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The Lord of the Eagles

Fill the skies with strange creatures to coax out The Lord of the Eagles and start swinging for dangerous amounts of flying damage. Use his large mana value and ability to be flashed in to turn the tides. Any commander tax he accrues will be easily mitigated! Built with the typical power, reprint value, and constraints of a modern precon in mind.

Thorin, King of Durin's Folk

The Queen of Dale

The Queen is not amused.

The Lord of the Eagles

“The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!” From the Misty Mountains they descend — a storm of wings blotting out the sun. This is a deck built for that moment: the desperate turn of the tide, when all seems lost and salvation arrives on feathered wings. Rally your flock with swift, cunning fliers — Warden of Evos Isle, Loyal Drake, Bilbo slipping through the shadows unseen. Let the winds favor you (Favorable Winds, Tempest Djinn) as your skies darken with allies. Then, when the moment is right, the sky itself answers: The Lord of the Eagles descends, flash-summoned for a fraction of his true cost, an 8/8 titan arriving exactly when your enemies think the battle is won. Arm him for war. Andúril, reforged and gleaming. The Sword of Feast and Famine, drinking the strength of your foes. Bind him in Eldrazi steel until he blots out the sky entirely. Let Meneldor carry your fallen back into the fight, wings never tiring. Your enemies dug in, fortified, certain of victory — until the horizon fills with wings. Hold the skies. Answer the horns. Let the Eagles decide the battle.

The Queen of Dale

The Queen is not amused.

The Lord of the Eagles

Thorin, King of Durin's Folk

Beorn the Fierce

Gandalf, Party Guest

Thorin, King of Durin's Folk

Bilbo, Thief in the Night

Play cheap cards in the early filtering your hand. In the mid-game, use your interaction to deter your opponent. In the late game, start stealing all your opponents' creatures and artifacts.

Dwalin, Weaponmaster

"Enter the forge with Dwalin, Weaponmaster! Fashion unique equipment, hone them to perfection, and cut down your opponents with power." Precon-adjacent equipment staples provide a familiar foundation, while a selection of unconventional equipment gives the deck its own identity. While equipment decks typically focus on increasing power, Dwalin creates an opportunity to play value-oriented equipment that gradually grow stronger through hone counters. A modest proliferation package accelerates growth, strengthening anything with hone counters while turning otherwise restrictive interactions with charge counters and other counters into added value. The deck is built to grow as tall as it does wide, steadily increasing in its board presence and power through Dwalin's ability. Reconfigure creatures are strangely useful here, as their effects often provide utility rather than raw strength. This makes them easy to overlook in favor of stronger equipment, but they can accrue hone counters and improve their strength over time. When equipped, they also survive creature board wipes and can effectively rebuild your board as creatures again, giving the deck resilience that typical equipment decks lack.

Radagast of Rhosgobel

Oh no! Radagast has wandered away again, but this time he has lost all of his green creatures and finds himself in a desolate wasteland, void of color and life. It's a good thing he learned the spell to produce colorless mana so he can meet some shiny new friends who can improve his effectiveness, utilize all that extra mana, and destroy anyone who stands in the way. Maybe he isn't so lost after all.

Belladonna Took

Radagast of Rhosgobel

Flash all

Smaug the Magnificent

Pulled this card in prerelease and I thought it would be fun to have treasures and burn :)

Beorn the Fierce

Slimes but also Bears. Proliferate!

Tom, Bert, and William

Tom, Bert, and William resolved to make merry and hold a great feast, and to it they bade all the creatures of the forest. Yet ere the night was spent, some among the guests found themselves upon the dinner-table, and not as guests, but as the dinner.

Chief of the Wilds

Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths

Riddles in the Dark is a blue-black Commander deck built around Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths and inspired by The Hobbit. It focuses on hidden information, guessing games, secret piles, and tricky choices, using cards like Riddles in the Dark, Gollum, Riddle Master, and Fact or Fiction. The deck is casual, flavorful, and designed to make every game feel like a riddle.

Radagast of Rhosgobel

The deck is built to help new players learn Magic through straightforward gameplay and combat‑focused interactions, emphasizing clear sequencing, attacking, blocking, and board development. It leans on heavy amounts of low‑cost ramp that directly synergizes with the commander, letting you drop 2‑mana artifact creatures on each opponent’s turn to steadily build board presence. That early momentum snowballs as you start deploying big, trampling threats ahead of curve. The game closes with powerful finishers that grant overrun‑style buffs or indestructibility, letting your creature swarm punch through defenses and secure the win.

