The Lord of The Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Scene Boxes - All 4 for Magic: The Gathering

3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars | 150 ratings

Price: 98.99

Last update: 06-04-2024


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COLLECT ALL 4 SCENES—This bundle includes all 4 The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Scene Boxes, with 1 Aragorn at Helm’s Deep, 1 Flight of the Witch-king, 1 The Might of Galadriel, and 1 Gandalf in Pelennor Fields
IMMORTALIZE EPIC MOMENTS—Each Scene Box contains 6 foil Borderless cards with art that combines to showcase one of the most epic scenes from The Lord of the Rings
PUT YOUR ART ON FULL DISPLAY—While each Scene Card is a playable Magic card, this box also contains 6 Art Cards featuring the same art without any game text obscuring the view, allowing you to appreciate the full scene in all its glory on the included display easel
EXPLORE WITH SET BOOSTERS—Designed for a fun pack-opening experience, get 3 Set Boosters full of more The Lord of the Rings-themed cards; every pack contains 12 cards from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set, including 1–4 cards of rarity Rare or higher
MAGIC MEETS THE LORD OF THE RINGS—Experience the beloved story of The Lord of the Rings with the strategic gameplay of Magic: The Gathering, facing off against opponents in thrilling magical battles
CONTENTS—4 Scene Boxes, each with 6 Traditional Foil Borderless Scene Cards, 6 Art Cards, 3 Set Boosters, and a paper display easel

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Top reviews from the United States

Alyssa C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Lord of the Rings Magic Cards
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2024
My husband loved them and all of the references they make to the books/movies!
PowerOfMind97
5.0 out of 5 stars You know what you are buying
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2023
First off, everyone knows foils have their Pringle problem. Rating this product bad for such a thing is stupid and has nothing to do with the product itself.
This product offers cool and flavorful cards you cannot get elsewhere. Some packs, and some poster decorations. I ordered it knowing what I would get, wanting to make each one into a commander deck.
If you do not want the cards themselves to make a deck then this product is not for you at the price point they are at.
Otherwise this is a great product
I question if it should be as much as it is, hoping in future products at this price point maybe have a couple more packs in each for value.
I would rate this a 4/5 mainly due to the price but because people rate this a 1/5 for the Pringle foil cards I will rate 5/5 to try to offset their stupidity.
Don’t just blindly buy product, see if you actually want it, and sleeve or double sleeve your damn cards and there is no issue.
Tony
1.0 out of 5 stars Pringled scene cards, and repeat-galore in set boosters
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
Getting this out of the way first - you'll often see people say not to buy packs, and to buy singles instead with the reasoning being that you're going to "waste" money looking for specific cards that you could've just bought as a single. This is *not* my reasoning when I say not to purchase this product.

tl;dr if you already have quite a few LotR cards, these boxes aren't worth it at all, even if you like opening packs instead of buying singles. The only time I'd say these boxes *may* be *kind of* worth it is if you don't have any LotR cards, you won't mind getting quite a few duplicate cards across your packs, and you also really want the scene cards.

Story time:
I saw this bundle, saw some of the scene card spoilers, and decided that the bundle might be a good buy - get some cool new cards, and get some set boosters to open for some fun as well. Many people will say "don't buy packs, buy singles". I often enjoy opening packs, so even though it's not an efficient way to get cards I want, I still buy packs anyway. Well, I was disappointed on both fronts when I opened these boxes.

Pringling/scene card issues:
First source of disappointment was the amount of "pringling" on the brand new scene cards I was excited for. For anyone not aware, pringling refers to the curling effect that happens on foil cards printed on certain materials. What I call moderately pringled cards usually come flat in the pack, and will curl over time. Severely pringled cards will come slightly curled straight out of the pack, and then will continue to curl over time. These were the most curled cards straight out of the pack that I've ever seen. I also noticed that on some of the cards that were the most curled such as my Nazgul Battle-Mace and Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress, there's some slight misprinting as well with mana symbols in the card text not being centered inside of their "bubble". I'm not sure if this is directly related to the pringling or not.

Speaking of scene card disappointments, in addition to the pringling, the printing of some of the artwork (like Arboreal Alliance and Galadriel, Light of Valinor) combined with the colors present in the art, and the amount of foil allowed to show through make the finished product look washed out to the point of almost not being able to see the art.

Non-random packs:
The second source of disappointment was with the "set boosters" included with the boxes. I put quotes around set booster because it didn't appear that the boosters had the amount of randomness that they are marketed to have. If this is how set boosters are going to be made from now on, Wizards has officially made me lose interest in opening packs.

