Hobbit Precon - Going, Going, Gone! A Bag End Estate Sale
deck The Notary Hobbits
Aug 11, 2026
Bilbo has returned from his adventure only to discover that he has been presumed dead and his possessions are being auctioned away.
Going, Going, Gone! turns that small moment from The Hobbit into an entire Commander precon.
The Notary Hobbits enter as the three auctioneers Messrs. Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes and each can tap for mana based on the number of Halflings you control. As more Halflings arrive, the auction staff becomes an increasingly powerful mana engine.
That mana pays for the “auction lots”: Food, Treasures, heirlooms, weapons, maps, household objects, and strange artifacts. Cards such as Coveted Jewel, Pendant of Prosperity, and Bucknard’s Everfull Purse can actually move between players, allowing the auction theme to physically play out at the Commander table.
Panharmonicon and Conjurer’s Closet can create additional Notaries, while Food and Treasure production provides a second resource engine. Eventually the harmless looking crowd of Hobbits wins through large combat turns with cards such as Overwhelming Stampede and End-Raze Forerunners.
I deliberately built the deck like a real retail Commander precon rather than an optimized EDH list: a modest mana base, familiar Commander staples, a heavy concentration of Hobbit and Middle earth cards, flavorful reprints, no deterministic infinite combo, and several splashy but understandable synergies.
The goal was for the deck to be easy to pick up, funny to discover, and strong enough to create memorable Commander games.
Bilbo went there and back again.
Unfortunately, his furniture didn’t wait for him.
