![]() ![]() Despite that, neither actually made my build for now I'm still considering Kasmina. This proved to be immensely helpful, as Kasmina, Enigma Sage and Littjara Kinseekers are the only pre-existing cards to have both. Many of these cards would make my deck even without the restriction as about half of my 20 required cards come from searching "scry" in Tales from Middle-earth. This made it easier on me as the blue and green archetype for this set is centered in Scry and Elves. I originally intended to use this experience to work on either Sauron, the Dark Lord or Aragorn, the Uniter, but I decided to focus my efforts elsewhere. That percent is often how I defined my "underdog" picks.THE CUT: Tales from Middle-earthFor my commander, I chose Elrond, Master of Healing. While that might be out of 85 and he is relatively high-ranked, he still is sitting at 16.5% of the decks of the 4th most-built commander from the set, Shelob, Child of Ungoliant. He currently sits as the 14th most built legend in Tales from Middle-earth. However, I still foster those embers of being a hipster-at-heart, and stuck with Elrond, Master of Healing. However, with how many legends have started to release, it means there are way more of those commanders than before. Before I started to stick with reviews, I wrote the Underdog's Corner, a series that covered underrated and overlooked commanders. However, that doesn't mean much any with how much talent we've brought on and my series has been dusty and shelved for a few years. Mason Brantley, and I'm one of EDHREC's first writers. Finally, the Nazgûl are deathtouch blockers who keep big scary things away until we make our small scary thing. Call of the Ring is basically Phyrexian Arena, which is great, because this deck desperately needs to draw cards. ![]() Frodo Baggins, (yes, there's another one, and yes it's confusing,) can pull blockers out of the way for cool Frodo. Temptationsįrodo, Adventurous Hobbit is actually our best way to get the Ring to full, but if we need to quicken the clock, there's some cards with great utility. But if we need that mana quickly, Rain of Filth and Culling Ritual can provide it in the blink of an eye. Some of the little dorks are here, most notably Delighted Halfling, who can prevent our commander from being countered. ![]() Mother of Runes and her daughter are perfect, but we really just need godhood for one turn, so Brave the Elements and Cliffside Rescuer also work pretty well.Mana, Quickly!This deck is only going to win games when all but one other player have been knocked out, but still, getting Frodo out there is mana intensive, so the deck is packed with ramp. The most efficient means of keeping Frodo on the board is giving him protection from certain colors, and that also happens to be the best way of getting him through blockers. But I guarantee that this has a higher success rate than running him out where everyone can see. If that sounds really tough to do, that's because it is. We're gonna look real innocent with our precon Frodo and Sam chilling out and making food, until turn six or so, when we blitz Frodo out of our hand, Dark Ritual his abilities up, and rush him under someone's defences. We're just not going to play Frodo, Sauron's Bane at all. So what do we do? How are we going to not look like we want to one-shot someone? Well, here's the trick. If I see that thing in the command zone, I know what I'm saving my removal for. With Frodo heading your deck, you're not even getting that far. Even if you have your Lightning Greaves on the hobbit, the board is probably going to get wiped before you decide who to take out. But now you're facing down the interaction of three other players. With the ideal hand, you can put Frodo into play on turn one, cast Call of the Ring on turn two, and then maybe three turns later, you have all the temptations and you've upgraded Frodo to the danger zone. I threw together a mock up, and quickly realized the deck was never going to function. ![]()
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