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Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth
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But.. it's in your name.
landofMordor
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i chose this username in seventh grade and haven't ever changed it, leave me alone(but seriously, "one Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them / in the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie" is an evocative piece of poetry and I was all for that)
This set will have the legendary card type on five different card types. In a set without planeswalkers.
That leaves
Creatures
Lands
Artifacts
Enchantments
Instants
Sorceries
Battles
And Mark Rosewater has said we should not expect to see more battles anytime soon.
My guess is we will see legendary creatures, lands, artifacts, instants and sorceries leaving out enchantments, planeswalkers and battles.
That leaves
Creatures
Lands
Artifacts
Enchantments
Instants
Sorceries
Battles
And Mark Rosewater has said we should not expect to see more battles anytime soon.
My guess is we will see legendary creatures, lands, artifacts, instants and sorceries leaving out enchantments, planeswalkers and battles.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Sweet, then I will guess legendary creatures, artifacts, enchantments, lands, and sorceries. We've never seen a legendary instant, but we've seen six legendary sorceries. It just feels more natural for a sorcery to be legendary than an instant in my mind.
Legendary enchantments make sense. It’s been a while since I read LotR, but wasn’t there some elf magic protecting Lothlorien from Sauron? That could be a legendary enchantment.
I guess that's the water horses in the movie, right? That'd be a cool enchantment
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I think it's more Rivendell that was protected by magic in the sense that enchantments are magic though. Lothlorien was protected by Galadriel, wearer of the white ring, one of the Elven rings of power.
The dark influence of Sauron on the woods around Dol Guldur (when he was gaining strength as "the Necromancer") could also be made into a legendary enchantment imo.
The dark influence of Sauron on the woods around Dol Guldur (when he was gaining strength as "the Necromancer") could also be made into a legendary enchantment imo.
No love for budget Lingering Souls?
as a squadron pick.
So you pick on of the cards and you get both?
Or you pick one of the cards and you get two of each?
Or you pick one of the cards and you get four of each?
I am trying to imagine the squadron. It’s kind of an interesting combination I will say.
landofMordor
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Lingering Souls is... $0.19 right nowNo love for budget Lingering Souls?
so no, no love for this as a standalone
cascading into lingering souls in your BBE/LOTV jund deck when you deliberately run no white sources
MaRo did a Lord of the Rings teaser! I don't have too many specific ideas for these hints since I haven't finished reading the books or watching the films yet, but I am excited for the card that makes a Smaug token! (Let's be honest– it's probably a Saga called "There and Back Again").
MaRo said:
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I'm in for new nonmana ward costs
also we got some fun ones for many power levels (including one that I'm pretty sure will instantly see lots of play in Legacy?):
(stupid durdly blue garbage for like six mana is one of my weak points)
Chris Taylor
Contributor
There are a LOT of cards in this spoiler dump, and a LOT of them make food. There's so many opportunities to add artifacts token stuff with these cards. If that sounds like fun to you, take a deeper look! Here's what stood out to me:
Look I thiiiiink this is just worse than evolving wilds but that's pure gut, and I run Prismatic Vista (and it's like a C+) so I don't need to think to hard about this.
But someone, somewhere just pumped their fist.
This is clean! I don't love 3/1 for 2 as a statline unless it has some level of protection (Adanto Vanguard if you're a sicko, Seasoned Hallowblade or Bladed Ambassador for the rest of us), but this is good text.
Yes I know there is cathar commando, but I wouldn't just dismiss this, 1 mana is a big deal.
Huh any spell you say? That's pretty neato.
This is pretty small though
This aint no abrade. Exile is cool and all, but mandatory divided damage is sideboard material only I think.
Sick art however
I love it. I love it so much, the token is incredible, the flavor is increible, 10/10 no notes.
Also this thing has the opposite of secret reach: secret not-reach!
Man landcycling has been FIRE recently! Look I'm old, I have cast my fair share of chartooth cougars, so I'm easy to impress in this regard, but landcycling is some shit I'd do, and as a result it's surprising to me to see wotc doing it (even in a nonstandard set like this)
Adorable. Probably not good, but if you're looking to maximize dice per card on table, this is your card.
And yeah, the piece de resistance.
At a baseline (assuming this is the only amass card you run, which is probably more likely than not) this is Resolute Reinforcements in black with deal 1 on ETB.
I run aristocrats, so I'm at least looking at most black token cards, and this also happens to snipe off a thopter upto a young pyromancer at best.
AND this happens again if they draw extra cards, so you can get a forked bolt out of this if you time it right.
I will say a buddy of mine brought up that "Amass Orcs 1" sounds incorrect grammatically, but I kinda understand.
When I play this card I'm going to "Amass 1 Orc" but reading the card still feels weird.
Card seems strong, I'm gonna give it a shot because it plays into my themes, but it might just make the cut regardless.
Look I thiiiiink this is just worse than evolving wilds but that's pure gut, and I run Prismatic Vista (and it's like a C+) so I don't need to think to hard about this.
But someone, somewhere just pumped their fist.
This is clean! I don't love 3/1 for 2 as a statline unless it has some level of protection (Adanto Vanguard if you're a sicko, Seasoned Hallowblade or Bladed Ambassador for the rest of us), but this is good text.
Yes I know there is cathar commando, but I wouldn't just dismiss this, 1 mana is a big deal.
Huh any spell you say? That's pretty neato.
This is pretty small though
This aint no abrade. Exile is cool and all, but mandatory divided damage is sideboard material only I think.
Sick art however
I love it. I love it so much, the token is incredible, the flavor is increible, 10/10 no notes.
Also this thing has the opposite of secret reach: secret not-reach!
Man landcycling has been FIRE recently! Look I'm old, I have cast my fair share of chartooth cougars, so I'm easy to impress in this regard, but landcycling
is some shit I'd do, and as a result it's surprising to me to see wotc doing it (even in a nonstandard set like this)Adorable. Probably not good, but if you're looking to maximize dice per card on table, this is your card.
And yeah, the piece de resistance.
At a baseline (assuming this is the only amass card you run, which is probably more likely than not) this is Resolute Reinforcements in black with deal 1 on ETB.
I run aristocrats, so I'm at least looking at most black token cards, and this also happens to snipe off a thopter upto a young pyromancer at best.
AND this happens again if they draw extra cards, so you can get a forked bolt out of this if you time it right.
I will say a buddy of mine brought up that "Amass Orcs 1" sounds incorrect grammatically, but I kinda understand.
When I play this card I'm going to "Amass 1 Orc" but reading the card still feels weird.
Card seems strong, I'm gonna give it a shot because it plays into my themes, but it might just make the cut regardless.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Amass Orcs stacks with Amass Zombies (which all WAR cards will be errata’d to)! Your army will get both creature types regardless of the order you amass each creature type in. I fear we’ll have to make those Zombie Orc Army tokens ourselves though, as I don’t see WotC mixing them up in this set’s Commander decks!
Mono-Green Galadriel is probably going to end up enjoying some capitalism (cube). I also really hope Council's Deliberation is part of a cycle.
I will say, as much as I'm not a huge fan of Legendary Tribal... I do appreciate that Frodo's art makes him look like just some middle-aged guy.
I will say, as much as I'm not a huge fan of Legendary Tribal... I do appreciate that Frodo's art makes him look like just some middle-aged guy.