Magic: The Gathering

Art Series: Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth

186cards measured at daily market closes. Prices here are each card's typical market price, not live listings. As of 2026-07-06.

Measured activity

Samwise the Stouthearted Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)made the set's biggest measured move, +60% to $6.05. 15 cards broke away from the set's shared move over the measured window, quieter than most Magic: The Gathering sets (8.1 per 100 cards vs. a 26.6 median). 9 moved up, 6 moved down.

How Magic: The Gathering sets usually behave

Value concentrates hard: across 393 measured Magic: The Gathering sets, the single top card typically holds about 8% of a set's total card value.

New sets have typically eased about 23% more than the market overall within 30 weeks of release, fastest in the first few weeks.

Named moves in this set

The set's largest single-card departures from its own shared move.

  1. +60%Samwise the Stouthearted Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$6.05 2025-02-17
  2. +45%Gandalf the White Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$4.85 2025-03-10
  3. +34%Sol Ring Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$4.72 2025-03-31
  4. -31%Witch-king of Angmar Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$4.63 2024-10-28
  5. -28%Cavern-Hoard Dragon Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$5.60 2025-08-04
  6. +26%Heroic Intervention Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$3.84 2025-04-28
  7. +22%Lord of the Nazgul Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$4.07 2025-05-26
  8. -21%Nazgul Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$3.92 2025-02-17
  9. +20%Sauron, the Dark Lord Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$4.60 2024-07-01
  10. -20%Aragorn, King of Gondor Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$3.26 2025-08-18
  11. +16%Commander's Sphere Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$6.20 2024-05-20
  12. +10%Gandalf, Friend of the Shire Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature)$3.45 2025-04-14

Source: daily market-close consensus prices. Sets with live listing pages carry those separately, this page never mixes the two.