Collecting Magic: The Gathering® | The Hobbit™: A First Look - Magic: The Gathering

Collecting Magic: The Gathering® | The Hobbit™: A First Look Feature May 1, 2026 Mike Turian Jubilee Finnegan We're returning to the storied lands of Middle-earth and embarking on the journey of a lifetime with Magic: The Gathering® | The Hobbit™! Travel from The Shire to The Lonely Mountain alongside one of fantasy's most beloved (and unexpected) heroes: Bilbo Baggins. There are many songs to sing, friends to cherish, and foes to outwit. Our merry band of game designers and Tolkien aficionados showed off some of their favorite cards from this set at MagicCon: Las Vegas. If you missed the panel, don't worry. We've prepared a hearty meal of card reveals, important dates, and fun facts to help you prepare for this release. Welcome, friends, to this special first look at Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit! Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit releases worldwide on August 14, 2026, and is available for preorder now from your local game store, TCGplayer, Amazon, and elsewhere Magic is sold. Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Set Code: HOB Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Eternal-Legal Set Code: HOC Website: Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Card Image Gallery: Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit MSRPs for Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit will be set as follows: Relive the whimsy and wonder of The Hobbit through the lens of Magic: The Gathering! Each card pulls from the time-honored Tales of Middle-earth, bringing the adventures of Bilbo, Gandalf, and the Dwarves to your games of Magic. Every journey is made better with a friend, so set out with your companions when Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit arrives on August 14, 2026. Explore all the recently revealed cards in the Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Card Image Gallery. The set releases on August 14, 2026, and is available for preorder now from your local game store, TCGplayer, Amazon, and elsewhere Magic is sold. There's no better place to celebrate Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit than your local game store. Join the festivities and earn special promo cards while supplies last. Standard Showdown is your chance to show your Magic skills! The winner of each event will receive a traditional foil Wood Elves promo card with artwork by Ramza Psyru while supplies last. Commander Party events combine the fun of Commander with the captivating world of The Hobbit. For these events, participants will receive a Bilbo, Luckwearer promo card with artwork by Yigit Koroglu while supplies last. Non-foil copies will be available at most WPN retailers, while traditional foil copies will be available at WPN Premium locations. Embark on a quest for great treasures (and a stunning promo card) at Magic Presents: Heart of the Mountain. Participants will receive a traditional foil An Unexpected Party promo card with artwork by Tomas Duchek while supplies last. As long as you aren't chipping glasses or smashing plates, you're sure to be a welcome guest at your local game store's Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit events. We'll share more about these events and other Middle-earth adventures in the future, so keep an eye on DailyMTG and Magic.gg for more details. For those among you who seek treasures worthy of your collection, a hoard of Booster Fun treatments and dazzling cards awaits you in Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit. We showed off a few of these treatments at MagicCon: Las Vegas, but we're keeping a few secrets beneath The Lonely Mountain until closer to the set's debut. Beneath The Lonely Mountain, the fearsome Dragon Smaug lords over his great hoard of treasures. Bring the most infamous of Middle-earth's Dragons to your collection with this gleaming gold Smaug, the Magnificent headliner card. This stunning collectible features a special foil treatment befitting of Dragon Smaug's grandeur. There will be approximately 500 gleaming gold Smaug, the Magnificent headliner cards printed. This version of Smaug, the Magnificent appears only in Collector Boosters. Gleaming gold versions of Smaug, the Magnificent can appear in Collector Boosters of any language, but the card will always be in English. In 2023, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ took Magic: The Gathering to one of fantasy's most beloved settings for the first time. To celebrate our return to Tolkien's mythos, we're releasing 40 borderless Middle-earth classic artist cards. Each of these cards was originally part of The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth and features all-new borderless artwork by a beloved fantasy artist. Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Play Booster box and Collector Booster box includes a Box Topper that contains 1 traditional foil Middle-earth classic artist card. Non-foil and surge foil Middle-earth classic artist cards appear in Collector Boosters. We're bringing the Dwarven language of Middle-earth to a special selection of cards! Our team worked to faithfully transliterate 5 beloved Magic cards into Dwarvish. Each card captures a moment from The Hobbit, such as this Arcane Signet which depicts the mark carved into the door of Bilbo's home. These cards appear only in Collector Boosters in non-foil and traditional foil and always in Dwarvish. Many readers first experienced The Hobbit through a well-loved copy of the novel, and we've brought the art and aesthetic of those classic books to life on borderless book cover cards. These cards feature stylized artwork and a new frame inspired by fantasy novels. Our artists reimagined 10 cards, ranging from stalwart heroes to artifacts of immense power, from Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit. Non-foil and traditional foil book cover cards appear in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Surge foil book cover cards appear only in Collector Boosters. Amass your own hoard of powerful relics with Dragon hoard frame cards. Each Dragon hoard frame card features a special frame inspired by the Dragon Smaug, complete with a missing scale in the red version of the frame. There are 25 Dragon hoard frame cards in Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit. Non-foil and traditional foil Dragon hoard frame cards appear in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Surge foil Dragon hoard frame cards appear only in Collector Boosters. Follow Bilbo and his band of allies across these full-art Middle-earth journey basic lands. Each land features a stunning landscape from The Hobbit, complete with our merry band of adventurers trekking their way across Middle-earth. Non-foil and traditional foil Middle-earth journey basic lands appear in Play Boosters. Each Collector Booster contains a traditional foil Middle-earth journey basic land. "Look at last on meadows green" and return to The Shire for some well-deserved rest. Full-art seasonal Hobbit basic lands depict The Shire throughout the seasons. There are 4 different seasonal Hobbit basic lands, each of which is a Plains. These lands are only available in Prerelease Packs, Bundles, and Gift Bundles. Each Prerelease Pack contains 4 non-foil seasonal Hobbit basic lands. Each Bundle contains 4 traditional foil seasonal Hobbit basic lands. Each Gift Bundle contains 4 surge foil seasonal Hobbit basic lands. Each of these products includes 1 of each different seasonal Hobbit basic land. Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Play Booster box contains 30 Play Boosters and 1 Box Topper featuring a traditional foil Middle-earth classic artist card. Each Play Booster contains the following: Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Collector Booster box contains 12 Collector Boosters and 1 Box Topper featuring a traditional foil Middle-earth classic artist card. Each Collector Booster contains the following: Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Box Topper contains 1 traditional foil Middle-earth classic artist card. Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Bundle contains the following: The Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Gift Bundle releases on September 4, 2026. Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Gift Bundle contains the following: Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Draft Night contains the following: Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Scene Box contains the following: Each Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Prerelease Pack contains the following: Magic's Second Breakfast of Middle-earth adventures will arrive soon in Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit! You can explore all the recently revealed cards in the Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Card Image Gallery. We'll share more about this set in the future—including the Battle of Five Armies Co-Op Kit planned for 2027—so keep an eye on DailyMTG and our social media pages. Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit releases on August 14, 2026, and is available for preorder now from your local game store, TCGplayer, Amazon, and elsewhere Magic is sold.