Join your team of glimmers and explore the captivating inklands of Lorcana as you go on a quest to collect valuable lore before it falls into other hands
The extra value you'll generate from blinking Elite Guardmage, Agent of Treachery, and friends (potentially every turn thanks to Thassa, Deep-Dwelling blinking Yorion, Sky Nomad to blink the rest of the team) will almost certainly more than make up for the drop in consistency you'll face from playing more cards in an absolute sense
In the right go-wide deck, such as Elves or Goblins, you can easily get boosts in the +4/+4 to +5+5 range going, too, which are very hard to deal with
The Special Edition was launched a few months after Lord of the Rings proper
Furthermore, although it was technically considered an expansion to Ice Age , the snow mechanic was largely ignored in Alliances , and the direction of both sets was even more divergent before a handful of mechanical tie-ins were added during development