Each box comes with 36 packs, and with fourteen cards per pack, you get 504 cards per box, plus tokens and art cards
I built a fun +1/+1 counter and enchantment-matters build around Eutropia the Twice-Favored for $32.33
Gev helps keep the pressure on opponents with several abilities that support aggressive playstyles, and it's also a rare typing, with both Lizards and Mercenaries among the rarest subtypes in Magic: The Gathering (at least prior to the last few sets)
Value cards from this deck include Gandalf, White Rider, Aragorn and Arwen, Wed, Galadriel, Gift-Giver, and Bilbo's Ring, cards that see some play in Commander and can be interesting to build around
The second effect is good because it can be removed by chaining it to the opponent's monster's effect, but the effect can't be negate, and it also targets, so it's not bad, but it's not very good either