Goblin-town Flunkies
1RCreature
Practice · The Hobbit
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Packs are dealt from validated Play Booster slotsDrills
Choose two cards together. Name each card’s job, the support it needs, and the cards you would hope to see next.
Bilbo's Deadly Slice
1BBInstant
Ordinary Bear
3GCreature
Velvetwing Butterflies
2WCreature
Crude Bent Blade
2BArtifact
Stony-Voiced Goblins
1BCreature
Ravening Warg
1BCreature
Misty Mountains Raider
4RCreature
Thranduil, Sindarin Liege
2G/UG/UCreature
Gnashing of Teeth
1BBSorcery
Hobbit Hole
Land
Bilbo's Gambit
1WInstant
Smaug, the Great Calamity
5RRCreature
Forest
Land
Not an odds simulation or a recorded draft · Wizards: Collecting The Hobbit ↗
Real decisions
2 decisionsRecorded Pick-Two decisions, dated and timestamped.
Pick-Two Draft
An early card can break a close comparison
After opening Bard’s Company and Goblin Plate Mail, Numot takes Mirkwood Pathmaker as his strongest option. For the second card, he compares several playables and chooses Plunder the Trollshaws to preserve a possible blue-white deck. The lesson: let an early card break a close comparison without treating it as a commitment.
Bard's Company
Goblin Plate Mail
Mirkwood Pathmaker
Plunder the Trollshaws
Dreaded Bat-Cloud
Bifur, Melodic Rider
Long Lake NuisanceNumotTheNummy · Aug 231:16–2:08 · recorded Pick-Two decision →
Pick-Two Draft
Check the support before taking the payoff
With a mostly blue-white pool in pack three, Numot checks his existing draw effects before accepting Lakeshore Apothecary’s payoff. He then explains why he prefers another Velvetwing Butterflies to Dwarven Shortsword. The lesson: evaluate a conditional card against what you already drafted, and make the second pick serve that deck too.
Lakeshore Apothecary
Velvetwing Butterflies
Dwarven ShortswordPlunder the Trollshaws
Patient InstructorBard's Company
Thrór's Map
Bilbo Baggins, Burglar
Confusticate and BebotherThe pack, drafted support and narrated comparison were reviewed; the final selection click was not observed.
NumotTheNummy · Aug 238:00–8:20 · narrated comparison →
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Watch
2 videosStart with the first two. Use the long reviews only for a color or an interaction you want to understand better.
Start here · about 24 min
Nizzahon: archetypes & mechanics
Learn the recurring mechanics and what the colors are trying to do. This is an early-format overview; use the later deck lessons for developed strategy.
Then go deeper · start at 31:01
Limited Resources 871
Marshall Sutcliffe and Paul Cheon’s late-format conversation. Listen for support, coherent decks, and why a card’s role matters more than a blanket ranking.
31:01Color pairs in retrospect33:58Revisiting initial card evaluations42:54Apothecary and its support1:19:57Bombs, support and splashing in Sealed
The conversation includes Sealed experience; these selected jumps are not recorded draft picks.
The deck plans draw on late-format draft guides and discussions. The step-by-step lessons apply those ideas to the actual card text. Exact card pairings are examples, not measured combination win rates.