I just grabbed the final cards I needed for my Isu, the Abominable(comments welcome!). It started out as a yeti-themed deck but there just wasn’t enough to keep it going so it morphed into a pretty standard snow deck I think.
I am definitely looking forward to trying to get the Thespians Stage -> Dark Depths combo off at the table!
May try again with the yetis in another deck. Not sure it would work, but the theme in my head is “hunting yetis” where you have yetis for beating folks with and other cards creating clue tokens. But yeah, not sure about the synergy yet…
Not LOTR, but I am currently working on a The Mimeoplasm self-mill deck. Main goal is to get creatures with evasive or potective abilities (shadow, protection, fear, indestructible, etc.) and a creature with decent power to make The mimeoplasm come out as the nastiest beater possible. Alt win-con is going to be Thassa’s Oracle since I’m so heavily milling myself anyway. There’s some reanimation in there just to get cards back from the graveyard I might need for the game, but that’s the not the real purpose of it.