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Gandalf, Party Guest

There and Back Again: The Worth of the Journey represents Bilbo’s transformation from a comfortable, untested hobbit into someone shaped by friendship, courage, loss, and the stories he gathers along the road. Treasure may drive the quest toward Erebor, but the deck’s true wealth is found in the companions, relics, songs, and memories collected along the way—showing that what gives an adventure meaning is not what you bring home, but who you become before you return.

Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted

Bard, King of Dale

draw fast and play out your hand. When your deck is looking low refill it from your graveyard, just as Bard rebuilt dale after Smaug attacked the city.

Smaug, Wicked Worm

Beorn the Fierce

Belladonna Took

Howdy. I figured I would try to go for a budget token deck that can make Belladonna go off a few times a turn for a good bit of value. Thanks for looking!

Beorn the Fierce

Beorn & the Bearfolk

Gandalf, Wandering Wizard

Lost your Gandalf? Replay him from the command zone! A wizard is never late... Enjoy this Gandalf and Bilbo themed deck where cards from the two lotr sets meet cards from throughout Magics history. The deck has been carefully crafted such that every card references something from the fandom that has sprung from Tolkiens fantastical world. Swing spells or take to the sword as Gandalf, the Wandering Wizard as reimagined in the modern age (or as they call it in lore, the third age). The deck plays by playing enchantments, artifacts, ramp and other long-term value cards until Gandalf, Wandering Wizard can be cast. Use your mana wisely, but do not be afraid to let Gandalf wander off with his ability to protect him. Remember to put him in the command zone instead of shuffling him into your deck, there is plenty of ramp specifically to play him again and again. How does the deck win? There are several avenues to which the deck can win. Firstly Gandalfs' draw can ensure that you have powerful artifacts or enchantments out on turn 7-8 as the deck is full of them. Secondly, The Lord of the Eagles and other fliers can present a strong beat down deck from the air. Thirdly, there are no wizards in the deck except for Gandalf. And Gandalf, Shadow's Foe (to represent that there were only five istari ((also, this make it so that there are two blue wizards in the deck :))) ). Gandalf, Shadow's Foe fuels a secondary theme of the deck. Landfall. Return 3 lands every time Gandalf, Shadow's Foe gets bounced and we're in value town.

Gollum, Riddle Master

Riddle your way to victory with Gollum, Riddle Master! Challenge your opponents to choose odd or even, then sacrifice and return Gollum to begin the riddle game anew. Reclaim your Precious, harness the power of the Ring, and drain your opponents as Gollum’s obsession grows. When the time is right, slip past your enemies unseen and escape with the Ring!

Beorn the Fierce & Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator

The goal of the deck is to utilize a value commander for easy access to either draw or ramp effects for quick token buildup. Then the hunting begins utilizing threat assessment to swallow your unsuspecting prey with anthem effects. Beorn is the main commander that utilizes card draw and a built in bears tribal anthem to run over the game in a few turns of him being out. Bilbo is the alternate commander, present in most commander precon, that utilizes the generation of foods as a free ramp value with treasures. As alternate art most cards could follow a commander precon for the hobbit especially heroic feast, Rampaging Baloths (siege beasts in LOTR), and throne of eldraine enchantments.

Bilbo, Thief in the Night

What does he got in his nasty little pocketses? Handses? No. Knife? No. String? Or nothing? No. The One Ring? No! Silly Gollum; that one ring is far too expensive to be placed in pocketses! You should only put things you're willing to lose in your pockets. Only disposable things, like an expedition map, or a spellbomb, or a vial of poison. Even though Bilbo gets rid of those cheap artifacts quickly, they always seem to find their way back to him, with some extra value.

Smaug the Magnificent

Chief of the Wilds

Bigger the Pack, Bigger the Prey, Bigger the Hunt...

Chief of the Wilds

Ramp into Token creators to grow your pack!

Bard, King of Dale

Recruit those to fight for you in the rebuilding of Dale.

Chief of the Wilds

Thorin Oakenshield

The Lord of the Eagles

This is just a fun deck I was inspired to build with the cards I already had!

The Great Goblin

"Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad!" The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien This is a deck about musical goblins going wide and bringing lyrical, joyous chaos. Led by non-other than the Great Goblin.

Bard, King of Dale

Thorin, King of Durin's Folk

The Great Goblin

"It is the Goblin Cleaver! The Biter! The blade that sliced a thousand necks!" Heavily inspired goblin/orc deck from The Hobbit/LOTR. On par with a precon, slightly more expensive however the prices should still drop a bit as The Hobbit set stabilizes.

Smaug the Impenetrable

Build a massive pile of treasure while keep control of the battlefield and use those treasures to inflict pain, multiplied.

Smaug the Magnificent

Mono red treasure commander deck I made for the Tolarian Community College Lost Hobbit Precon deckbuilding challenge.

Smaug the Impenetrable

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.

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).

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.

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit & Sam, Loyal Attendant

So much food! More food than any hobbit could possibly eat. With this Gastroshire-themed Food deck, you’ll flood the battlefield with Food (and other) tokens, turning every feast into a weapon of gluttonous destruction. The deck rewards you whenever a Food token enters or leaves the battlefield—draining opponents, triggering damage, and generating value as you cook, sacrifice, and feast your way to victory. What starts as breakfast quickly becomes your opponents’ final supper! Meat’s back on the menu, boys!

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)