Like cards in our previous bonus sheets from The Brothers' War and Strixhaven: School of Mages , these cards aren't Standard legal but can be played in your Wilds of Eldraine drafts and formats in which the cards are currently legal
Tales of Middle-Earth is designed to bring LotR fans into MTG , after all, and it's understandable that newer players prefer more streamlined and easy-to-handle matches to get comfortable with the game
Whether that's a good thing or not, I'll leave it up to the reader, but having games progress and end in improbable, redundancy-ignoring ways sounds pretty delightful to me
Its also one final opportunity for players to activate instant spells and abilities, following the stack system as normal
Or, the player may use a card with Magic: The Gathering Menace to attack a weaker one
This set is the first to be released with a one-of-one serialized card