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  1. Beats and Skies @preconstructedmagic.wordpress.com@preconstructedmagic.wordpress.com ·

    The Hobbit “Story Decks”: the next chapter.

    Been spending a week bit of time on Hobbits today, jamming the Welcome Deck mode in Arena and questioning why they couldn’t port the physical versions card for card? The Black deck was 22 swamps. In a 40 card deck. That’s wild. Also super frustrating is the fact that they don’t bother to publish the lists for the store Brawl decks in the weekly updates any more. Which means screenshoting the deck page in the client, running it through an image-to-text tool, then a whole lot of cleaning up and double checking. I’ve done two, and I’ll do the other two tomorrow I think. Commander fans: worth checking out those decks (once I’ve got everything up on the wiki, obviously) for inspiration. Honestly, I have no idea why they didn’t actually release any this time – but I think I complained about that already in a previous post.

    That works well enough as a segue, so let’s crack on.

    So in the previous post I shared a Thorin’s company themed Dwarf list. But it was clear that you could probably build one around the Iron Hills dwarves too. So I have. That’s what’s happening in this post!

    Dwarrow Detachment

    1 An Unexpected Party
    1 Bifur, Melodic Rider
    1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian
    1 Bombur, Gentle Dreamer
    2 Celebrate the Mountain-king
    1 Dáin Ironfoot
    1 Dáin’s Company
    1 Dori, Bearer of Friends
    1 Dwarven Mattock
    2 Dwarven Mauler
    3 Dwarven Provisioner
    4 Dwarven Shortsword
    1 Fíli the Pathfinder
    1 Glóin the Mighty
    2 Improvised Club
    4 Iron Hills
    2 Iron Hills Blacksmith
    3 Iron Hills Stalwart
    10 Mountain
    1 Ori, Keeper of Songs
    10 Plains
    1 The Lonely Mountain
    1 Thorin, Mountain-king
    2 Thorin’s Last Stand
    3 Vow to Erebor

    Can also be seen on Moxfield.

    It’s worth stating, for posterity, that I’m going for a Starter deck vibe with my lists. Preconesque, even, to the surprise of very few. So this could be better, more consistent, all that stuff. If anyone was inspired to build anything that I post but wanted a higher power level then absolutely go for it: add more copies of the good cards that you’ve enjoyed casting and generally just mess around and make it yours. That was the whole point of theme/intro decks back in the day anyway!

    The Hobbit being a small set really shows, again, I think. I didn’t originally want to reuse a lot of the Legends from the first deck. But clearly I have done so. There just weren’t enough options otherwise, not if I wanted to avoid just jamming full playsets of things in.

    I actually am not sure what else to say about this. Maybe I should have smashed on with writing this the day that I actually brewed up the decks when my mind was still fresh and so I could communicate my thought processes. There were actually quite a few two drops to consider, is one thing I considered. But otherwise this should be a fairly straightfoward RW deck. Play dudes, equip dudes with equipment, attack. Repeat.

    Dwarrow Delegation v2.0

    1 Balin, Loremaster
    1 Bifur, Melodic Rider
    1 Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer
    1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian
    1 Bombur, Gentle Dreamer
    2 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
    1 Dori, Bearer of Friends
    1 Dwalin, Weaponmaster
    2 Dwarven Mattock
    1 Fíli the Pathfinder
    1 Gandalf, Spark Starter
    1 Giant’s Boulder
    1 Glóin the Mighty
    4 Hobbit Hole
    1 Kíli the Resourceful
    10 Mountain
    1 Nori, Teller of Tales
    1 Óin the Brave
    1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
    1 Ori, Keeper of Songs
    3 Pinecone Strike
    10 Plains
    1 Sting, Bilbo’s Sword
    2 Stone by Sunlight
    1 Thorin Oakenshield
    1 Thrór’s Map
    3 Troop of Ponies
    3 Vow to Erebor
    2 Well-Worn Spatula

    And this is the RW version of the previous Dwarf build. Moxfield link here. This is probably significantly better than the WUR original I’d say. And it also indicates to me that I probably should just merge the Iron Hills and Company builds together and that combination will mostly likely be a significant improvement again. Something I’ll have a think about.

