Originally conceived as part of a cycle of boons (cards which give you three of something for one mana), Richard Garfield was convinced by friends that Ancestral Recall was too powerful to be a common
It also has some very expensive cards, which are the topic of today's article - I'll be covering the most expensive MTG LOTR cards
The Illumineers trove has 8 of the sets packs, so at around $100 you are paying about $12 for the rest of the stuff
Based on this experimenation, it seems like the Sapphire/Steel deck is more aggressive , with new cards boosting Strength and increasing Resistance, while the Amber/Amethyst deck is more about mitigating and removing damage
Yes, it can get you the extra turn and generate the card advantage that can inevitably get you closer to a bonafide win condition, but it still can whiff, too, and many times just delays dying by a turn