Learn to Play: Magic: the Gathering's The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth! 

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Thank you for explaning, i thought it sounded wrong how they used it!

Yeah pretty significant.

Solid advice from a fellow player. Every ability can be googled if you dont understand it. If the ability or how to use it isnt entirely clear, just come to an agreement with your dad on whats fair and makes the most sense and play on. Dont get hung up on the small things.

First thing I bought with the cards

Me too! especially since i just started collecting them because of that amazing artwork, i want to beable to preserve it for that, but im really itching to learn the actual game lol😶. It all seems so complicated tho😪. I have Yugi Oh and pokemon too lol, never learned to play any if them LOL

i would recommend you to play MtG Arena online for this cause. It is free and it explains the basics very nicely. however the real cardboard game is better.

They also forgot that the Oliphaunt would have given +2/+0 and trample to another one of the attacking creatures. This would have put him down to 2 life, not 4. Additionally, the artifact bow that gets brought into the game next has the text "when comes into play, attach to" which means that it could be immediately equipped without needing to pay the additional 2 mana.

He forgot to put tokens on the named orc also when he put tokens on the orc army.

@@spearshaker7974 You are right.

Yep!

Booster packs. You can buy booster packs to supplement your decks

I don't mean to nitpick here but a few minutes later the guy playing the selesnya deck cast generous ent when he simply did not have enough lands

@@joegibson1566 I thought this at first, too, but no, he had the six lands he needed available. He moves one of them (a tree) off the screen before turning over the remaining five.

Yes, you can! Easy to learn (but difficult to master). Go for it, it's super fun at every level of gameplay!

Yeah. I have to work so much just like everybody else, I have no idea about MTG….. or friends.

Yeah, we totally botched it. Apologies!

@@NerdoftheRings Hey, the important thing is that you had fun!

They are playing wrong. Mauhur doesn't get the +1/+1 counters, he only makes the orc army gets an additional +1/+1 counter every time. And they just forgot the Rose ability.

Because some pictures aren't really lore accurate etc..

Because it's not Lord of the Rings. It's leftist fanfiction.

It's a travesty of fantasy history. What do you think Tolkien would say of his entire lifespan of work being reduced to a stupid card game. You must be insane to praise this terrible game. 😮

@@PlanetEarth3141 I guess you could say I have abandoned reason for madness

They can if they have eagles...

Yeah, we totally botched it. Sorry about that!

Nvm, I found out they were already in the game before they were even on sale physically lol Just re-downloaded lol

It’s actually a 90% like ratio. I think a lot of folks using the extension are upset that Aragorn is black on the cards.

It really grinds my gears when people make things like this or rings of power and fans are not upset by it. The author of the characters you know and love is rollin in his grave, but you're cool with it

This. This right here.

A healthy take

Can you explain what exactly has been changed? I think the flavor is generally an A+ for the most part.

@@jordanb7304 the only thing that jumps to mind is they made some characters described as light skinned, dark skinned, like Aragorn, for example. Otherwise everything seems fairly faithful to Tolkien’s writings.

​@@jordanb7304to him and other "fans" they changed the most important thing about their ideal fantasy world: no black people.

@@jordanb7304 the moment Christopher Tolkien dropped dead everyone started to pick at his father's legacy like vultures. It doesn't matter if it's one obvious change or several, from TV shows to.card games they have no right to justifiably do such a thing. Tolkien was very clear about how he felt on canon work. And you know it. After Rings of Power, any change should be regarded as a threat waiting to have more change in the future, and all for ends that have nothing to do with Tolkien. Even Wizards of the Coast and the creators of Rings of Power are very clear as to why they're doing with this in their explanations, and it has nothing to do with him. The answer HAS to be no. This is wrong.

@@ReformedSauron I just don't agree with the ideology of always being unchanging and always being unmoving. Its not productive. I think there can certainly be a time and place to be extremely accurate in regards to history and truths so I would never say its not useful or not to be respected. I just think there are certain contexts in which that is more appropriate and more effective. With that said adaptations of the original works should probably be as faithful as possible within the constraints of whatever medium something is being adapted to. But to expect nothing to change with something that is being adapted to a different medium is no feasible, there must be some amount of changes, somethings left out or changed to fit whatever this new thing is better and that's okay. Its not trying to be the same thing, it is something different and new inspired by the original. The original will always be the original and nothing new can take that away from it. I am by no means a Tolkien or Middle Earth expert, I just really appreciate the depth of his worldbuilding, his process, and the uniqueness to his stories and world. I think its awesome and inspirational. But I'm not an expert. I think the MtG adaptation did a lot of things right and actually showed me things I've never heard about or seen and I think that awesome and valuable. It gives me reason to explore more about the original works and world. Rings of Power felt a lot worse in execution to me for example.

Baseless racism

Aragorn is fake no matter how he is represented on art. Get a life.

@@Richard_Nickerson There is no such thing as racism anymore because losers like you keep misusing the word racism. That aragorn is still fake since aragorn is not a black guy.

Have you played the game? Personally, I've had a blast playing it.

@@NerdoftheRings magic the gathering, as a game. Is good. The fact that they decide to get woke with the designs, is a mockery to Tolkiens works. Like rings of power. I would think you would be against it, seeing that you are such a fan of the lore and where it came from.

@@jordanarellano8058just don’t play those specific cards.

@@Case2_0 if I ever do pick it up, I probably wouldn't. Who knows if it would negatively impact my game.

I'll be playing it with my brother but I won't be personally supporting WotC by buying it for myself. Amazon and WotC can suck it.