Deck Themes The Hosts of Mordor focuses on the villains of the LOTR series, with goblins, orcs, and dragons, and all the named baddies like Grma, Saruman's Footman and Saruman, the White Hand
With that in mind, we pulled the ancient spellslinging sorcerer's trick of "playing every ramp spell we could find", combined with some defensive creatures that will survive our various PyroclasmPyroclasms and ping opponents whenever we do anything
It doesn't copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on
In a lot of ways, counter magic in Limited is just bad removal, because you have to have the mana up to use it at the exact right time, or it doesnt do anything
When Wizards of the Coast developed Revised , they decided to remove some cards that were present in Beta and Unlimited