As is often the case, the nice and clean examples found on blogs turn out to not work very well in the general setting - when the camera angle is not directly above the card, the background is not uniform color, the contrast between the card and the background is not optimal, the lightning conditions in the photos vary, etc
Your Magic/Lord of the Rings journey can go one of two ways after the starter set: either you try to chase as many cards in Tales of Middle-earth as possible, or you try to dig deeper into Magic yourself and start using the cards youve acquired to build your own decks
Of course I think youre from Grixis, so you probably dont know much about either of those things anyway
English editions later added non-holo versions of holo rares, increasing the total set size
There are multiple Hareruya shops across the Japan, such as newly opened Tokyo and Tochigi locations, that specialize in Magic The Gathering