May 30, 2023 — The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ Special Treatment Overview

Check out where to find special treatments to guide your marketing efforts for the set release.

May 30, 2023 — The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ Special Treatment Overview

Check out where to find special treatments to guide your marketing efforts for the set release.

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to clarify promotional details.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ may be the most anticipated set release of the summer—and Prerelease will be here before you can blink. Starting June 16, players can head to WPN stores around the world and party like it's Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday.

You'll have players of all stripes visiting your space to figure out how to get their hands on all the incredible cards they've seen online—and today, we'll cover each treatment and share where to find them.

Explore Middle-earth with Full-Art Middle-earth Map Lands

Found in: Draft, Set, Jumpstart, and Collector Boosters

Fans of cartography and map art will be delighted by these full-art map basic lands, evocative of the incredible work of Pauline Baynes, illustrator of one of the first maps of Middle-earth.

Full Art Middle-earth Map Lands


Full Art Middle-earth Map Lands

Each full-art map basic land shows off a different location featured in the stories of The Lord of the Rings and can be found in Draft, Set, Jumpstart, and Collector Boosters—and in Collector Boosters, the Middle-earth Map Land will be a traditional foil.

Covet The Ring with Showcase Ring Cards

Found in: Draft, Set, and Collector Boosters

The Ring Frame showcase treatment is a stylish take on 30 legendary cards, showing off incredible moments in the beloved story.

Ring Frame Gollum, Patient Plotter; Ring Frame Gandalf the Grey; Ring Frame Tom Bombadil

Each Ring Frame treatment has beautiful Tengwar letterform circling the art, and the frame itself is colored to align with the color identity of the legendary card itself, making them aesthetically pleasing additions to any deck.

Discover Realms and Relics Box Toppers

Found in: Draft, Set, and Collector Booster Displays

Each The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Draft, Set, and Collector Booster display includes a traditional foil Realms and Relics Box Topper card inside, a powerful and exciting Magic card with artwork and treatment your players will find right at home with The Lord of the Rings.

Realms and Relics The Party Tree (The Great Henge) and Realms and Relics Valley of Gorgoroth (Wasteland)

There are 30 total Realms and Relics Box Topper cards, each either a borderless mythic rare land or artifact card featuring the set code (LTC) and set symbol of The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Commander cards. These Realms and Relics cards also appear in Collector Boosters, both in non-foil and surge foil.

The Buy-a-Box promo, Lórien Brooch (Trailblazer's Boots), is also a Realms and Relics card, available to your players for purchase of the following:

  • Set Booster Display
  • Draft Booster Display
  • Collector Booster Display
  • Jumpstart Booster Display

Lórien Brooch (Trailblazer's Boots)

Seek the 9 Art Variations of the Nazgûl

Found in: Draft, Set, and Collector Boosters

The nine human kings who each bore one of the Nine Rings for Mortal Men and were turned into undead spirits—the Nazgûl—will also be featured in the set, with nine different art variations for players to find across Draft, Set, and Collector Boosters to add to their decks.

Three sample variants of the Nazgûl card

Above are just a few examples of the art players can find—each of the nine art pieces will exist as variants on the same Uncommon card, which causes the Ring to tempt the player as soon as a Nazgûl card enters the battlefield.

The Ring rules card

Enjoy Gorgeous Art with Extended and Borderless Art Cards

Borderless Art Found in: Draft, Set, and Collector Boosters

Extended Art Found in: Collector Boosters

Fans can enjoy the full-art beauty of locations throughout Middle-earth with Borderless Art Lands like Mount Doom and The Shire.

Borderless Art Mount Doom and Borderless Art The Shire

Extended art cards make a return for The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, allowing players to get a full look at the gorgeous art on each of the cards found with this treatment.

Extended Art versions of The One Ring; Aragorn and Arwen, Wed; and Sauron, the Lidless Eye

Each of these card treatments immerses your players in the story of The Lord of the Rings while they enjoy games of Magic, and our next treatment truly transports players right to Middle-earth.

Relive Beloved Story with Borderless Scene Cards

Found in: Bundle and Bundle: Gift Edition (one of seven), Draft and Set Boosters (five of seven), Collector Boosters (all seven)

Scene cards can be placed next to each other to paint a picture of memorable moments for fans of The Lord of the Rings. Scenes can be made of two-by-two cards, like the iconic moment on Mount Doom found in the Bundle and Bundle: Gift Edition. But that's only the beginning; scenes may be up to six-by-three cards—an epic 18 cards to show an epic scene at that scale.

Battle of the Pelennor Fields Scene with Card Frame Overlay

There are seven total scenes available in June, five of which may appear in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Draft and Set Boosters, with all seven available in Collector Boosters.

In November, four additional scenes (each three-by-two cards) arrive to add to the incredible sights found in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. Keep an eye out for more details later this year.

Wield a Ring of Power with Ring Promotions

The Nine, the Seven, and the Three: Sol Ring Promotion

Found in: Collector Boosters

Your players will be eager to seek Sol Ring, a Commander staple, in a whole new way. Sol Ring cards with art modeled after Elven, Dwarven, and Human rings from the novels, and text written in Tengwar script can be found in Collector Boosters, in both traditional foil and nonfoil.

Elven, Human, and Dwarven Sol Ring variants

The traditional foil versions of these specialized Sol Rings will be serialized—there are 300 Elven Sol Rings, 700 Dwarven Sol Rings, and 900 Human Sol Rings, as those most familiar with the story may have guessed. The nonfoil versions will not be serialized, and there will be 3,000 Elven Sol Rings, 7,000 Dwarven Sol Rings, 9,000 Human Sol Rings.

One Ring to Rule Them All: The 1 of 1 One Ring Promotion

Found in: a single English-language The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ Collector Booster.

Serialized as the only one of one, this is a traditional foil card printed in the Black Speech of Sauron using Tengwar letterforms and can only be found in a single English-language The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Collector Booster.

A Ring-bearer has found the 1:1 serialized The One Ring! You won’t find this exceptional card in packs anymore:

As part of the celebration of this legendary set, we created a card befitting The One Ring—a 1:1 serialized traditional foil version of The One Ring card printed in the Black Speech of Sauron using Tengwar letterforms. Though the "Precious" 1:1 serialized The One Ring has been found, the adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth continues!

Digital Render of the serialized 1 of 1 One Ring

The One Ring (Serialized 001 of 001) is a variant of The One Ring Mythic Rare card from the main set, features a raised gold foil treatment applied to the frame, art, and text written in Black Speech. The Serialized 1 of 1 Ring is not a mechanically unique version; it functions the same way as The One Ring. The Serialized 1 of 1 Ring card is available only in EN Collector Boosters.

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We hope you're eager to share this crossover between Magic: The Gathering and the beloved fantasy story of The Lord of the Rings with your community. If you haven't already, head to Wizards EventLink today and make sure your Prerelease events are scheduled so you can start getting sign-ups from players in your community as soon as possible.

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