It would be a very on point deck if "Call for Backup" meant tutoring up creatures that keep your creatures alive, but running a ton of tutors wouldn't really fit the "precon-esque" environment, such decks are too consistent and will just overrun (get it) other precon-esque decks
If an opponent plays a spell to destroy your cards, now it destroys everything it could possibly target
But when I can stop worrying about that and instead rob my opponents deck, I get to be the backstabbing cat burglar Ive always wanted to be, and if my deck sucks, maybe their deck will be better
While the pose is similar to the Pidgeot from Holon Phantoms, this card features much more red, with a background that sets the tone for this card
It locks down creatures with one or less power from untapping
Sauron, the Necromancer is one of two Sauron cards in Tales of Middle-earth that makes great use of the graveyard, rewarding the player for using discard effects, self-mill, and the like to stock up their graveyard with powerful creatures with relevant abilities