    The Greenwood

    2 Attercop
    1 Beorn, Reluctant Host
    2 Beorn’s Hospitality
    1 Boughside Wanderers
    1 Down in the Valley
    1 Elven Passage
    1 Elvish Archdruid
    3 Elvish Mystic
    2 Elvish Visionary
    24 Forest
    1 Gigantic Big Bear
    2 Guardian of the Halls
    1 Mirkwood Elk
    3 Mirkwood Nurturer
    2 Mirkwood Pathmaker
    1 Old Fat Spider
    1 Part in Friendship
    3 Quarrel
    1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege
    1 Through the Forest Gate
    1 Troop of Ponies
    1 Wayfarer’s Bauble
    3 Wood Elves
    1 Woodland Weavemaster

    I was hesitant to just brew up decks which were simply the two-coloured paint-by-numbers draft archetypes baked into the set. But I saw that maybe a monogreen deck could work. This was before the Welcome Deck Duel mode came to Arena, and I now realise that what I’ve put together could just be seen as an upgraded version of that one. But hey: lots of forests and elves… surely nobody in the last 30 years of the game’s existence has thought about making a deck like that, hey?

    Again: small set. The Elf-matters stuff came later, it wasn’t the original plan. My original thought was just to go full in on the land-search type ramp in order to make the Mirkwood Pathfinders huge. Through the Forest Gate being the thing which sold that idea to me. But there’s now a bit of landfall stuff, some fatties at the top of the curve, as well as a touch of that Elf Typal as mentioned. I’m actually fairly happy with it, and it’s got a fairly decent flavour of when the company were hanging around between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood to it. At one point I also had a couple of Warg-ish type cards in the deck too, but I decided to cut those for story reasons.

    And so. Three lists to consider, hopefully that makes up for me not really being able to elaborate as much about how I went about designing these as I think I managed in the first post. But certainly I welcome feed back and thoughts. I’m still not quite ready to commit to physically assembling these, or in fact to adding more decks to this series. I’m curious about the Battle of Five Armies co-op box set apparently coming next year and I’m prepared to wait until we know more about what those decks look like before I go ahead and add customs to my collection. Of course, things change, and I’m actually wondering about the possibility of “De-Commanderising” some of the Arena Brawl decks. In fact, there’s a very good chance that’ll be the next post: I’m feeling a bit of inspiration in that direction.

    Cheers,

    Beats.

    PS: watch this. Good stuff.

    #60CardCasual #books #Elves #fantasy #gaming #IronHills #KitchenTableMagic #MagicTheGathering #Mirkwood #MTG #TheHobbit #travel #writing
  2. Beats and Skies @preconstructedmagic.wordpress.com@preconstructedmagic.wordpress.com ·

    The Hobbit “Story Decks”: the next chapter.

    Been spending a week bit of time on Hobbits today, jamming the Welcome Deck mode in Arena and questioning why they couldn’t port the physical versions card for card? The Black deck was 22 swamps. In a 40 card deck. That’s wild. Also super frustrating is the fact that they don’t bother to publish the lists for the store Brawl decks in the weekly updates any more. Which means screenshoting the deck page in the client, running it through an image-to-text tool, then a whole lot of cleaning up and double checking. I’ve done two, and I’ll do the other two tomorrow I think. Commander fans: worth checking out those decks (once I’ve got everything up on the wiki, obviously) for inspiration. Honestly, I have no idea why they didn’t actually release any this time – but I think I complained about that already in a previous post.

    That works well enough as a segue, so let’s crack on.

    So in the previous post I shared a Thorin’s company themed Dwarf list. But it was clear that you could probably build one around the Iron Hills dwarves too. So I have. That’s what’s happening in this post!

