Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Middle-earth is Magic: The Gathering's first full set of the Universes Beyond (cards based on other intellectual properties) that the game has seen
As we talked about before, the issue with Gyruda, Doom of Depths is that, discounging a ramp spell on turn two, it locks you into only playing one spell for the first three turns of the game
Each part of this is cute, and then you put it all together
Responses online have ranged from the pragmatic calls for a nerf, attempts (largely in vain) to come up with counter decks to the downright furious, with one particular Reddit thread simply titled: "WE GET IT YOU LIKE THE MEWTWO EX DECK!!!" Overall, the consensus seems to be that once you see a Ralts popping up in the bench behind a Mewtwo, you might as well concede
You can pile on more combat steps with Combat Celebrant and Karlach, Fury of Avernus