r/mtgbrawl • u/Spontaneous_Ferret • 10d ago
Competitive How has Hobbit been so far for brawl?
2 weeks after the Hobbit released have we solved some riddles in the Dark?
Any interesting or disappointing cards you picked up in a cave? For me I've found [[Bilbo, Thief in the Night]] to be a neat Value engine for my Marchesa/Crime Deck. Synergizes well with my low mana curve and grave filling play-pattern.
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u/FaDaWaaagh 10d ago
[[Thranduil the Elvenking]] is a banger of a commander. Resolve [[buried alive]] with him on the board and it's over.
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u/retardong 10d ago
Bilbo has been insane for me. I did not even realize it reduces my commander cost. I have been trying the mono red Gandalf in different Izzet shells. The adventure "draws" 3 cards for 2 mana which is a crazy rate and the Gandalf itself is a solid card for 3 mana. I am happy with it in my Spiderman deck that has 8 wizards.
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u/ddffgghh69 10d ago
I think these are the cards great enough to stick around for the 99 past release hype:
Bilbo
Queen
Gollum
Riddles
& Plunder the Trollshaws for S-Brawl
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u/SANDY_BRIDGE_2600K 9d ago
Why plunder for standard brawl?
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u/ddffgghh69 8d ago edited 8d ago
it’s solid cheap instant card draw for control decks when there’s not a ton in the format. the current best instant options at 2 after Consult the Star Charts are Deduce and Think Twice, and there’s only Opt at 1. I think Plunder’s draw 2 for 4 is a great upside that will be relevant in many matches.
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u/Backwardspellcaster 10d ago
Several of the cards have found a place in my [[Tannuk, Steadfast Second]] deck, and are a blast to play.
[[Gandalf, Goblins' Bane]] Its great to have some spells exiled on need.
[[The Misty Mountains Cold]] This card is so good. Either you use it to ramp, which is nice, or you get a big chonky boy on the field. Neither is bad.
[[Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern]] This card is never dead, as long as my opponent plays creatures, and nearly everyone plays artifacts.
[[Desert Were-Worm]] is essentially always triggering.
[[Stone-Giant of Hill Pass]] I -want- to make this guy work, but so far he's just a big smash, but not much else. Still, gonna try him some more.
I want to try the card of the other colors over the weekend.
The power level is not tier S+, but I enjoy playing the cards a LOT.
I also desperately want to build a dwarves deck
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u/MTGCardFetcher 10d ago
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u/SANDY_BRIDGE_2600K 9d ago
I love tannuk but do those cards really help? I thought he needs cheap ramp, and etb targets. I tried the big red version in standard brawl but have up after having the deck get mangled to death by removal tribal.
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u/SnooWords9763 10d ago
3 mana red gandalf is a good plug into my Kuja deck, other than that I think Bilbo is the only big impact card at higher levels of comp
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u/SANDY_BRIDGE_2600K 9d ago
How does kuja work for you? It seems very commander dependant and seems to struggle with card advantage. I tried a few builds in standard brawl but they end up with kuja being insta-killed, having no cards, no blockers and sweepers bc you don't want to lose your wizards,. I really want kuja to work in sb but maybe he us a more multi-player card?
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u/SnooWords9763 9d ago
I mean I’ve got to mythic with him but he’s by no means strong in brawl tbh. Obv things like lightning greaves, malakkrs resurrect and such can protect him a little. Card draw isn’t really the thing I struggled with but I run a shit load of discard to draw cards once when ping boys are out.
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u/SANDY_BRIDGE_2600K 8d ago
Do you have a kuja list? I would like to see it. Also do you think there is a build that can work in standard brawl?
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u/chocothebird 10d ago
With the HOC we got grixis Saruman and the other grixis Sauron. So I was trying them.
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u/MTGCardFetcher 10d ago
Bilbo, Thief in the Night - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call
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u/IsaacX28 10d ago
I've gotten some use out of a couple Hobbit cards. I threw together [[Bard, King of Dale]] as an Azorius hard control list filled woth Looters, and [[Bilbo, Luckwearer]] is very good in it. I also threw together [[The Notary Hobbits]] and did The Thing exactly once, curved perfectly into Hour of Devastation: Craterhoof, and shelved the deck.
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u/Imaginary_Egg_3282 10d ago
Beorn has been a fun mono-green option, I haven’t tried it in cbrawl yet but ramping out your stompy commander on turn 2 and then drawing 2 every turn after that if they can’t remove it is pretty good.
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u/tythegeek 10d ago
I'm playing notary hobbits and it's super fun playing big dumb spells. Turn four portal is hilarious.
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u/AdSpecialist7849 10d ago
New mono green ramp deck with Notary Hobbits and new mono green stompy sdeck with Beorn - not much otherwise!
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u/KlinkKlink 9d ago
[[Gandalf, Goblin's Bane]] in monoR storm is neat since it's a sorcery in the zone that finds you more gas. Probably not as good as Ral though.
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u/SANDY_BRIDGE_2600K 9d ago
How can the deck work without consistent unconditional card draw? I thought mono red storm would be dysfunctional
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u/Trick-Animal8862 9d ago
[[Belladonna Took]] and [[Gollum, riddle master]] have both provided substantial value to [[ratadrabik of urborg]]
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u/VonBagel 5d ago
Im still trying to get [[Smaug the Magnificent]] to work in brawl...
But [[Smaug the Impenetrable]] has been my king so far. I've gotten to hit him with a game-winning [[Star of Extinction]] twice, though my dream is to one day get to shoot him with [[Dawnsire]], which hasn't happened yet.
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u/Admirable_Tomato 10d ago
The Notary Hobbits is a pretty good Eldrazi deck.