    Dwarrow Detachment

    1 An Unexpected Party
    1 Bifur, Melodic Rider
    1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian
    1 Bombur, Gentle Dreamer
    2 Celebrate the Mountain-king
    1 Dáin Ironfoot
    1 Dáin’s Company
    1 Dori, Bearer of Friends
    1 Dwarven Mattock
    2 Dwarven Mauler
    3 Dwarven Provisioner
    4 Dwarven Shortsword
    1 Fíli the Pathfinder
    1 Glóin the Mighty
    2 Improvised Club
    4 Iron Hills
    2 Iron Hills Blacksmith
    3 Iron Hills Stalwart
    10 Mountain
    1 Ori, Keeper of Songs
    10 Plains
    1 The Lonely Mountain
    1 Thorin, Mountain-king
    2 Thorin’s Last Stand
    3 Vow to Erebor

    Can also be seen on Moxfield.

    It’s worth stating, for posterity, that I’m going for a Starter deck vibe with my lists. Preconesque, even, to the surprise of very few. So this could be better, more consistent, all that stuff. If anyone was inspired to build anything that I post but wanted a higher power level then absolutely go for it: add more copies of the good cards that you’ve enjoyed casting and generally just mess around and make it yours. That was the whole point of theme/intro decks back in the day anyway!

    The Hobbit being a small set really shows, again, I think. I didn’t originally want to reuse a lot of the Legends from the first deck. But clearly I have done so. There just weren’t enough options otherwise, not if I wanted to avoid just jamming full playsets of things in.

    I actually am not sure what else to say about this. Maybe I should have smashed on with writing this the day that I actually brewed up the decks when my mind was still fresh and so I could communicate my thought processes. There were actually quite a few two drops to consider, is one thing I considered. But otherwise this should be a fairly straightfoward RW deck. Play dudes, equip dudes with equipment, attack. Repeat.

    Dwarrow Delegation v2.0

    1 Balin, Loremaster
    1 Bifur, Melodic Rider
    1 Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer
    1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian
    1 Bombur, Gentle Dreamer
    2 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
    1 Dori, Bearer of Friends
    1 Dwalin, Weaponmaster
    2 Dwarven Mattock
    1 Fíli the Pathfinder
    1 Gandalf, Spark Starter
    1 Giant’s Boulder
    1 Glóin the Mighty
    4 Hobbit Hole
    1 Kíli the Resourceful
    10 Mountain
    1 Nori, Teller of Tales
    1 Óin the Brave
    1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
    1 Ori, Keeper of Songs
    3 Pinecone Strike
    10 Plains
    1 Sting, Bilbo’s Sword
    2 Stone by Sunlight
    1 Thorin Oakenshield
    1 Thrór’s Map
    3 Troop of Ponies
    3 Vow to Erebor
    2 Well-Worn Spatula

    And this is the RW version of the previous Dwarf build. Moxfield link here. This is probably significantly better than the WUR original I’d say. And it also indicates to me that I probably should just merge the Iron Hills and Company builds together and that combination will mostly likely be a significant improvement again. Something I’ll have a think about.

    The Greenwood

    2 Attercop
    1 Beorn, Reluctant Host
    2 Beorn’s Hospitality
    1 Boughside Wanderers
    1 Down in the Valley
    1 Elven Passage
    1 Elvish Archdruid
    3 Elvish Mystic
    2 Elvish Visionary
    24 Forest
    1 Gigantic Big Bear
    2 Guardian of the Halls
    1 Mirkwood Elk
    3 Mirkwood Nurturer
    2 Mirkwood Pathmaker
    1 Old Fat Spider
    1 Part in Friendship
    3 Quarrel
    1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege
    1 Through the Forest Gate
    1 Troop of Ponies
    1 Wayfarer’s Bauble
    3 Wood Elves
    1 Woodland Weavemaster

    I was hesitant to just brew up decks which were simply the two-coloured paint-by-numbers draft archetypes baked into the set. But I saw that maybe a monogreen deck could work. This was before the Welcome Deck Duel mode came to Arena, and I now realise that what I’ve put together could just be seen as an upgraded version of that one. But hey: lots of forests and elves… surely nobody in the last 30 years of the game’s existence has thought about making a deck like that, hey?