Bilbo, Thief in the Night

I built this deck around the flavor of Bilbo delving the lonely mountain. My focus was artifacts and casting spells from the graveyard to nudge at the idea of the past artifacts or ideas being dug up (like how bilbo burglars the treasure of lonely mountain) Flavor aside, I think mono color decks arent explored enough and I love the mechanic of an artifact / reanimator deck. Hope you enjoy and can see the vision.

Bard, King of Dale

Bifur, Melodic Rider

dwarf first deck I've ever built

Smaug, Wicked Worm

The Great Goblin

Smaug, Wicked Worm

"Bilbo had heard tell and sing of dragon-hoards before, but the splendour, the lust, the glory of such treasure had never yet come home to him. His heart was filled and pierced with enchantment and with the desire of dwarves; and he gazed motionless, almost forgetting the frightful guardian, at the gold beyond price and count." - J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit. This is a rakdos treasure deck designed to be as explosive as a dragon's breath, able to generate a lot of mana/treasures in one turn and immediately make use of them to destroy your opponents. Designed to feel like a real precon, this deck prioritises flavour and power in equal measure, missing certain cards that would doubtlessly be quite powerful because they didn't fit with the deck and also so that players would have room to upgrade the precon. Additionally, cards from the hobbit set were prioritised over non-hobbit cards and cards from sets outside the high fantasy genre were avoided unless they could reasonably be reprinted with fitting art. This deck's gameplan is to spend the beginning creating some treasures and a minor value piece which, after playing Smaug, can snowball very quickly into the powerful cards that run at the top end of this deck. Greed, vanity and power are the components that make up Smaug as a character so those are the feeling I tried to evoke with this deck.

Thorin, King of Durin's Folk

Bard, Heir of Girion

Who knew that a 4-man mana man who buffs and draws cards could be so good in a token deck? On the Moxfield side of things, it says $140, but on the Mana Pool, it is $176. But enough about price. I made this deck because I think it has a simple premise and commander that can be changed and updated to fit and fine-tune for your play style, as well as show off how strong card draw and +1/+1 across your board can be for a new player. And finally, I chose this commander because I didn't want to pick something everyone would do. It wins on turn 9 consistently with mana open for interaction! I think it actually pairs well against the other token heavily deck that the professor made, being that they both care about stat buffs; they just use their tokens differently. With no game changers and infinites out of the box, I think it fits well as a precon!

Tom, Bert, and William

Tom, Bert, William, and a few other troll friends scour mirkwood for food and high power creatures to eat. A few interesting interactions: Baloth Prime can lend stun counters with nesting grounds, and also combos nicely with Gitrog Monster to make tokens and draw cards. Varolz and Deathclaws make huge buffs scavenging the 'yard and make excellent finishers. Tutor them up with Pollen and Fauna Shaman! Don't be shy about drawing a million cards and discarding to buff up Lotleth Troll. NEW CARDS Azog can hit your Hunted Troll, and then you can regenerate it for a cheap 8/8 army. Rhavonian Rampager is a powerhouse in this deck. beat with it. eat it. beat with the army it leaves behind. Excellent card exhibiting all strategies at once. Our Troll Trio love to eat a rotten Rakshasa. 3 mana draw 5 and set up a cardboard cutout army for your oppenents later on? seems fine. Radagast and Beorn are just Strong. You just play them and they do their thing and its great. sometimes no synergy is great synergy. Let beorn take some heat off the draw-a-million-cards strategy because if they don't they die to the bear. Speaking of, Gigantic Big Bear! It beats! Trolls Eats! Also don't neglect to eat the Mayor of Lake Town. He is tastier than he looks. Make food! Make your food revive a troll king. make it have crazy abilities from a squirrel witch (bonus points for golden goose to make your food make food). The food subtheme is minor, but just about everything that makes food, cares about it and makes it more useful.

Gandalf, Party Guest

This is a Legendary Wizard Tribal Spellslinger precon concept deck. The deck's primary game plan is to use the abilities of its legendary Wizards to cast, copy, recycle, and recast spells, often at a reduced cost or for free. As with most precons, the deck does not include any infinite combos and is easily upgraded by some choice cuts and additions. It leans heavily into the spellslinger strategy, so it includes more interaction than a typical precon which usually use more creatures than instants and sorceries. This deck is designed to change that perception. One of the deck's intentional weaknesses is its relatively high reliance on the commander, which is a common limitation of preconstructed decks. This also leaves plenty of room for protection and interaction with a few key additions. The deck is designed first and foremost to be fun and flavorful. All creatures in the deck are Legendary Wizards from throughout Magic's history, including both UW and UB characters, along with nearly every version of Gandalf. Only one Gandalf is missing, and Gandalf, Shadow's Foe would make an excellent first upgrade. The secondary commander is Gandalf of the Secret Fire, which changes the deck's approach by trading the primary commander's free casting ability for the use of time counters to cast spells for free. The deck is also intentionally dominated by cards from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. In several cases, cards with greater overall utility have been replaced by less powerful options simply because they belong to those sets. This is a deliberate choice that prioritizes theme and flavor over optimization. The deck also makes use of The Lord of the Rings' "the Ring tempts you" mechanic. Whenever possible, the selected card printings are from The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit sets.

