The Black Rider Tour is coming to a store near you!

Nine Decipher employees are setting out to across the land on a promotional tour for the Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game to play you in challenge matches and tournaments, and hand out exclusive Black Rider cards that you can only get where one of them visit! Best of all is that when you beat one of these ‘Nine Riders’ in a tournament you can win a complete box of The Two Towers expansion!

All you need to do to get your hand on one of these limited foil Black Rider promo cards is show up at one of the retail stores they visit, you don’t even need to play to get one!

For dates and locations Click here.

Black Rider Promo

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