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Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted

Amass your army and trample your foes!

Belladonna Took

How does drawing 4 cards, creating 12 token creatures, and pumping our team by +4/+4 each turn cycle sound? The goal of this deck is to outvalue our opponents by trying to reach the 3 tokens threshold on every player's turn. This is done by drawing into blink combos such as Lumbering Battlement + Restoration Angel + Ephemerate (And many more combinations) which allows us to blink ETB token makers on every player's turn. But don't worry, even without those combos this deck was designed to still pack a punch with some very good value pieces to guarentee you will outvalue your opponents in mono-white ;)

The Great Goblin

In true goblin fashion, this deck utilizes a variety of creatures bent on overrunning your opponents, but adventurers beware! Many of the spells amass a large army which can be used to crush opponents outright. Go wide with traditional goblin strategies while sacrificing your goblins. Grow and shrink your forces to burn your foes, and, if all else fails, throw your army directly at someone!

Chief of the Wilds

Gandalf, Party Guest

Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care

Bofur protecting his herd of animals and procuring his tools. Fight back at your opponents with small creatures in big numbers. Light reanimating and light interaction with the pod to form deals. Casual Battlecruiser B2

Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

A Wizard is Never Late - Gandalf heads the deck, arriving exactly when needed. Accelerated by flicker and tricks, your opponent's heads will be left reeling wondering how you have more lands than everyone else in Mono Blue. But they were all of them deceived, for another win was made.

Thranduil, the Elvenking

Smaug the Impenetrable

Build up your treasure pile then use it to play big spells, sac it to hurt your enemies, or win just by hoarding it.

Smaug, Wicked Worm

Give your opponents "gifts" then rake in the money with Smaug (and maybe even some copies).

Gandalf, Party Guest

Smaug, Wicked Worm

I wanted to make this deck similar to the average price of a precon. So, it doesn't have the best cards. Kinda like a precon.

Bard, King of Dale

Radagast of Rhosgobel

Bard, King of Dale

Bard, Heir of Girion

I wanted to make a deck that had an aggressive token strategy that also focuses on card draw to go along with the recruit mechanic. I wanted this deck to feel entirely in the world of Lord of the Rings, so no legendary creatures, names of people or places outside of LotR, or things that don't feel like they could thematically fit into the world. I felt it was only natural to also tie in the themes of the Riders of Rohan precon as well, because they fit into everything that the recruit mechanic wants to be doing, so this deck also has human tribal and monarch themes in the deck as well. I wanted this deck to feel like a precon so I have included cards from the main set into the deck with a limit of only one mythic and one rare card, as well as limiting the number of mythic and rare cards I include in the deck overall. Thank you so much for checking out my TCC Hobbit Precon submission, Strategic Assault and I hope you enjoy my deck!! :)

Beorn the Fierce

Smaug the Impenetrable

Chief of the Wilds

There's only one way to settle this: WARG GAMES.

Dáin of the Ancient Halls

Who loves treasure? Dwarves! Oh, and Dragons!

Smaug the Impenetrable

Beorn the Fierce

Beorn cannot bear the thought of company in his domain, but his kindred spirit is sure to defeat his opponents. Ramp into big bears and trample over your opponents while maintaining a sizeable hand of sizeable creatures to keep bearing down.

Thranduil, the Elvenking

Elf kindred deck, revolving around active abilities, graveyard filling, ramp, and pump

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

Celebrate Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday with a table full of Hobbits, Food, and festivities. Build value, grow the party, and turn a peaceful Shire gathering into a game-ending celebration.

Beorn the Fierce

A simple deck made in the model of a precon for TCC's Hobbit Lost Precons event. With it being a precon I wanted to stick to more of a simple strategy, mono-green bears seemed like a decent way to go. A lot of these cards are vanilla and easy to understand. This deck seeks to win through combat damage, trampling over your opponent's creatures. I hope that this simple deck can bring joy to those who play it (especially the judges at TCC because a collector's box would be pretty nice)

Chief of the Wilds

Beorn the Fierce

Smaug, Wicked Worm

A deck all about giving your opponents artifacts and making a ton of treasures for your benefit.

Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot

Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator

The Chief Warg

Wolves can be scavengers in nature. So, I had to scavenge as many budget cards as I am able to.

Bard, Heir of Girion

The goal of this deck is to replicate the feeling of the typical Universes Beyond precon; that is, a roughly bracket 2 deck (winning around turn 9 or 10 on average) containing a not-quite-optimized decklist with a couple heavy hitters/high value new cards or reprints (in this case, primarily The Queen of Dale, Gleaming Splendor, and Akroma's Will). Further, its cards contain as much from HOB, HOC, LTR, and LTC as possible while maintaining its approximate power level. As an option for a backup commander (as well as providing value in the deck regardless), Bard, King of Dale is included. Finally, regarding interaction, cards that are both thematically relevant and mechanically appropriate were given most priority (namely through cards like Bilbo's Gambit, Confusticate and Bebother, Sound the Trumpets, etc.) rather than the most efficient options (again, to preserve the feel of the average UB precon). Win conditions are primarily going wide with buffed humans, utilizing The Eagles are Coming! to decimate an opponent after building a wide board of weak tokens, and drawing enough cards to trigger Twenty-Toed Toad's third ability (as well as just keeping one's hand full to keep options there).

Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO PLAY MAGIC. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CARDS IN CARDBOARD THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY DECK BOX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR CONTROL PLAYERS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. - Cubic, I Have No Wincon & I Must Scream

Kíli the Resourceful

Beorn the Fierce

Beorn the Fierce

Gather your Bears! Mill and Stomp! Join forces with Beorn the Fierce, the mighty skinchanger chieftain in the Vales of Anduin, and assemble your army of Beornings to trample over any Goblin, Orc, or Warg that stands in your way! This deck is all about casting Bears, turning creatures into Bears, and lots of both combined with a mill subtheme that will allow you to keep bringing back your woodland threats. Alternatively, you could change the commander to the powerful wizard Radagast of Rhosgobel, and flash in powerful threats at instant speed to take your opponents by surprise. Show your opponents the power of Middle-Earth's mightiest beasts with this amazing precon and the 10 new Hobbit cards included with the deck!

Chief of the Wilds

Chief of the wilds deck that has a simple plan… eat your podmates for breakfast! Ramp and flood the board with Wargs and Wolves to pump the commander. Make sure you double every trigger to really finish them off. Bracket 2-3 this is my personal deck I run, glad to share it and I hope to see some official hobbit precons come out with the five armies box. Love you prof ❤️

Bard, King of Dale

Maybe a bit too pricey...

Bolg of the North

The Hosts of Gundabad unites Mordor’s Orcs, Goblins, and Armies in a relentless Rakdos horde led by Bolg of the North. Build massive token forces, sacrifice expendable creatures for value, and overwhelm the table through brutal combat and attrition.

Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator

Beorn is the main commander due to draw value, easy anthem effects and gifting trample keyword. Bilbo is also a good commander for access to early mana given that food cards are in opening hand. The goal of the deck is to make a ton of creatures, ramp, and draw to overrun your opponents. Mono Colored commander precon an are few in number and these two commanders from the hobbit can make it happen. LOTR gargaroth’s are the only depiction to make Rampaging Baloths fit theme wise otherwise every other card fits very well given a Hobbit style card art treatment.

Gandalf, Party Guest

Legends - Big Spells - Wizards Bring all your most magically inclined companions to celebrate The Hobbit with Wizard Party! Conjure all your closest friends, but be ready for an explosive event! With 24 Wizard creatures, and 26 Instants and Sorceries, you're sure to inspire awe at the table. And when you run out of spells in hand, have no fear! With spells like Aminatou's Augury, Mizzix's Mastery, and Surge to Victory, the party never truly ends!

Thorin, King of Durin's Folk

Dwarves and Treasures

The Master of Lake-town

Hard for your opponents to beat you if they don't have any cards. The Master of Lake-town acts as the primary commander and this mono-black precon is all about milling cards and getting those cards either into your hand or onto the battlefield. It fits into the normal realm of a precon as it is bracket two with a lot of room to grow with upgrades. It would also allow the upgrader to choose whether to focus on milling actions and maybe upgrade with Rad cards and the like, or focus more on recursion. It would include nice reprints of Altar of Dementia and Maze of Ith. In the fantasy world of a precon, cards like Syr Konrad and Ayara might have been reskinned while other cards like Dockside Chef and Crypt Rats would just need new art. The secondary commander, which should be a reskin of Syr Konrad, could be Gollum, Riddle Master, as if a Commander from this set is needed, as it still controls, in a way, how your opponents are casting spells.

Beorn the Fierce

Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted

Tom Bombadil

Features the important moments and characters from Bilbo's and Frodo's (and Samwise's) book which was translated from Westron to english by J.R.R. Tolkien (would be precon prize with different printings)

Thranduil, the Elvenking

Tom, Bert, and William

"Tastes Like Chicken" was designed to look, feel, and taste like chicken... I mean... an official 100 card Magic the Gathering: The Hobbit preconstructed Commander deck. The deck's face commander is "Tom, Bert, and William", the trolls from my favorite chapter in The Hobbit: "Roast Mutton". These cantankerous trolls argue over the taste of different meat, with William arguing that, "Everything tastes like chicken." Well, this deck aims to provide the trolls with the flavors of the Magic multiverse: Dinosaurs, Demons, Phyrexians, oh my! Play cheap, big creatures, feed them to the trolls, and draw LOTS of cards. Ramp often, overwhelm the board with threats, and close out with HUGE combat damage. I tried my best to balance budget, mechanical power, and thematic elements as equally as possible in this deck. With a final listed price of $126, I felt I was fairly on point for an average precon deck. There is also a non-bulk value of roughly $60, a decent value I believe. In terms of power-level, I do think Zopandrel and Skullspore push this deck slightly outside of "Precon" range, but that they are decent chase cards for the list, and would benefit from a reprint. My removal suite, board wipes, and mana base are all in line from what I expect from a precon. I would replace some lands if it were my own deck, but scry and gain lands would almost certainly be included in a real precon. Finally, flavor-wise, I strived to include as many Middle-Earth cards as possible without weakening the deck. I also aimed to allow players to replace the face commander with other Middle-Earth Golgari commanders, such as The Hobbit's own "The Chief Warg" as well as Tales of Middle-Earth's "Sméagol, Helpful Guide". Whilst neither of these legends would pilot the deck nearly as well as the face commander, I did think they were serviceable options for deck-tinkerers. I also included some flavorful trolls that would certainly be cut by a skilled deck constructor, but I couldn't remove them myself. Always nice to give players a couple of easy cuts. I believe this deck would fit right in amongst other powerful Golgari and Universes Beyond precons. I think it has fun and splashy play patterns, without going above and beyond what a precon is capable of. I do hope you found this precon exciting, as the only better taste than chicken, is the taste of victory. P.S. I snuck a Battlebond land in there for you, Prof. :P P.P.S. I used Reliquary Tower and Thought Vessel correctly! :D

Gandalf, Party Guest

Bard, King of Dale

Bard, along with the survivors of Lake-Town, rebuild and protect the lost Kingdom of Dale.