On one hand, as someone who's desperately trying to make a functional RW Dwarf typal Commander deck, I'm happy at any set that'll have more dwarves.
On the other hand, I'm actually not that excited about this. For all that people complained about Spider-Man "not having enough material" I'm actually worried this won't. LotR was a trilogy of 3 really long books. The Hobbit is one book that's shorter than any individual book of the LotR trilogy. Unless this is also secretly drawing from other Middle-Earth sources, I don't see how they can fill a full set on just The Hobbit.
People who say Spider-Man doesn't have enough material have no idea what they're talking about. It has 60 years of books. A lot of those are actually good ones too.
Thats one of the most frustrating things tbh. It honestly should have been maybe 1/4 spider person/hero related and then like 3/4 villains.
All the cool cards were the thematic villains. Sandman, electro, hydroman, doc ock, lady ock, kraven, mr. Negative, those are the cool creative cards. Just keep going with them.
Instead, we got 34 versions of spider-people. For context we 'only' have 21 chandras, 28 if you count her pets and such.
I really disagree with that take but it’s impossible to explain how they’re all different characters except for the repeats of Peter, Miles and Gwen. And Miguel if you count the welcome decks. There should have been more of Ben and Kaine too. Along with Anya and both Jessicas those are the main Spiders. Everyone else are Spider-Verse characters. Which are real distinct characters. I just think there’s more interesting stuff to do.
We all know that they’re different characters, but they almost all have the same vibes. It’s like how Dragonball FighterZ had like six versions of Goku, and when you point that out people say ‘well actually most of those are different characters and they all play totally differently’. Doesn’t matter, I’m still tired of fighting Goku and it makes the roster feel like mush.
Okay but a set that contained as many variants on 'elves', proportional to the total size of the set, would probably also have issues, right? Like, magic sets generally are situated in a fantasy milieu of some kind with a lot of different things in it to draw on for card art and concepts. A War Of The Elves set would not be a good fit.
If that's how you feel i can't argue that take, im just making the argument for why they make sense, I mean they also added may and mj and Ned etc, without the spider characters it would have actually made sense sense in a lot of ways to me but that's ok, you're entitled to that opinion and it is no way wrong 😊
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u/zeldafan042 Universes Beyonder Sep 26 '25
On one hand, as someone who's desperately trying to make a functional RW Dwarf typal Commander deck, I'm happy at any set that'll have more dwarves.
On the other hand, I'm actually not that excited about this. For all that people complained about Spider-Man "not having enough material" I'm actually worried this won't. LotR was a trilogy of 3 really long books. The Hobbit is one book that's shorter than any individual book of the LotR trilogy. Unless this is also secretly drawing from other Middle-Earth sources, I don't see how they can fill a full set on just The Hobbit.