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
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
(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
10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion An Eldrazi Counterspell "Lord" A massively powerful Eldrazi legendary creature that has a mana value of 10, this card is not going to be winning any tempo battles
After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.) Paradigm (Then exile this spell
That said, this is still a fun card that many collectors will want to get their hands on
