When something is wrong with your deck, you feel it across every turn of a 45-minute session, not just one or two
Its critical to have ways to attack the life total in any Magic deck so that you can win the game
Those effects are particularly good for this deck's stun and shield counters, keeping opposing creatures locked down and your own creatures safe, as well as for blitzing through the strong effects of your saga creatures
9 Gollum's Bite Black should always have a good instant removal spell on-hand, and Gollums Bite is probably the best in Tales of Middle-earth
We decided we really wanted players to be able to play with all these cool characters in Limited
As much as I love Mayael the Anima, I have frustrations with this deck, which Ill try to set aside for the purpose of the analysis here