Magic: The Gathering recently made headlines as pallets of Modern Horizons 2 cards were found at a local city landfill, estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars:
Well, the excitement doesn’t stop there as someone has purportedly reported that they found some foil sheets of the upcoming Universes Beyond set The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth in the “garbage” on reddit.
The expansion is slated for release to MTG Arena on June 20, 2023 as a direct import from the tabletop version with no Alchemy rebalances and going straight into the Alchemy and Historic formats.
Interestingly enough, they have been found in different languages so the translations by the commenters on reddit are also provided below. While we cannot confirm that these are real, it’s always interesting to speculate!
Before you view the cards, remember: These are unofficial, unconfirmed leaks from a third party source so view at your own risk!
Gollum the Conspirator
Legendary Creature ~ Halfling Horror
Whenever Gollum the Conspirator attacks, look at the top two cards of your library, put them back in any order, then choose land or nonland. Either opponent guesses whether the top card of your library is of the chosen type. Reveal the card. If it guesses right, Gollum is removed from combat. If not, you draw a card and Gollum can’t be blocked this turn.
2/1
Aragorn and Arwen, Married
4GW
Legendary Creature ~ Human Elf Noble
Vigilance
Whenever Aragorn and Arwen, Married, enters the battlefield or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. You gain 1 life for each other creature you control.
3/6
Aragorn, King Elessar, wedded Arwen Undómiel, and the tale of their long and laborious wait came to an end.
Frodo, Sauron’s Bane
W
Legendary Creature ~ Halfling Citizen
W/B W/B: If Frodo, Sauron’s Bane is a Citizen, it becomes a Halfling Scout with base power and toughness 2/3 and lifelink.
BBB: If Frodo is a Scout, it becomes a Halfling Rogue with “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game if the Ring has tempted you four or more times this game. Otherwise, the Ring tempts you.
