Magic: The Hobbit Prerelease, August 7-13

Magic the Gathering: The Hobbit prerelease is August 7-13

Return to Middle-earth and experience a timeless tale’s grand beginning! Set out from The Shire with Bilbo, Gandalf, and their company of Dwarves in pursuit of fortune, adventure, and the dreadful Dragon Smaug. Amass and recruit your armies in the shadow of The Lonely Mountain, then battle it out to claim the treasures of Erebor!

All booster boxes feature a special box-topper card drawn from a set of alt-art cards from within the set!

What is in The Hobbit

Box toppers are back! All sealed booster boxes come with 1 additional box topper card.

The following sections will be updated with pictures and details as more promo and activity information becomes available.

What to expect at a prerelease?

Read our primer article about what a prerelease is like, and prepare for your first prerelease, or hundredth!

Magic: the Gathering The Hobbit Prerelease Schedule

Note that preregistration prior to the Friday of prerelease gets a $5-10 discount off the weekend-of pricing, so preregister early. Attending prerelease also gets you a special price on any Play or Collector box purchased after playing – but you’ve got to play in the event to get that price!

FRIDAY

Super Casual Sealed | $39.99 presale or $49.99 weekend of
1 pm registration, 1:30 pm seatings

You know it, you love it. Build a deck, play 3 rounds, get 2 packs for playing. A can’t miss option for new and experienced players alike.

Super Casual Sealed | $44.99 presale or $49.99 weekend of
6 pm registration, 6:30 seatings

You know it, you love it. Build a deck, play 3 rounds, get 2 packs for playing. A can’t miss option for new and experienced players alike.

SATURDAY

Classic Sealed | $44.99 presale or $54.99 weekend of
12 pm registration, 1pm seatings

With a pizza lunch served prior to round 1.

Join us for Classic Sealed – get your prerelease kit, build a deck, and battle it out for packs based on standings! 1 Collector Pack* for going 3-0, 3 set packs for 2-1, and 1 set pack for everyone else! Everyone gets pizza, everyone gets fun.

Super Casual Wind-Down | $25 presale or $49.99 weekend of
5 pm registration, 5:30 seatings.

Casual, non-competitive, friendly matches. Our best price and lowest pressure competition of the weekend. Everyone that plays at least 1 round gets 2 bonus packs for playing.

SUNDAY 2-HEADED

2-Headed Giant | $79.99 per team presale / $89.99 weekend of
1 pm seatings – Price is for 2 players (2 kits, 2x prizes)

One entry gets you two players worth of fun. 2-Headed Giant is back on Sundays! Get 12 packs to build 2 decks and battle the other 2-headed teams.

Every player who finishes all the rounds gets 2 set booster packs – 3-0 teams get 6 set booster packs.

These events will be run using Magic’s Event Link tournament software. Download the Event Link Companion App here! This will let you join events, report results, and more!

*collector packs will generally be the new set, but in the event of a product shortage for a release Just Games reserves the right to substitute any in-stock Collector Pack.