Lake-town Army - Lost Hobbit Precon Contest
deck Bard, King of Dale
Aug 12, 2026
I wanted to build a deck that feels thematic to the humans of Lake-town in The Hobbit, like a real precon, and thus this deck is running a light kindred strategy. Most creatures are Humans, the recruit mechanic is used considerably, and when the creatures aren't Humans they either thematically feel relevant or contribute to certain strategies. As this deck uses recruit a lot, and is thus drawing cards a lot because of its commander, so I also have a ton of "you have no maximum hand size effects" on board as well, with pieces like Triskaidekaphile and Laboratory Maniac in there for alternate win-conditions as well.
The aim is to go wide with tokens and buff them with various effects, including kindred synergies. Since there is also a light discard strategy going on with the recruit mechanic, I've also put in some cards that help cast spells from the graveyard too (we can say it's thematic to Dale rising again after the fall of Smaug, or something). There's also a handful of connive cards in here too since that mechanic is similar to recruit.
Finally, I tried to keep myself to a budget of about $150, minus new Hobbit cards, which I treated a bit like if they were new mechanically unique cards for this "lost" precon. That value with the Hobbit cards is above said limit but it still feels like a reasonably plausible deck list (with a whole bunch of LOTR arts chosen here where possible)
