Thanks to being unveiled at the beginning of Bloomburrows spoiler season, hype around Flubs had time to build, and the card debuted around a respectable $8
I see Blacksmiths Skill as similar to spells like Rebuff the Wicked , but with the added utility of getting around spells that cant be countered or protecting you from things like Boseiju, Who Endures
An ability that triggers "whenever you airbend" triggers after the process described by the airbend keyword action is complete, even if some or all of the actions were impossible
You build up a massive board of modular creatures, then either sacrifice them to Ashnods Altar or Fling to grow other creatures
Art Director Ovidio Cartagena tells me this was one of their very first ideas for the set, saying Middle-earth has such a specific geography, and it is of course one of the genius details of storytelling that influenced a lot of subsequent works in fantasy and science fiction