Lake-town Lookout
The Hobbit 18 • common
- Set
- The Hobbit
- Collector number
- 18
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Irina Nordsol
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
When this creature dies, recruit. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.)
"Look! The lights again! Last night the watchmen saw them start and fade from midnight until dawn. Something is happening up there."
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Lake-town Lookout was released as part of the 2014 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug expansion for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game by Fantasy Flight Games. The card was designed to represent the atmospheric setting of Esgaroth, the human settlement built on Long Lake, during the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s narrative. Its inclusion in the set allowed players to mechanically engage with the location’s role as a strategic point for monitoring threats approaching from the Lonely Mountain.
The illustrative work for the card was created by artist David A. Nash, who captured the grim, utilitarian architecture of the lake-dwellings under a brooding sky. The design reflects the game's focus on thematic immersion, emphasizing the precarious nature of the settlement's defense. Upon release, the set was well-received by the gaming community for successfully translating the tension of the middle chapters of The Hobbit into a cooperative card-based format.
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