Each box comes with three packs, meaning in the bundle, there's a total of 12 boosters. On the back of the foil wrappers for boosters, there's fine print that details the chances of getting various different rarity cards. These set boosters say the following:

May contain these cards: LTR 1-286, 302-345, 405-447; LTC 1-8. Includes a combination of 1-4 card(s) of rarity Rare or higher (2: 27%; 3: 3%; 4: <1%) and 1 Art Card. Also includes 3-7 Uncommon, 3-7 Common, and 1 Land Cards. 1 non-Art Card and non-Land card of any rarity is Traditional Foil. Foil-Stamped Signature Art Card replaces Art Card in 10% of Set Boosters. List card included in 25% of Set Boosters. Traditional Foil Borderless Mythic in <1% of boosters. This product does not contain The 1 of 1 Ring card (available in EN Collector Boosters only).

This may lead consumers to believe that, although there's some bias toward specific rarity for a set number of cards in the pack, they should be fairly randomly put together to give a good sampling of cards from the set. This was not at all my experience. As seen in the photos, I had multiple packs that not only had repeats of a specific card, but had entire duplicate sequences of cards (the same cards in the same order found in multiple packs). The worst offending sections of the packs seem to be the commons and uncommons, although that's based on simply looking through the cards since I haven't done any math of what I got from the packs.

Although I don't have a picture to share, I can also anecdotally add that a friend of mine also bought this bundle, and I had at least one sequence of cards that was the same as a sequence I remember them having. Unfortunately, they got their bundle before me, so their cards were no longer in the order that they opened them in by the time I was opening mine.

All of this to say, in a 12 card booster, if 3-4 of the cards are seemingly predetermined (not talking about only the rarity - the actual specific cards selected), then that makes 25-33% of the pack essentially decided with little to no randomness involved. I'm onboard with opening packs for the sense of novelty as I go through them. This is not a desirable experience at all. I'd even go so far as to call it false advertising, and am considering reporting them for violating the Amazon ToS as a seller on the platform.
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Tony
1.0 out of 5 stars Pringled scene cards, and repeat-galore in set boosters
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
Getting this out of the way first - you'll often see people say not to buy packs, and to buy singles instead with the reasoning being that you're going to "waste" money looking for specific cards that you could've just bought as a single. This is *not* my reasoning when I say not to purchase this product.

tl;dr if you already have quite a few LotR cards, these boxes aren't worth it at all, even if you like opening packs instead of buying singles. The only time I'd say these boxes *may* be *kind of* worth it is if you don't have any LotR cards, you won't mind getting quite a few duplicate cards across your packs, and you also really want the scene cards.

Story time:
I saw this bundle, saw some of the scene card spoilers, and decided that the bundle might be a good buy - get some cool new cards, and get some set boosters to open for some fun as well. Many people will say "don't buy packs, buy singles". I often enjoy opening packs, so even though it's not an efficient way to get cards I want, I still buy packs anyway. Well, I was disappointed on both fronts when I opened these boxes.

Pringling/scene card issues:
First source of disappointment was the amount of "pringling" on the brand new scene cards I was excited for. For anyone not aware, pringling refers to the curling effect that happens on foil cards printed on certain materials. What I call moderately pringled cards usually come flat in the pack, and will curl over time. Severely pringled cards will come slightly curled straight out of the pack, and then will continue to curl over time. These were the most curled cards straight out of the pack that I've ever seen. I also noticed that on some of the cards that were the most curled such as my Nazgul Battle-Mace and Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress, there's some slight misprinting as well with mana symbols in the card text not being centered inside of their "bubble". I'm not sure if this is directly related to the pringling or not.

Speaking of scene card disappointments, in addition to the pringling, the printing of some of the artwork (like Arboreal Alliance and Galadriel, Light of Valinor) combined with the colors present in the art, and the amount of foil allowed to show through make the finished product look washed out to the point of almost not being able to see the art.

Non-random packs:
The second source of disappointment was with the "set boosters" included with the boxes. I put quotes around set booster because it didn't appear that the boosters had the amount of randomness that they are marketed to have. If this is how set boosters are going to be made from now on, Wizards has officially made me lose interest in opening packs.

Each box comes with three packs, meaning in the bundle, there's a total of 12 boosters. On the back of the foil wrappers for boosters, there's fine print that details the chances of getting various different rarity cards. These set boosters say the following:

May contain these cards: LTR 1-286, 302-345, 405-447; LTC 1-8. Includes a combination of 1-4 card(s) of rarity Rare or higher (2: 27%; 3: 3%; 4: <1%) and 1 Art Card. Also includes 3-7 Uncommon, 3-7 Common, and 1 Land Cards. 1 non-Art Card and non-Land card of any rarity is Traditional Foil. Foil-Stamped Signature Art Card replaces Art Card in 10% of Set Boosters. List card included in 25% of Set Boosters. Traditional Foil Borderless Mythic in <1% of boosters. This product does not contain The 1 of 1 Ring card (available in EN Collector Boosters only).

