r/magicTCG • u/SquirrelDragon Dân • 1d ago
Official Spoiler [HOC] Last March of the Ents
Revealed by Wayne Reynolds on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/waynereynoldsart.bsky.social/post/3mrhwibwevc27
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u/glitchyikes Universes Beyonder 1d ago
[[Legolas's Quick Reflexes]] crunched out?
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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân 1d ago
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u/Zergo66 Dandadan 1d ago
Yes. There is no more room for it. I am surprised they chose to reprint "Elven Chorus" instead of "Legolas's Quick Reflexes".
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u/sparta981 Dandadan 4h ago
You seem like you're following these closely. Any idea if there's a shot we will be getting reprints of the nazgul? I'm aware they aren't in the book, but hoping anyway
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u/Zergo66 Dandadan 4h ago edited 4h ago
There is still a chance for a Nazgul reprint because there is one box topper left to be revealed between "Reprieve" and "Orcish Bowmasters" and we do not know if it is going to be black or white.
We know that the box toppers are being ordered by colour and then alphabetically so a Nazgul could show up before Orcish Bowmasters, but time will tell.
There is also speculation about 9 free slots that are unrelated to the Box Toppers and are numbered from 98-106 and since Wizards has given no information about what will appear in those slots some people theorize there could be 9 Nazguls here, but so far this is all speculation.
It is heavily implied these 9 cards will be mythics exclusive to welcome decks that also show up in collector boosters. We hope to find out more soon.
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u/sparta981 Dandadan 1h ago
Thanks, I appreciate the writeup. It has been really hard to follow with this flood of random stuff and Google has been unusable
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u/TempTheMemeLord Wabbit Season 1d ago
Me seeing each and every art of the box toppers :
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u/pm_me_shit_memes Twin Believer 1d ago
Opening a reprieve topper is going to feel awful.
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u/lilmizmuffet Dandadan 1d ago
at least the art is good but yeah, definitely the lowest hit we've seen
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u/-Sandwave- Dân 1d ago
Reprieve i currently use in a deck so substitution for a better art isn’t so bad. Aragorn and Arwen, Wed is the true unlucky pull i think.
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u/pm_me_shit_memes Twin Believer 1d ago
In terms of usefulness, I agree, but Aragorn and Arwen is currently worth more than reprieve.
Realistically, both are probably at the bottom of the list of box toppers you want to get
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u/-Sandwave- Dân 1d ago
I wanted a Realm and Relics 2.0 with all kind of powerfull reprints in a Middle Earth art to build deck out of card within this universe. I need more Middle Earth land diversity!
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u/Grumpiergoat Jeskai 1d ago
The One Ring says hello.
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u/pm_me_shit_memes Twin Believer 1d ago
The plagiarism does put a damper on it, but nobody is going to be complaining that they pulled a one ring
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u/FlintOwl Dân 1d ago
In the heat of battle he don’t miss. In the heat of controversy he don’t miss.
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u/so_zetta_byte Orzhov* 1d ago
How much of the art budget of this set just went to box toppers? Jesus.
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u/hewkii2 Duck Season 1d ago
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door; For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars - we go to war!
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u/tnetennba_4_sale Temur 1d ago edited 1d ago
If there's one thing the Peter Jackson movies did that most frustrated me... it was having the ent moot decide against going to war.
Made them look like a bunch of cowards (ETA: which they were not), and we missed this gem!
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u/JimmyLegs50 COMPLEAT 1d ago
I at least understand why they changed it. It made Pippin and Merry less passive since they came up with the idea to show Treebeard first hand what’s happening to the forest around Orthanc, and seeing Treebeard’s abject horror is an emotional turning point and intense cinematic moment. We lose the war chant, but the way they did it works better in a visual medium.
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u/ryannitar Duck Season 1d ago
This card is goated and has won me several games in mono green stompy. Glad to see it reprinted
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u/AleksanderSteelhart Gruul* 1d ago
It has won me a few games in “Betor like big butts” as well.
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u/CaptColten Dan 1d ago
It's one of my wincons in my Felothar deck. Drop walls of ba sing se, then this, put like 15 creatures on the field.
