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MTG fans may have just discovered something worrying about The Hobbit set

Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man crossover set from last year is widely regarded as one of the game’s worst in recent memory. One of its biggest flaws was its considerably smaller size compared to other major Universes Beyond crossovers. Following new reveals at MagicCon: Las Vegas 2026 of the upcoming crossover with The Hobbit, due out in August, it’s become apparent that the second J.R.R. Tolkien Universes Beyond set will also be worryingly small. While this wasn’t always the case in Magic, there are numbers in the bottom-left corner of every card face that indicate that card’s place in a given set. In recent years, the full art basic lands come immediately after the main set cards, with plains coming first. As first noticed by Draftsim, the number for the full art plains in The Hobbit is 194, indicating there are 193 cards in the main set. Most full sets have almost 100 cards more than that, with 2025’s Final Fantasy set being one of the largest at 309. This puts The Hobbit as barely larger than Spider-Man (188) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (190). While I didn’t engage much with the Spider-Man set, I can say that pack-opening fatigue is real with TMNT. I’ve opened up dozens

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MTG fans may have just discovered something worrying about The Hobbit set

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MTG fans may have just discovered something worrying about The Hobbit set

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