This may lead consumers to believe that, although there's some bias toward specific rarity for a set number of cards in the pack, they should be fairly randomly put together to give a good sampling of cards from the set. This was not at all my experience. As seen in the photos, I had multiple packs that not only had repeats of a specific card, but had entire duplicate sequences of cards (the same cards in the same order found in multiple packs). The worst offending sections of the packs seem to be the commons and uncommons, although that's based on simply looking through the cards since I haven't done any math of what I got from the packs.

Although I don't have a picture to share, I can also anecdotally add that a friend of mine also bought this bundle, and I had at least one sequence of cards that was the same as a sequence I remember them having. Unfortunately, they got their bundle before me, so their cards were no longer in the order that they opened them in by the time I was opening mine.

All of this to say, in a 12 card booster, if 3-4 of the cards are seemingly predetermined (not talking about only the rarity - the actual specific cards selected), then that makes 25-33% of the pack essentially decided with little to no randomness involved. I'm onboard with opening packs for the sense of novelty as I go through them. This is not a desirable experience at all. I'd even go so far as to call it false advertising, and am considering reporting them for violating the Amazon ToS as a seller on the platform.
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Paul Westrich
5.0 out of 5 stars No issues
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
It was a gift. I think it’s overpriced for cards— but the person receiving it was thrilled and thinks it’s well worth it!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder????
Garrett
4.0 out of 5 stars Decent, but slightly disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2023
First, for those who complain about the art, you could see what the art was before purchasing. WoTC was very upfront about what would be on the cards and made the art easily viewable. I’m not sure what others expectations were for the easel, but it was right in line for the price, I thought. It’s not as though they will be sending wood or metal displays, so I’m not sure how everyone seems surprised by that.

The curve on the cards is pretty annoying but not the worst. Heavy books on top of them solved it. I liked that there were also art cards for display so I can play the normal cards in my mtg decks. The caliber of cards were good, they went well in my decks and had strong effects. The packs are the same as they’ve been. Sometimes you get good pulls, sometimes you don’t; that’s the game.
Damon
5.0 out of 5 stars LOTR!
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2024
Awesome
David S.
2.0 out of 5 stars Buy it only for the art.
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2024
I love Lord of the Rings and loved what Magic: The Gathering did with the property. As a former player of the dearly-departed Lord of the Rings TCG, I was excited to play with this again. This product produces really nice display art (though the display frames are disappointingly flimsy). If you want the cards to play with, however, they are also available in other products - a fact that was not readily apparent when originally advertised.
Griff
3.0 out of 5 stars Wizards Quality Control At An All Time Low
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023
I was terrified after the last Magic: The Gathering The Lord of The Rings set went so poorly. This time it didn't go great, but all of the issues are on Wizards of the Coast.

Amazon sent one of each of the four scene boxes, sealed in larger cardboard box with WotC, taped up to show the product wasn't tampered with.

Inside, all the cards were all present and intact -no dupes, none missing. Each box had the right number of set boosters, a pack of art cards, and a pack of foils. The foil cards are absolute pringles. In my photo, you can see art cards on the left and foils on the right. The Aragorn set seems to be bent much worst than the rest. The easel for displaying cards is also very poor quality, and you need to open each slot to put a card in - leaving the end result looking pretty sloppy.

I can't recommend this as a gift or collector's item, but if you want the art cards, the boosters, and the foils, it's... fine.
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Griff
3.0 out of 5 stars Wizards Quality Control At An All Time Low
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023
I was terrified after the last Magic: The Gathering The Lord of The Rings set went so poorly. This time it didn't go great, but all of the issues are on Wizards of the Coast.

Amazon sent one of each of the four scene boxes, sealed in larger cardboard box with WotC, taped up to show the product wasn't tampered with.

Inside, all the cards were all present and intact -no dupes, none missing. Each box had the right number of set boosters, a pack of art cards, and a pack of foils. The foil cards are absolute pringles. In my photo, you can see art cards on the left and foils on the right. The Aragorn set seems to be bent much worst than the rest. The easel for displaying cards is also very poor quality, and you need to open each slot to put a card in - leaving the end result looking pretty sloppy.

I can't recommend this as a gift or collector's item, but if you want the art cards, the boosters, and the foils, it's... fine.
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