Many collectors also appear to want to have a copy of each card from this set out of their passion for The Lord of the Rings, driving prices even higher
Cool as these cards were, Okiba Reckoner Raid in particular, none made any kind of impact in Pauper
They share a spot because Terminate has a more limited range of targets (only creatures, basically), but it only costing 2 mana makes it easy to cast without having to leave too much mana untapped in your turn
One of the founding fathers of Magic writing and theory was Eric Taylor, who defined it like this: "Card advantage is any process by which a player obtains effectively more cards than his opponent." If that definition seems a bit nebulous, it's because card advantage can take such a tremendous variety of forms
The idea behind this was to keep the group from being led by simply following the more experienced designers
It can also make your card look like it has some heft to it