Fog on the Barrow-Downs
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth 16 • common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Collector number
- 16
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Marco Gorlei
- Market price
- $0.13
What it does
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is a Spirit and can't attack or block. (It loses all other creature types.)
"Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Fog on the Barrow-Downs was released in 2023 as part of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. The card depicts a pivotal sequence from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, wherein the four hobbits are ensnared by barrow-wights in the ancient hills east of the Shire. It was designed as an enchantment to represent the suffocating, ethereal atmosphere of the barrow-wights' domain, forcing players to discard cards to mirror the disorienting, dreamlike malaise experienced by the protagonists.
The card’s artwork was illustrated by Igor Kieryluk, who focused on capturing the cold, ghostly dread of the fog-covered landscape. By utilizing a muted, spectral color palette and emphasizing the oppressive geometry of the ancient stones, Kieryluk aimed to evoke the classic high-fantasy aesthetic associated with Middle-earth. Upon release, the card was well-received by players for its thematic accuracy and its functional role as a disruptive control piece within the set's Limited and Commander formats.
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