Cannot wait to get my hands on this. Thank the lord they reprinted some of those full art foils that were only available in those sample packs. Gimme a one ring extender !
Thanks for the opening! ordered a box myself and really looking forward to it! I think it's a bit of a shame that there's guaranteed surge foils though, kinda takes away the special-ness of them. Just like in the past a normal foil was a huge win, now its i've got countless foils laying around that will never ever be used
I love the scroll art style and some of the poster cards are really cool looking as well. I bought the galadriel scene box so i am hoping i will have enough cards to build a casual galadriel commander deck so excited!
I've heard that new foiling process referred to as "Silver Screen". Also, I like the card art better in this set with the exception of the "Secret Liar" looking ones. At least as far as them being tournament legal because they are tough to read.
I think the "there is no chance of pulling the 1 of 1 ring in this pack" was put on was because that 1 of 1 would only be able to be pulled in the regular collector boosters and not these ones, regardless if it was pulled before the release of this product
Love those surge foils. Are they only in the holiday set from LOTR? or also on the normal collector boxes? Hoping to be able to open one LOTR collector set sometime soon on my own channel.
Awesome video my friend. I have been looking into getting a box of this because my lgs just dropped the price on what they have left. Going to for sure now
What you're discussing at around 9:25 is what they call "Silver Foil" which is indeed a new foil type. Glad to see it here before buying into it - I think it looks pretty cool on that old school LoTR art. I'll be trying to pick those all up. The surge foil versions are awesome too - definitely a few extended art surge foils of cards that didn't have extended art foils, or only had extended art foils available in those Commander Sample packs, so possibly big hits for some of those like Radghast. However, the scroll art - honestly I hate it. Maybe that's just me, but it looks like such a cheap variant. It looks like they just paid some intern a few bucks to mock up a new border and put some simple Photoshop filter over the existing art. It makes the card look...fake almost, and the filter really diminishes the art in my opinion. I'm much happier owning the original cards. The band poster variants are neat but for this set they really feel out of place - I'm not really stoked about them. But yea surge foil and Brothers Hildebrant silver foil are really cool additions, and the rainbow serialized cards is pretty cool too.
I don’t care about serials but I like scroll versions and the hildebrandt cards so much that I would buy this… if the price weren’t nearly $2 per card. I guess if the singles are super expensive then it would have been worth it, idk
I feel no need to chase anything, I prettty much got what I wanted first time around, I'll pick some up if it goes cheap enough or maybe do a battle to support the channel, not really even getting fomo at this point.
The new frames are awful. The abrupt cut black bars on the sides of the art look terrible. The art should have extended beyond the scroll, or they should have incorporated a scroll affect on the sides of the art as well so it's more uniform.
hm... I don't know... The only thing I was really hyped for are the freaky 70ies poster variant cards but they seem to be rare as fudge.I think that's a nope for me. thanky for the video as always!
They should have just done this together with the main set. It feels so weird to release this half a year later, so it just feels like a money grab to me.
Not huge on surge foiling. Some look great but most don't. Im not a huge fan of the new frame, mostly into this for three small amount of new cards. Need more wraiths
Yeah this set should have been in December or they should have bumped Ixalan back to early december. That new foiling is called silver foil, it’s basically regular foil but doesn’t cause any basic rainbow effect, it’s just reflective not refractive.
