The Hobbit Tester by user7662295

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Goblin/Orc/Army tribal deck helmed by The Great Goblin, built almost entirely around the amass mechanic. The core loop is simple: every time you put counters on a Goblin, Orc, or Army, the commander deals 2 damage to an opponent, and whenever one of your creatures dies, you impulse-draw off the top. The deck runs an enormous density of amass spells - Assault on Osgiliath, Swarming of Moria, Mordor Muster, March from the Black Gate, and two dozen more - to grow a single massive Army token while pinging opponents incrementally. The primary win is combat: a huge Army swinging with double strike and haste from Assault on Osgiliath, extra combats from Desert Were-Worm, and trample from Orcish Siegemaster and Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning. Muxus, Goblin Grandee provides a secondary flood of Goblins. This is a grindy, value-oriented midrange build with no infinite combos, relying on incremental burn and a growing board to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Angrath, Captain of Chaos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Harbinger
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Erebos's Intervention
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Ringleader
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mer-Ek Nightblade
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Widespread Brutality