Surprise! by user6968022

Format: Commander

Commander: The Notary Hobbits

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-green ramp and stompy strategy led by The Notary Hobbits. The commander enters and creates two nonlegendary copies of itself, establishing three Halflings on board. Because each Halfling taps for colorless mana equal to the number of Halflings controlled, untapping with all three generates 9 colorless mana. Combined with basic land drops and early ramp pieces, the deck routinely commands 14 or more mana by Turn 5. It leverages this massive mana burst to deploy high-impact stompy threats, draw engines, and overrun effects such as Craterhoof Behemoth, End-Raze Forerunners, and Overwhelming Stampede. The strategy aims to eliminate opponents in rapid succession across Turns 5 through 7. Its primary vulnerabilities are vulnerability to early creature board wipes and reliance on natural draws to locate decisive combat payoffs.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggressive Mammoth
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Broken Wings
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Piper
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Flare of Cultivation
  • 1 Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
  • 27 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gigantic Big Bear
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Master's Rebuke
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rite of Renewal
  • 1 Sarkhan's Resolve
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Seedship Impact
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Transdimensional Bovine
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Wood Elves