Palantír of Orthanc // Palantír of Orthanc
The Hobbit Art Series 37 • common
- Set
- The Hobbit Art Series
- Collector number
- 37
- Rarity
- Common
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Chris Seaman
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
The Palantír of Orthanc card is part of the Art Series collection released alongside the 2023 Magic: The Gathering set The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. These cards were designed to highlight the illustrative work commissioned for the set, featuring full-art versions of cards without the typical game-mechanical text overlay. This specific piece focuses on the Seeing Stone used by Saruman, intended to evoke the dark, seductive, and all-seeing nature of the object as described in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
The artwork for this card was rendered by artist Livia Prima. In her design, Prima aimed to capture the ethereal, swirling energy contained within the obsidian sphere, contrasting the cold geometry of Orthanc with the chaotic, corrupting influence of Sauron. The series was met with significant praise from both the gaming community and Tolkien enthusiasts for its commitment to high-fantasy aesthetic standards and its reverence for the iconic imagery of Middle-earth.
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