Prerelease is your players' first opportunity to get their hands on the newest Magic: The Gathering release and explore what the set has to offer. Prerelease Packs contain everything a player needs to be guided through deck building and begin facing off in epic one-on-one matches.

Return to Middle-earth and experience a timeless tale's grand beginning! Set out from The Shire with Bilbo, Gandalf, and their company of Dwarves in pursuit of fortune, adventure, and the dreadful Dragon Smaug. Amass and recruit your armies in the shadow of The Lonely Mountain, then battle it out to claim the treasures of Erebor!

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Contents:
• 6 Magic: The Gathering® | The Hobbit™Play Boosters
• 1 Traditional Foil Rare/Mythic with a year stamp
• Spindown life counter

Play Boosters Breakdown: 
• 14 Magic: The Gathering cards
• May contain these cards: HOB 1–248
• 1–3 cards of rarity Rare or higher (2: 26%; 3: 2%)
• 3–5 Uncommon cards
• 7–9 Common cards
• 1 Land
• 1 Card of any rarity is traditional foil
• Foil borderless mythic rare in <1% of boosters
• Traditional foil land replaces a land in 20% of boosters