and even so much of its history is known only to a few." Gandalf (Shadow of the Past) The Lord of the Rings follows Frodo's journey to Mount Doom with Sauron's Ring, and we wanted to pay tribute to the Ring by creating a one-of-one unique Magic card
It's even more unique when considering how infrequently deals with artifacts
While you aren't getting fetch lands and shock lands, there are actually a lot of playable (and even rare) lands in the set
Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell
Yes, the cards you draw will always be lands and yes, no matter how well you shuffle your deck after, you draw another land way too often because variance hates you
Tom Bombadil is one of the most interesting Lord of the Rings cards spoiled so far, a five-colour MTG Commander that works with Sagas, sort of giving them a variant of the MTG Cascade mechanic