Forget Gold Smaug. The Surge Foil Book Covers Are the Chase.

Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit released August 14, and the conversation has been dominated by one card: the gleaming gold Smaug the Magnificent headliner, roughly 500 copies worldwide, listed out of the gate at prices that make it a lottery ticket rather than a collectible.

Ignore it. The card that actually matters…