The Hobbit: Desolation
The Hobbit: Desolation is a .Secret LairSpecial Magic cards sold by Wizards of the Coast on their own online store for a short time. Most are cards that already exist, given new art by a well-known artist or another franchise. A Secret Lair copy of a card plays exactly like any other copy of it.Open the full glossaryDropOne Secret Lair product: a few cards sold together, usually 4 to 6, often with a foil and a non-foil version. Wizards calls each one a drop.Open the full glossary
Released 5 cards $29.99 at the Secret Lair store
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Every card in this drop
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| Version | Store Price | At the Store |
|---|---|---|
| Non-foil | $29.99 | Sold out |
| Foil | $39.99 | Sold out |
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- Card Kingdom foil $5.99
- Cardmarket €2.00 foil €3.89
- Mana Pool $2.35 foil $2.44
- TCGplayer $3.18 foil $3.26
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- Card Kingdom $22.99 foil $24.99
- Cardmarket €13.26 foil €22.03
- Mana Pool $20.78 foil $23.96
- TCGplayer $23.20 foil $24.90
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- Card Kingdom $6.49 foil $6.99
- Cardmarket €3.83 foil €6.88
- Mana Pool $4.62 foil $5.19
- TCGplayer $4.10 foil $4.80
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- Card Kingdom $14.99 foil $17.99
- Cardmarket €3.90 foil €7.17
- Mana Pool $10.38 foil $13.27
- TCGplayer $11.35 foil $13.19
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- Card Kingdom $3.99 foil $3.49
- Cardmarket €0.74 foil €2.63
- Mana Pool $1.44 foil $2.07
- TCGplayer $1.91 foil $2.91
The Store Price Against Buying the Cards One at a Time
The single-card total is each card's price at TCGplayer on , in US dollars. A total only shows when every card in the drop has a price.
| Drop | Version | Store Price | Cards One at a Time | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hobbit: Desolation | Foil | $39.99 | $49.06 | The store, by $9.07 |
| The Hobbit: Desolation | Non-foil | $29.99 | $43.74 | The store, by $13.75 |
When It Was on Sale
What the Secret Lair store listed for each version, and when it sold out.
| Drop | Version | Price | Status | On Sale | Sold Out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hobbit: Desolation | Foil | $39.99 | Sold out | ||
| The Hobbit: Desolation | Non-foil | $29.99 | Sold out |
Ready-made Decks From the Same World
Wizards also sells a (a ready-made Commander deck) for this franchise. Here they are, along with any cards from this page that each one also holds.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary
4 cards on this page are in none of these decks.
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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17 rulings for 3 cards
Diabolic Intent
Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.
Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.
You must choose a card if there are any in your library.
Dread Return
You choose the target for Dread Return before paying any of its costs, so it's not possible to cast it using flashback and bring back one of the creatures you sacrifice.
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
Read the Bones
When you scry, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards on the bottom of your library, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them on the bottom.
The loss of life is part of the spell's effect. It's not an additional cost. If Read the Bones doesn't resolve, you won't lose life.
Scry appears on some spells and abilities with one or more targets. If all of the spell or ability's targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't scry.
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, that means you'll scry last. For others, that means you'll scry and then perform other actions.
You choose how to order cards returned to your library after scrying no matter where you put them.
Also Printed in Other Drops
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