The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth/Card comparisons
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth/Card comparisons
Cards from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth as compared to cards from earlier sets.
Strictly better
- Arwen's Gift is strictly better than Touch of Brilliance.
- Bitter Downfall is strictly better than Chill to the Bone, Consign to the Pit, Eviscerate, Impale, Launch Party, and Reach of Shadows.
- The Black Breath is strictly better than Cower in Fear, Festergloom, Sick and Tired, and Stench of Decay.
- Captain of Umbar is strictly better than Teferi's Protege,
- Claim the Precious is strictly better than Asphyxiate,
- Entish Restoration is strictly better than Roiling Regrowth,
- Fire of Orthanc is strictly better than Craterize, Demolish, and Tectonic Rift.
- Glorious Gale is strictly better than Essence Scatter, False Summoning, Preemptive Strike, and Remove Soul.
- Gollum's Bite is strictly better than Disfigure.
- Isolation at Orthanc is strictly better than Chronostutter..
- Lash of the Balrog is strictly better than Bone Splinters.
- Lorien Revealed is strictly better than Tezzeret's Ambition.
- Many Partings is strictly better than Lay of the Land.
- Mirkwood Spider is strictly better than Moss Viper, Sedge Scorpion, and Tajuru Blightblade.
- Nasty End is strictly better than Altar's Reap and Skulltap.
- Rally at the Hornburg is strictly better than Dragon Fodder, Forbidden Friendship, Krenko's Command, and Ral's Reinforcements.
- Rising of the Day is strictly better than Fervor.
- Revive the Shire is strictly better than Nature's Spiral.
- Sam's Desperate Rescue is strictly better than Disentomb, Raise Dead, and Return to Battle.
- Saruman's Trickery is strictly better than Cancel and Mystic Denial.
- Shelob's Ambush is strictly better than Coat with Venom.
- Shire Terrace is strictly better than Terminal Moraine, Warped Landscape, and the Shards of Alara panoramas (Bant Panorama, Esper Panorama, Grixis Panorama, Jund Panorama, and Naya Panorama).
- Wizard's Rockets is strictly better than Terrarion.
- Wose Pathfinder is strictly better than Druid of the Anima, Harvester Druid, Quirion Elves, Quirion Explorer, Sylvok Explorer, Urborg Elf, and Woodland Mystic.
Vanillas and French vanillas
- Grey Havens Navigator is strictly better than Naga Eternal.
Strictly worse
- Lash of the Balrog is strictly worse than Annihilating Glare.
Functional reprints
- Escape from Orthanc is a functional reprint of Wings of the Cosmos.