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Art by Tomas Duchek
Tomas Duchek

Deceive the Messenger

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #47
Common Non-foil Traditional foil EN

Released · Illustrated by Tomas Duchek

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Not in a preconstructed deck (collector booster or promo printing).

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"Tell Gandalf that he must seek my aid at once." —Saruman

What is this worth

Non-foil

$0.16 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.35 as of 2026-10-11
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.06 as of 2026-10-12
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-10-11
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.16 as of 2026-10-12

Traditional foil

$0.25 Medium confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-10-11
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.16 as of 2026-10-12
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-10-11
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.25 as of 2026-10-12

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Price history

Foil

7 d +8.7% 30 d 0.0%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 12 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

Non-foil

7 d -5.9% 30 d 0.0%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 12 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

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Oracle text

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Legalities

Legal Not legal

Standard
Pioneer
Modern
Legacy
Vintage
Pauper
Premodern
Old School
Future
Commander
Duel Commander
Oathbreaker
Pauper Commander
PreDH
Brawl
Standard Brawl
Historic
Timeless
Alchemy
Gladiator
Penny Dreadful
tlr
competitivebrawl

Identifiers and data

Scryfall id
b2984bc6-7c12-46e4-8dd3-b23e29a7a7ec
Oracle id
a9720545-37f4-42f1-932f-13ef88c9ea72
Illustration id
c923b596-49aa-42bb-bc4f-36624de1cc11
Card back id
0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
Multiverse ids
616877
MTGO id
112004
Arena id
84739
TCGplayer id
499950
Cardmarket id
717094
MTGJSON uuid
2659535e-6a30-55ed-9dc4-9f660f632126
Card Kingdom id
278688
Cardsphere id
104285
Set code
LTR
Collector number
47
Layout
normal
Frame
2015
Border
black
Security stamp
triangle
Promo types
universesbeyond
Booster
Yes
Games
paper, arena, mtgo
Story spotlight
No
Reserved list
No
EDHREC rank
14100

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Other printings

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #498