While the rarity of the card is likely one of the main reasons for collectors mad dash, it also plays into the larger cultural phenomenon surrounding The Lord of the Rings
Because it makes you sacrifice a creature, its largely inferior to Eladamris Call, but you can only run one of those
No two sites give you the same figures, and Pokmons various Wikipedia pages are longer than those of the Napoleonic wars
(The one graded as a 5.5 was the same one shown by Boozer in 2006.) The first prerelease Raichu analyzed by CGC was sold by Mike Boozer in 2006 to a card collector, who then sold it to a collector named David Persin in 2009 for $10,500
However, Orcs arent a widely supported creature type while Goblins are, so it makes this cards substantially stronger
You can use Thought Lash to keep you going in just about any situation and then get rid of it before it makes you exile your whole library