As the product architect for The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth , I've been involved since our earliest playtests and focus groups and today bring you the insider perspective on the cards, card treatments, and where you can find them in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth products
Designing Around Afterlife While most creatures should only enter Afterlife through this Ascend mechanic, there could be just a few exception cards that can move to the afterlife right away to spice things up, maybe like these: The set should also have sacrifice effects such as Bone Splinters and Altar's Reap , so that you could sacrifice a creature with Ascend and then move it to the Afterlife if it's needed there
Drafting Drafting is a limited format that consists in eight players taking turns to pick from booster and passing to their neighbors
My focus today is on the five CB slots with rares/mythics, because each CB has a pair of slots for Showcase uncommons, one foil and one non-foil
Challenge promo cards, like Cinderella and Rapunzel, are both playable and artistically stunning