Elves are the best at going wide with tokens, ramping substantially, and pumping each other up as other elves enter (looking at you, Marwyn, the Nurturer)
It offsets the loss from your previously played card dying and eventually pays for the Haruspex itself
That last ability is potentially huge card advantage, so youll want to surround Sauron with other ways to be tempted by the ring
Okay, wow, look at that artwork for Thought Lash
And given that ones a basic land (even if it only appeared once on the common sheet, leading to it being equal to a rare), theres really not much argument of reprinting cards kills the value of older versions of the cards. Its more reprinting cards can hurt the value of older versions of cards if their value isnt tied to collectibility/scarcity. The Solution I and Star City Games are in favor of abolishing the Reserved List