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Art by Tomas Duchek
Tomas Duchek

Deceive the Messenger

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #498
Common Non-foil Silver foil Showcase Booster Fun EN

Released · Illustrated by Tomas Duchek

  • Collector Boosters only

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

$0.27 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.39 as of 2026-11-02
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.28 as of 2026-11-02
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.27 as of 2026-11-03
  • Buylist Card Kingdom $0.05 as of 2026-10-16

Silver foil

$0.41 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-11-02
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.26 as of 2026-11-03
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.26 as of 2026-11-02
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.41 as of 2026-11-03
  • Buylist Card Kingdom $0.12 as of 2026-09-17

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Price history

Foil

7 d -2.4% 30 d +2.5%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 03 Nov 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

Non-foil

7 d 0.0% 30 d +3.8%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 03 Nov 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
3382b1de-6d45-443c-a837-f3cd3e86233d
Oracle id
a9720545-37f4-42f1-932f-13ef88c9ea72
Illustration id
c923b596-49aa-42bb-bc4f-36624de1cc11
Card back id
0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
Multiverse ids
636095
MTGO id
119386
TCGplayer id
517997
Cardmarket id
737585
MTGJSON uuid
9febf1b7-8ad2-5d00-90ad-2222f6ef00a4
Card Kingdom id
285721
Cardsphere id
111330
Set code
LTR
Collector number
498
Layout
normal
Frame
2015
Border
black
Security stamp
triangle
Promo types
silverfoil, scroll, universesbeyond, boosterfun
Frame effects
showcase
Booster
No
Games
paper, mtgo
Story spotlight
No
Reserved list
No
EDHREC rank
14255

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Other printings

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