Bunch of Collecting Questions

[CategoryOneGames.com]

Okay so I'm trying to get all my sets together and what not.  I've got a lot of questions and would appreciate the help.


The thing that is confusing me is that they started doing RF and O series - what was the ratio per box of them?  I'm having a hard time seeing what the difference was between some of the cards, especially in the Black Rider set.

I'm guessing on the later sets that these get extremely hard to get. 

Why did Decipher make the Expanded Middle Earth and The Wraith Collection as part of the numbered sets.  They should have just been part of the 0P sets, at least I think they should have - anyone else agree.

Now I noticed on Early Promo's (ex 0P16 Faramir, 0P17 Eowyn) had a foil and regular version.  Now how many of the early Promo's did they make as Foil vs. non foil?  Did they make foils of all the early promos?    Is the 0P14 Aragorn in non-foil form too or just Foil.  I've never seen a non-foil version.

On the LOTR Database it would be nice to have the Tengwar cards listed on there in a separate section for themselves as sets. 

How hard is it to find the later Promo cards?  I've never even heard of the D and W series cards or the Saint Patrick's Day cards.  I looked on eBay for them and none are listed, how Rare are those SPD cards.  How about the Faramir AFD card - how rare is that?

Do we know of any cards that we do not have pictures of?

It appeared as if Decipher printed a lot of cards near the end and didn't hand out many of them.  Do you guys think there are more that just haven't been released?


Man I'm just amazed at how much just random cards they released at the end, you would have thought this was the UFS game. 

[MR. Lurtzy]

Okay so I'm trying to get all my sets together and what not.  I've got a lot of questions and would appreciate the help.


The thing that is confusing me is that they started doing RF and O series - what was the ratio per box of them?  I'm having a hard time seeing what the difference was between some of the cards, especially in the Black Rider set.

I'm guessing on the later sets that these get extremely hard to get. 

6 RF a box and 1 Masterworks a box.

On the LOTR Database it would be nice to have the Tengwar cards listed on there in a separate section for themselves as sets. 

Yeah, that would be a lot better.

How hard is it to find the later Promo cards?  I've never even heard of the D and W series cards or the Saint Patrick's Day cards.  I looked on eBay for them and none are listed, how Rare are those SPD cards.  How about the Faramir AFD card - how rare is that?

The AFD and W cards are online only, as are the high D cards (besides 13 and 14). The 0D1-8 are physical cards, as are all of the P cards. The higher P promos are very hard to find and 127 has only 1 known copy.

Do we know of any cards that we do not have pictures of?

Yep. The 7 TF cards and 0D13 and 0D14 are not in the database.

It appeared as if Decipher printed a lot of cards near the end and didn't hand out many of them.  Do you guys think there are more that just haven't been released?

Probably. The 0D13 and 14 have only recently surfaced.

[AMFSOOK]

How hard is it to find the later Promo cards?  I've never even heard of the D and W series cards or the Saint Patrick's Day cards.  I looked on eBay for them and none are listed, how Rare are those SPD cards.  How about the Faramir AFD card - how rare is that?

The AFD and W cards are online only, as are the high D cards (besides 13 and 14). The 0D1-8 are physical cards, as are all of the P cards. The higher P promos are very hard to find and 127 has only 1 known copy.

And its not for sale

But yer i found the promo listings to be the worst to track down and sort out.
Here is what i have to date:

0D1-8, 0D13+14.
0P1-129
0P Foil Print of - 16,17,18 and 22.
0P79 Kiss Print Varient
4M1 Reg Sized Ring Release Schedule
Over Sized 0M1/0M2 (origional print).
Over Sized 1M1/1M2 (reprint) - 10M1
Tengwar Print of Sting 4R100 and Anduril 7R79
2003 DGMA Tournament Schedule
2004 DGMA Tournament Schedule
Test Print Card + All Black Test Print Card
Deck Builder Lists: Horn Of Boromir, Fireworks, Book Of Mazarbul


No idea what those 7TF cards are though..... someone fill me in are they printed or online versions?

[MR. Lurtzy]

Actually, there's 9 so far:

http://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/index.php/topic,2933.0.html

[AMFSOOK]

Myself Personally,

Anything that was not printed in all languages is not classed as official.

It seems these cards "may" be only printed in a few languages - Not English.
If this is the case then i definitly wont be looking for them as part of my collection.

Can you imagine having to collect the entire LOTR set in every language, just to claim you have a copy of every card. Ill stick to 100% English versions. Thankyou.

[MR. Lurtzy]

They are foil versions of cards that had previously never been foiled. That makes them unique, regardless of their language.

[MuadDib85]

Can you imagine having to collect the entire LOTR set in every language, just to claim you have a copy of every card. Ill stick to 100% English versions. Thankyou.

But imagine if you managed to get 1x copy of all english cards.. It would drive me nuts not having these last nine foils.. (If they are indeed the only non-english 'extras').

[AMFSOOK]

Each to their own i say.

There needs to be a line drawn IMO, and ive set mine.

If Decipher wanted to print off some limited edition cards in one language and not in another, it was probably done for a certain reason other then collection purposes. Otherwise they would have reprinted in all languages.

[CategoryOneGames.com]

The AFD and W cards are online only, as are the high D cards (besides 13 and 14). The 0D1-8 are physical cards, as are all of the P cards. The higher P promos are very hard to find and 127 has only 1 known copy.

Okay so the W makes sense. 

The AFD card is the Faramir but I saw one end on eBay last night for $15.  So was this actually made or did someone make a home made one. 

You mention that the High D cards are online only but then mention that 0D1-8 are physical, I'm confused there. 

What about the SPD cards, what are they considered?  Were they online only, I have never seen physical versions on eBay. 

Wow the Lower D numbered cards (Arwen and so forth) are really broken, they could never of actually been printed right?  Well I just saw one on eBay for $300 so I guess they were - AMAZING.  The Eomer is amazing and just says win me the game on him. 

Probably. The 0D13 and 14 have only recently surfaced.

Do we know what the cards were now?

[legolas3333]

as far as we know, 0D1-0D8 along with 0D13 and 0D14 are the only physical D cards

[AMFSOOK]

as far as we know, 0D1-0D8 along with 0D13 and 0D14 are the only physical D cards

That is correct. Any other D cards as far as we all know are not physical versions.

[MR. Lurtzy]

The AFD card is the Faramir but I saw one end on eBay last night for $15.  So was this actually made or did someone make a home made one.  

The AFD is the April Fool's Day card. It isn't real. What you most likely saw was 18R48 Faramir Captain of Ithilien, which was a card produced in the Treachery and Deceit set.

You mention that the High D cards are online only but then mention that 0D1-8 are physical, I'm confused there.

0D1-8, 13 and 14 are real, physical D cards. 0D8 (Cave troll version) -0D24 are online only.

What about the SPD cards, what are they considered?  Were they online only, I have never seen physical versions on eBay.  

Those were online only as well.

Wow the Lower D numbered cards (Arwen and so forth) are really broken, they could never of actually been printed right?  Well I just saw one on eBay for $300 so I guess they were - AMAZING.  The Eomer is amazing and just says win me the game on him.  

I think you're refering to the P versions 0P62-67, not the D versions. As mentioned before, the high D cards were never printed.

[CategoryOneGames.com]

Yes your right.  So they have the same name in the 0P62 - 67 as some of the D versions but not the same text, the text is amazing on those D versions WOW. 

I can see spending a lot of money on the D verions but not the 0P versions, they just aren't that great to play but I'm guessing are super Rare. 

I just find it amazing that Decipher printed so few of some of these cards, when they were in a cash crunch and to print just a handfull of a few cards is something that isn't cost productive. 

[ghhhk]

If I remember correctly, these OP62-67 were cards that were used in the league play.  As you progressed in the league you could spend points to add additional attributes to these cards to make them super powerful.  The printed versions show only the starting attributes.  The buff ones you refer to were the maxed out versions that could be attained after many victories and several weeks of playing.