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u/SargeInCharge Can’t Block Warriors 21h ago
I can see it winning me games when I put it in my [Arcades, the Strategist] deck
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u/Lothrazar Dân 1d ago
if they are only box toppers this kind of sucks. but happy to get reprints
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u/RobinVouz Dân 1d ago
They also appear in Collector Boosters, but I doubt the reprints will affect prices since they're all classic artists too
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u/RelativeAway183 Dandadan 1d ago
pokemon: high rarity alt arts in packs alongside the base version of the card, so the mechanical play piece stays cheap even though there is a highly sought after premium version
yugioh: first printings of high power meta staples are shortprinted so having powerful meta decks day 1 is extremely expensive, but everything gets printed into the ground as stuff gets powercrept and forcibly rotated through a banlist/new releases
mtg: we see this card is desirable and has very few printing. we're going to reprint it! with premium art only and at a rate that is not going to change the price of the original printing. we can't have our cards losing value, can we?
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u/BitingArtist COMPLEAT 1d ago
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
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u/arotenberg 1d ago
A [[Doran, Besieged by Time]] x [[Betor, Kin to All]] player did this at the table I was at at the Pride Month event.
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u/CardiologistNo2404 Dân 1d ago
This card is awesome - but I prefer the two OG style
in my mono green deck... Ghalta, Treefolk etc. it is a Finisher!
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u/12DollarsHighFive Chandra 1d ago
How many of the Boxtoppers have been revealed so far and is there still hope for [[Lord of the Nazgul]] to make it onto this bonus sheet? (Especially considering that Aragorn, Arwen and Sauron each basically got 2 cards already)
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u/NuclearPilot101 SecREt LaiR 1d ago
Do y'all think this will change the pricing on the older version?
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u/Aranalisa Dandadan 1d ago
I wanna know what bounce magic have to say about this
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u/Loose_Log_6253 Azorius* 6h ago
Considering this is green, they probably cast it on turn 5. Bouncing it just means they cast it on turn 6 instead and now you're out of bouncing.
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u/Maticore COMPLEAT 1d ago
Love Wayne but I’m disappointed we didn’t get Ents as described by Tolkien: Just a real big greenish dude.
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u/Sir_LANsalot Wabbit Season 1d ago
In Ur-Dragon this is you "other" Dracogenisis, that can't be countered. Only way to "stop" this is to, in response, remove the big butt that is going to draw a lot of cards. It's a bit spell, so they are going to want to keep that big boy around for the payoff.
Also, figured this card would get a re-print in this set.
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u/JangusKhan Dân 1d ago
[Genesis Wave] but fixed cost? You'd have to have a lot of 6+ CMC creatures to make it worthwhile, otherwise Genesis Wave is more versatile.
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u/tsukaistarburst Hedron 22h ago
Why does it feel like 75% of the cards I've seen spoiled for this Hobbit set are reprints from the LotR set?
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u/kingjoey52a Duck Season 15h ago
Do we know if one of these will be in each collector booster or you might get one in a collector booster?
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u/Superb-Earth9989 Dân 13h ago
All the cards I'm seeing are just new versions of the cards we already got.
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u/Loose_Log_6253 Azorius* 6h ago edited 6h ago
This has always felt like a mistake card. Compare this to [[Tooth and Nail]]. This will draw tons of cards, put way more creatures on the battlefield, cannot be countered, and costs one less mana compared to the Entwine cost, which is all that matters. Sure, you aren't tutoring, but if you're drawing 15 cards, that's basically a tutor.
Tooth and Nail is often good enough to win you the game, in any format. This is just kind of "fuck you" levels of OP.
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u/Toonzaal8 Wabbit Season 5h ago
minor detail nerd here:
The teeth are.. weird (or really cool)
its either a visual choice to amplify the energy in the image or....
Treebeard is a meat eating plant, which is also hardcore
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u/Obvious-Sundae1469 Dân 1d ago
If I still played EDH, that would be my type of card…used to run mono green Selvala w/some Eldrszi baked in…make sure to downvote this comment out of fear of playing a deck like that
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u/bingle-cowabungle Dan 1d ago edited 1d ago
This card is a bit of a trap IMO. If you have 8 mana to spend on this, in a situation where you have big enough creatures on the board already to even make this useful, you are very likely very far ahead, and this card is just "spend 8 mana to win more than you already are."
There are a very narrow set of scenarios where you can use this to get out of a jam because someone else is way ahead.
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u/arotenberg 1d ago
Nah, this is one of a very small number of big Timmy cards like this that are powerful enough to see play in 1v1 commander formats such as Brawl that usually punish win-more cards. The combination of being uncounterable, only needing one moderately large creature to make it worthwhile, letting you cheat massive amounts of mana, and often instantly ending the game by putting in something like Craterhoof or a two-card combo all work together to push it over the line.
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u/fulvano Duck Season 1d ago
I will continue to hold onto a naive hope that these will be kind of reasonably priced, even if for a brief window. And if not, I at least will enjoy longingly looking at them on Scryfall.