standard and even with cards like Gideon, Ally of Zendikar