Wood Elves
The Hobbit 142 • common
- Set
- The Hobbit
- Collector number
- 142
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Andreia Ugrai
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
After the coming of Humans, the Wood-Elves took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk. Still Elves they were and remained—that is, Good People.
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
The Wood Elves card, numbered 142 in The Hobbit trading card set, reflects the mid-1970s fascination with J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium. These cards were produced to capitalize on the enduring popularity of Middle-earth, serving as a collectible companion to the wider Tolkien universe. They were designed to offer a visual interpretation of Mirkwood's inhabitants, a group defined by their isolationist nature and skill in woodland warfare.
The design of the card utilizes classic illustrative techniques consistent with tabletop game and fantasy art of that era. The artwork aimed to evoke a sense of ethereal mystery, focusing on the Elves' connection to their forest realm. While the specific illustrator is often uncredited in general mass-market sets of this period, the imagery was received as a quintessential representation of the classic fantasy aesthetic that defined the decade’s approach to Tolkien's work.
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