THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Gathering [Spoiler]

I’m a big fan of this set! It looks amazing! One thing though, it feels like Galadriel’s current ability is more green that it is blue. Being able to look at the top card of your deck is green and blue, but the second ability seems a lot more green. But that’s just my two cents.

Keep up the good work!

Looking good. I noticed that Bard still has a typo. Should be "its controller"

Hi, everybody.

The set is awesome! I liked all the art and cards. Keep doing this great job!

Although, I just became aware of your work this week. I would like to comment on a few things about some cards. I am a big fan of Lord of the Rings books and films, and also MTG. I am very fond of the color philosophy of magic and all the characteristics of each color. Having this in mind:

- Did you considered making Gandalf a white creature? I mention this because white is the color o order, peace, and collectiveness, which is exactly what Gandalf is trying to bring to Middle-Earth. Instead, the Gandalf I saw was blue and red. Blue didn't bother me as much, but the red did. Red is the color of impulse, chaos, passion. These characteristics do not fit Gandalf well. If had to do a Gandalf card I would make it mono white.

-I believe that the purpose of Gandalf was to bring peace to Middle-Earth in form of guiding, councils, and advice for the fellowship. So, making Gandalf dealing damage when he enters the battlefield is conflicting to me, don't you agree? I think that the key feeling for Gandalf is hope.

- One more thing. Gandalf died when he defeated the Balrog, so I would change the way he transforms, for something like this "When Gandalf the Grey dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control at the beginning of your next upkeep as Gandalf the White".


Please, I loved your work, I am not asking for you to change anything. What I am trying to do is just doing positive criticism, because I believe all of us are fans of Lord of the Rings. And sorry for any mistake I have made in my english.

Hi galva94

Now that I know what was your idea behind the choice of red, it makes more sense to me now. Having the Hobbit as a perspective made me change my mind about the color.

And I also didn't realize that you added white the to planeswalker side, sorry kkkkk, I didn't see it.

And I agree with you about making him a suicidal card, it makes more sense to transform him. Making him to literal would not necessarily make him more flavourful.

I still have some question, more out of curiosity:

- Why did you make the mudborn ability blue and black? Instead of red and black?

- Why did you add a blue adventure to Treebeard? For me, he is one of the most mono-green creatures there is (and he is indeed a mono-green, just the adventure is blue). Is it because of the water from the river? For me, the act of destroying the dam was to protect Fangorn against Saruman. Basically what they did was to destroy all goblin/orc and all the machines around Isengard. Why not do something along the lines of "Destroy all creatures with toughness 4 or less" (which would be something related to treefolks in general) or "Destroy all artifacts and enchantments" (which would be related to all the machines in Isengard)?

Is it you that did all this work? I am not sure if the Universe Beyond product will be good, I am still doutfull, but if they do half of the job you did here the set will be awesome. Congratulations.

When I designed the set I wanted to create something playable and draftable: something more than just a bunch of LOTR characters. So I defined five color combinations and design a playstyle for each of them. One of the factions was the Isengard one. Since I reckoned that Saruman itself is a very character I went for the "blue black orcs" faction. I ended up giving the mudborn ability to it, because the other ability, Merciless, implies a "sacrifice theme" and fit more well the other evil color combination, the Mordor one, which is .

The adventure of Treebeard ended up blue for no particular reason, actually. I wanted to use the concept of "Dam destroyed = exile tokens and counteres" because it gives a sense of "relief" to me, and it's kinda flavourful because it destroyes all orc tokens as well as remove the -1/-1 counters (in the set there are no +1/+1 counters btw). The effect was to be put on a rare, for obvious reason, and I opted for treebeard. Other color options could be black or probably green.

The video you linked is infact really interesting, I wish I watched it a year ago (altough I ended up happy with my choices). A couple of my color choice could be slightly different from the personality of the characters, but again: this is mean to be a playable set, so you have to keep a certain number or cards in each color combination and possibly make each character in the faction he/her belong. For example, I couldn't throw in the set a random white/black card when there are no faction supporting it in the limited environment 

We saw blue zombies in Innistrad, so why no blue orcs in this set?   (To be fair blue is part of the color faction, but there are not mono orcs)


I used the planeswalker template with an unproper use of the "Gozilla bar". In the recent version of the set that I'm going to post soon, tho, the fortress have been completely redesigned as artifacts instead of planeswalkers, due to the mixed review the current design gathered 

The template I used is called Mainframe Walker - M15 Planeswalkwers and I think it comes with the mainframe MSE. 

Hi guys, I updated the set file and the card gallery for this set! I feel like I'm really approaching the moment where I can print this whole set and call it done! The latest update includes:

• Entirely new fortress cards
• Change in the Legendary Land cycle (now they are adventure/lands!)
• Some common/uncommon balances
• New frame for multicolored sagas and tokens!

These days I'm planning to perform the last testing, and then print everything!