MTG Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Middle-Earth Set Review – How Magic Captures The Ring
There have been several attempts at creating a card game based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit over the years, with mixed results. The time has finally arrived for a truly entertaining adaptation of Tolkien’s work in card form, as The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set does an incredible job of fitting the famous heroes, villains, and locations into the framework of Magic: The Gathering.
It bears mentioning off the bat that the developers did their best to make these iterations of the familiar characters feel unique while also sticking to the content from the books. This means that none of the original content from the Peter Jackson movies appears in the set, nor are there characters from any of The Lord of the Rings spin-offs or adaptations, so don’t expect Talion or Goth Shelob to make an appearance. The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth is strictly by the book, which includes characters who are often skipped in adaptations, like Erkenbrand and Tom Bombadil.
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How The Lord Of The Rings Fits Into The Colors Of MagicAll Middle-earth characters and lands have to fit across the five colors of Magic: The Gathering. The different factions and characters have been spread across the various colors rather than restricting them into single categories. This is how The Lord of the Rings characters are placed into the colors:
White – Gondor, Rohan, Eagles, Fellowship members, the Shire. Blue – Elves, Gondor, Isengard. Black – Mordor, Gollum, Isengard, the Balrog, Nazgul. Red – Dwarves, Moria, Rohan. Green – Hobbits, Elves, Rangers, Ents.Not to mention the set’s abundance of multi-colored cards,
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