Note: It’s important to remember the Tales of Middle-Earth set is explicitly based on J.R.R.

But, in this Lord of the Rings Universes Beyond set, it gives us more than enough information to predict which characters from Lord of the Rings each creature type will represent. In a regular Magic set these creature types might not give us much information about which characters they represent. In it, he revealed 10 of the many legendary creature types we can expect to see in Tales of Middle-Earth.

Mark Rosewater, head game designer on Magic: The Gathering, released his pre-spoiler season blog post, giving vague hints as to what players will find in the upcoming set. Spoiler season is upon us and kickstarting the Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth comes a few hints from one of Magic’s most prolific game designers.