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Magic: The Gathering – The Hobbit Prerelease Weekend | Jay's CD And Hobby
Magic: The Gathering is heading back to Middle-earth, and Jay's is opening the door first. The Hobbit Prerelease Weekend runs August 7–9 at both locations. Crack packs, build a deck on site, and play with the cards a full week before the August 14 street date.
Magic's 2023 trip to Middle-earth broke records and sold out everywhere. This is the follow-up, and it's built around one story: Bilbo, Thorin's company, and the dragon sitting on the mountain.
Every two-color pair gets its own hook in sealed. Recruit makes creature tokens while you draw. Amass grows an Army you can cash in at the right moment. Ferocious rewards going big. Storied cares about artifacts, legends, and Sagas. Landfall is back. And Adventures return, which is exactly the right mechanic for a set about one.
The collector side is stacked. Gleaming Gold Smaug the Magnificent is capped at roughly 500 copies worldwide. Book Cover cards frame mythics like novel jackets. Five mythics are printed transliterated into Dwarvish. Dragon Hoard frames, borderless Scene cards, and a 40-card Middle-earth Classic Artist box topper series bringing back mythics from the 2023 set.
Worth knowing: The One Ring, Orcish Bowmasters, Mox Amber and Andúril are reprinted in the Commander decks, not in the prerelease pool. Different product — ask us about preorders.
Jay's Southside – Des Moines
3315 SE 14th St, Des Moines, IA 50320
🗓 Friday, August 7 — 6:00 PM
🗓 Saturday, August 8 — 1:00 PM
Jay's Ankeny
613 S Ankeny Blvd, Ankeny, IA 50021
🗓 Sunday, August 9 — 1:00 PM
Choose your location and time slot above. That's the seat we hold for you — one registration per player, per slot.
Entry is $40 at the door. Pre-register right here and it's $35. Seats are capped at each slot, and Middle-earth sets do not sit around. Committing early is how you make sure you get the seat you want.
Every player gets a Prerelease Pack: six Play Boosters, a traditional foil promo card, a deck box, and a spindown die. You'll build a 40-card sealed deck on site out of what you open, add basic lands, and play rounds against everyone else in the room. Everything you open is yours to keep.
Never played Magic? Come anyway. Prerelease is the friendliest event on the calendar — half the room is figuring the set out in real time, and our staff will walk you through deckbuilding before round one. If you know who Smaug is, you're already most of the way there.
Every order inspected and packed for the shelf — because we collect this stuff too.
In-stock orders go out fast. No weeks-long waits, no vague timelines.
Not what was described? We make it right. No arguments, no hassle.
Every review here is Judge.me–verified — no cherry-picking, no edits. Just collectors who got their figures mint instead of mangled, and came back to say so.
Jays is my first stop in collecting. I preorder things through Walmart, Amazon, Hasbro Pulse, etc., but Jays always seem to get the items and either meet or beat the other companies pricing. I always end up cancelling my pre-orders and going with Jays. Better selection, price and MUCH MUCH better shipping quality. You can't even compare anyone else's shipping and packing to Jays. And that's why Jay's blows them all out of the water.
Great fast shipping, packaging with care. I am definitely buying from Jay's again! Such peace of mind knowing my items will arrive minty. 5 stars!
Perfect and careful packaging, shipped super quick. Thank you, will definitely be following the store!
Didn't pull any punches in item description. Came extremely fast and well packed. Extremely happy being a first time buyer! Thank you.
I've been buying from Jay's for a while now and I am never disappointed with the experience. Prices that can't be beat, easy PayPal option, and lots of bubble wrap surrounding the products. The fact that they go out of their way to make consumers happy keeps me coming back.
This is my 3rd or 4th time I have ordered from Jay's. The orders are always correct and arrive pretty quick and packaged extremely well. Best in the industry.
Please read our FAQs page to find out more.
Most in-stock orders placed before 12 PM CST ship the same day. We’re label-printing, box-packing machines — without skimping on quality. Your tracking number will probably show up before you’ve even closed the tab.
Every item gets collector-grade treatment: bubble wrap, proper padding, and zero envelope crimes. We pack like your grail’s riding shotgun with us — damage rate is under 1%.
Yep. We’ve been hunting plastic treasures since the ‘90s. We speak fluent collector (MOC, BAF, grail hunting), we’ve camped outside stores for midnight releases, and we run this place like the shop we always wished existed. Professional enablers at your service. 😎
30 days to decide if it’s true love. Not happy? Full refund to your original payment method. Damaged? We replace or refund fast. Just keep items in the condition you got them, and we’ll make it right — because the only drama in collecting should be choosing a display pose.
Calling dibs costs you $0 today — we only charge your card when it ships. No awkward “I paid months ago” limbo. Mixing in-stock + pre-orders? We’ll hold the order until everything’s here (pro tip: split ‘em). Dates can shift — we’ll keep you posted faster than Spider-Man slings webs. And if we ever can’t deliver (rare), you’re not charged a dime.
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