{"title":"Decipher, Inc.","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecipher, Inc. built its name on licensed collectible card games — Star Trek, Star Wars and, from 2001, The Lord of the Rings. The Virginia company's LOTR TCG ran until 2007 and remains one of the most collected card games of its era.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-lord-of-the-rings-tcg-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-booster-box-36-packs-factory-sealed","title":"Decipher 2001 Lord of the Rings TCG – The Fellowship of the Ring Booster Box | 36 Packs | Factory Sealed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Council rises, the road runs east, and nine walkers set out against a shadow that has been gathering for an age. Everything the game would become over the next six years starts here, at the moment the Ring leaves Rivendell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecipher launched The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game in November 2001, timed to the first film, and built it around a structure nobody else was using: one player guides the Fellowship along the adventure path while the other plays the Shadow, trying to kill or corrupt the Ring-bearer before he reaches Mordor. The Fellowship of the Ring is the premiere set — 365 cards, with a complete parallel foil set running alongside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery box holds 36 booster packs of 11 cards each: 1 rare, 3 uncommon and 7 common.\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughly one pack in six carries a diffraction foil in place of a common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fellowship of the Ring introduced the game to a generation that had just walked out of the cinema, and it stayed in print longer than any set that followed. Sealed boxes have been leaving circulation ever since — opened for the foils, broken down for singles, or simply lost to twenty-five years of moving house. This one is still shrink-wrapped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you are chasing foil Gandalfs, drafting with friends who remember the film's first run, or setting an unopened piece of the line on a shelf, this is where the LOTR TCG begins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decipher, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52822226862362,"sku":"LOTR-FOTR-BOX","price":299.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3134\/9786\/files\/LordoftheRingsTCGTheFellowshipoftheRing1.jpg?v=1788832101"},{"product_id":"the-lord-of-the-rings-tcg-the-return-of-the-king-booster-box-36-packs-factory-sealed","title":"Decipher 2003 Lord of the Rings TCG – The Return of the King Booster Box | 36 Packs | Factory Sealed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe beacons are lit, the Rammas is broken, and everything the story has been building toward for two films arrives at once. This is the set where the war stops being distant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Return of the King is Set 7 of the LOTR TCG, the third and last of the base sets, released on 5 November 2003 — a month ahead of the film. It runs to 365 cards, split evenly at 121 commons, 121 uncommons and 121 rares, with two premium cards that appeared only in starter decks. Every card in the set has a diffraction foil counterpart, and seven of the rares were also printed in Tengwar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was the first base set that added no new culture. Instead it went deeper into the ones already in play, and brought in two mechanics that reshaped how decks were built: Threats and Initiative. Longtime players tend to rate it among the strongest designs Decipher produced for the line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery box holds 36 booster packs of 11 cards each: 1 rare, 3 uncommon and 7 common.\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughly one pack in six carries a diffraction foil in place of a common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSealed Return of the King boxes have grown genuinely scarce. The set sat in the middle of the game's run — old enough that most of the print was opened long ago, popular enough that what survived rarely stays on a shelf. Dealers pay real money to get these back into stock, which tells you more about the supply than any listing can. This one has never been opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you are hunting a foil Aragorn, drafting the King block as it was meant to be played, or keeping an unopened piece of the trilogy era intact, this is the set at the centre of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decipher, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52822261858586,"sku":"LOTR-ROTK-BOX","price":1699.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3134\/9786\/files\/LordoftheRingsTCGTheReturnoftheKing1.jpg?v=1788832039"},{"product_id":"the-lord-of-the-rings-tcg-the-two-towers-booster-box-36-packs-factory-sealed","title":"Decipher 2002 Lord of the Rings TCG – The Two Towers Booster Box | 36 Packs | Factory Sealed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fellowship is broken. Frodo and Sam are alone on the road to Mordor with a guide neither of them trusts, Merry and Pippin are in the hands of orcs, and three of the company are running east across Rohan with no idea whether any of it will matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Two Towers is Set 4 of the LOTR TCG — the second base set and the opening of the Towers block, released on 6 November 2002, a month ahead of the film. Like the base sets on either side of it, it runs to 365 cards: 121 commons, 121 uncommons, 121 rares and two premium cards found only in starter decks. Every card has a diffraction foil counterpart, and twelve rares, one common and one premium were also printed in Tengwar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was the set that first reworked the game rather than just extending it. The original site path was replaced outright, and sites could now be taken by the Shadow player and liberated by the Free Peoples. Three cultures arrived — Rohan, Dunland and Raider — while Moria, Ringwraith and Sauron sat the set out entirely. Éowyn, Faramir and Théoden appear on cards for the first time, alongside Treebeard and a Saruman at the height of his power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery box holds 36 booster packs of 11 cards each: 1 rare, 3 uncommon and 7 common.\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughly one pack in six carries a diffraction foil in place of a common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three years on, boxes that were never opened are the exception rather than the rule. This one still carries its factory shrink wrap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you are building the Towers block as it was played, chasing a foil Éowyn, or keeping an unopened piece of the trilogy era on the shelf, this is where the second act begins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decipher, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52822273622298,"sku":"LOTR-TTT-BOX","price":199.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3134\/9786\/files\/LordoftheRingsTCGTheTwoTowers1.jpg?v=1788831984"},{"product_id":"the-lord-of-the-rings-tcg-siege-of-gondor-starter-deck-display-12-decks-factory-sealed","title":"Decipher 2004 Lord of the Rings TCG – Siege of Gondor Starter Deck Display | 12 Decks | Factory Sealed","description":"\u003cp\u003eMinas Tirith is surrounded, the Corsairs are on the river, and something older than the war is waiting in the tunnels above Cirith Ungol. Siege of Gondor is the set where the story stops moving and starts holding ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased on 10 March 2004 as Set 8, it is the second set of the King block: 122 cards in all — 40 commons, 40 uncommons, 40 rares and two premium cards found only in starter decks. Every card exists in a diffraction foil version, and six of the rares were also printed in Tengwar. The set brought Shelob into the game for the first time, along with the Army of the Dead, the Corsairs of Umbar and the Enduring keyword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is the sealed retail display: 12 starter decks, 63 cards each.\u003c\/strong\u003e Every deck holds 60 fixed cards, 3 randomly inserted rares and a starter rulebook. The display contains both of the set's starters, Merry and Pippin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe premium cards are the part worth knowing about. Each starter carries two copies of its character's premium version — cards that were never inserted into booster packs and could only be obtained this way. Collectors completing a Siege of Gondor set have to go through starter product to get them, which is why sealed displays have thinned out faster than the deck count suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve unopened decks, twenty-two years after they left the printer, still in the factory shrink wrap. 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