The Sackville-Bagginses

Drain Bilbo of all vitality by inundating him with pesky uninvited guests - and sacrificing them!

Thranduil, the Elvenking

Dwalin, Weaponmaster

Dáin Ironfoot

Main theme of using equipments to supercharge your dwarfs and some humans with a sub theme to create as many axes as possible.

The Queen of Dale

Gollum, Riddle Master

In a deck full of the calloused and uncaring nobility of Middle Earth, use Gollum as a sacrificial outlet to drain your opponent's life. However, Gollum's obsession for the One Ring will not be denied. He will persist, remaining on the field and refreshing his triggers to frustrate your foes. This deck can be upgraded with mono black staples such as Phyrexian Obliterator and Grave Pact. You can also include copy cards such as Helm of the Host to double up on Gollum's triggered effects.

Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally

Remember when precons were affordable? Made this deck with that in mind!

Thorin, King of Durin's Folk

Create treasures with dwarven companions!

The Sackville-Bagginses

Bard, King of Dale

This is an Azorius Human Tribal deck that tries to go wide with token doublers while drawing a ton of cards and buffing tokens in the process. While I could have make different choices with the token engines, I decided to stick within the LotR setting so any card here that isn't from a LotR set had to be a card that could still aesthetically fit within Tolkien's world.

The Chief Warg

Face your opponents with Azog's faithful warg, imagined through "The Chief Warg". Wargs hunt in packs - build up the hunting force that will overpower your foes and only grow stronger with each strike, kill or creature that joins. But death is not the end. Use your grave to either power up existing creatures or to bring back threatening pieces that were thought to be dealt with, a reminder that the hunt never ends.

Gandalf, Party Guest

Basically became a Oops, all Gandalf's using cards from LOTR and HOB. The deck is on theme, throwing a party, having food and casting spells, a good olde, time. To keep on budget, using cards that you may have in your collection and not finely tune. To upgrade the deck, you can use the Jeskai, shocks, fetches and surveils, and use other cards like Monologue Tax->Gleaming Splendor 3 Plains-> Steam Vents, Sacred Foundry, Hallowed Founation 3 Islands-> Arid Mesa, Scalding Tarn, Flooded Strand 3 Mountains-> Elegant Parlor, Meticulous Archive, Thundering Falls Not counting cards that are bulk(under $2.00), and cards in a collection. The cards below, are the cost of most of the deck. 1xGandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape $7.50 1xGandalf, Shadow's Foe $19.20 1xLife of the Party $11.23 1xGlamdring $5.09 1xWizard's Staff $4.83 1xStorm of Saruman $3.20 1xCall Forth the Tempest $20.27 1xFlame of Anor $4.16 1xJeskai Revelation $8.11 1xRaugrin Triome $14.45 Total 98.04

Smaug the Magnificent

Are you ready to make some gold and then have a big bad dragon fling that gold at your friends? Well this is the perfect deck for you!

Balin, Loremaster

Gandalf, Party Guest

An Unexpected Gathering “You were expecting a quiet evening, perhaps? A warm fire, a full pantry, and absolutely no Wizards appearing uninvited? How unfortunate. There is work to be done, spells to be cast, and an adventure waiting just beyond the door. Come along. We shall try to leave the pantry intact.” — Gandalf

The Lord of the Eagles

A lord needs an army, and this lord arrives with his flock. Fill the skies with feathers, draw piles of cards, and build a powerful flock through tribal synergies and buffs to fuel 'The Lord of the Eagles' entry. - An infinite 'Time Warp' combo was considered during construction but was ultimately removed to keep the deck closer to precon power levels. Besides, when the skies belong to the birds, extra turns are hardly necessary.

Chief of the Wilds

Finally, wolves get their own busted tribal commander! This deck is built around two core themes: going wide with plenty of 2/2 wolf tokens, and in the process, pumping our commander as much as possible.

Smaug, Wicked Worm

The halls of Erebor are silent no longer. Beneath the mountain, Smaug slumbers atop a mountain of gold, awakening only to punish thieves and feed his ever-growing hoard. Gather Treasure, summon dragons, and let greed consume the table in a deck that celebrates the story of The Hobbit

The Notary Hobbits