When the ring is on Frodo, you get to draw up to 3 cards per attack via the combination of rings and abilities
Itll draw you countless cards, and is playable outside of sea-creature decks, too
Monastery Mentor proved itself to be one of the best finishers in older formats like Vintage, where it's easy to chain together cheap spells and cantrips to potentially make a lethal army of prowess tokens in just a single turn, which is certainly strong but still doesn't really feel broken to me
Combustion Technique Okay, I know what I said in Ozais Cruelty, but this might see main deck play
When the next restricted list announcement rolled around, a pretty unheard of number of cards were simultaneously added to the Vintage Restricted List: Crop Rotation Doomsday Dream Halls Enlightened Tutor Frantic Search Grim Monolith Hurkyls Recall Lotus Petal Mana Crypt Mana Vault Mind Over Matter Mox Diamond Mystical Tutor Tinker Vampiric Tutor Voltaic Key Yawgmoths Bargain Yawgmoths Will This list included most of my deck (every card but Force of Will, Defense Grid, and City of Brass would end up restricted at some point), as well as lots of other cards that were part of other broken decks that were feared to be the next to rise up
Its an Uncommon around a dollar, the very definition of a cheap, curve filling role player, and a reminder that Fabled still has budget gems worth pulling forward