Magic The Gathering's Lord of the Rings Cross Over Is The Set Of My Dreams
When I sat down across from fellow MMORPG.com contributor Jason Fanelli during Summer Game Fest Play Days 2023 to play a smidge of Magic: The Gathering, I wasn't expecting to get so jazzed about the cards in my hand.
Starter decks aren't always the greatest set of cards out there, but they do a good job of helping to teach the core concepts of a set to newer players. With the upcoming Lord of the Rings crossover for Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast was highlighting the card game ahead of its 30th anniversary this year. As the only non-video game at the show, it was definitely a unique setup, with the chance to sit down, take a breather, and as the Professor is fond of saying, shuffle up and play.
I've covered the cards from the set in recent previews. As someone who has been playing Magic off and on since the Portal set was released in the late '90s, as well as our resident Lord of the Rings fanatic, there was no way I was going to pass up the opportunity to finally see this set in person.
Choosing the Sauron starter deck (because for some reason Wizards doesn't have a starter deck with Blue in it...), I went head to head with the forces of Mordor against the food-nomming powers of Butterbur and the forces of the Free Peoples of Middle-earth.
<p dir=«ltr» lang=«en» xml:lang=«en»>Guys, can confirm in person: NO WINGS #MTGxLOTR #SummerGameFest pic.twitter.com/jYBdBTKV49Some unlucky draws, coupled with a few sorceries that saw me eat my own life total while Jason's Aragorn and Arwen deck pumped out live-giving Food tokens saw him take his third victory at the show, but that didn't matter to me. I was playing my favorite card game set in the universe that shaped so much of my life the last twenty or so years.
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