    Again: small set. The Elf-matters stuff came later, it wasn’t the original plan. My original thought was just to go full in on the land-search type ramp in order to make the Mirkwood Pathfinders huge. Through the Forest Gate being the thing which sold that idea to me. But there’s now a bit of landfall stuff, some fatties at the top of the curve, as well as a touch of that Elf Typal as mentioned. I’m actually fairly happy with it, and it’s got a fairly decent flavour of when the company were hanging around between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood to it. At one point I also had a couple of Warg-ish type cards in the deck too, but I decided to cut those for story reasons.

    And so. Three lists to consider, hopefully that makes up for me not really being able to elaborate as much about how I went about designing these as I think I managed in the first post. But certainly I welcome feed back and thoughts. I’m still not quite ready to commit to physically assembling these, or in fact to adding more decks to this series. I’m curious about the Battle of Five Armies co-op box set apparently coming next year and I’m prepared to wait until we know more about what those decks look like before I go ahead and add customs to my collection. Of course, things change, and I’m actually wondering about the possibility of “De-Commanderising” some of the Arena Brawl decks. In fact, there’s a very good chance that’ll be the next post: I’m feeling a bit of inspiration in that direction.

    Cheers,

    Beats.

    PS: watch this. Good stuff.

    #60CardCasual #books #Elves #fantasy #gaming #IronHills #KitchenTableMagic #MagicTheGathering #Mirkwood #MTG #TheHobbit #travel #writing
  3. Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

    I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

    The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

    Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

    The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

    You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

    #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #AppalachianMountains #banshee #banshees #CornishFolklore #Elves #Fairies #Fairy #folklore #gnomes #history #Irish #Kentucky #Maryland #Ohio #Pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaDutch #ScotsIrish #tommyknocker #tommyknockers #Virginia #WestVirginia
  4. Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

    I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

    The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

    Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

    The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

    You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

    #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #AppalachianMountains #banshee #banshees #CornishFolklore #Elves #Fairies #Fairy #folklore #gnomes #history #Irish #Kentucky #Maryland #Ohio #Pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaDutch #ScotsIrish #tommyknocker #tommyknockers #Virginia #WestVirginia
  5. Someone is paddling around in the shower and putting wet paw prints all over the floor

    #elves

  6. Someone is paddling around in the shower and putting wet paw prints all over the floor

    #elves

  7. Tales & Tastes return to Kickstarter with Elvish Culinary Traditions. Elven herbs and spices, secret recipes and 35+ dishes. Enough to fill a bucket, a family, or just your sad lonely face. Funding now. #crowdfundQuest #crowdfunding #kickstarter #cookBook #elves #kfc
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/fant

  8. Add a touch of synchronicity.

    Post below links to an article that glosses the literary history of elves.

    I went and found the 1691-1815 book, performed as an audiobook.
    By - surprise to me - Joey DeNoia.

    #Synchronicity #JoeyDeNoia #Elves #TheSecretCommonwealth
    universeodon.com/@Virginicus/1

  9. A hidden domain deep in the forest where elves reside. Concealed by ancient magic, only those granted permission may ever find this place. To any other, they only ever see a lush, dark forest.

    youtu.be/SPoybd4Yytw

    #composer #fantasy #musician #music #vgm #fantasymusic #classicalmusic #originalmusic #originalcomposition #instrumental #gamedev #elven #elf #elves #dndmusic #dnd #harp #recorder #mystical #magical

  10. The mountain awakens! Jane as a Norse Elven Queen and Shingling the Doom Robot announce the eruption of Mount Hekla in Iceland. #janeandshingling #transgender #elves #iceland #aiart

  11. Whill of Agora "It is the year 5170 in the land Agora, where humans, dwarves, and elves have existed in peace for centuries" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Michael Ploof Rating: 4.3/5 (1,657 Reviews) #Fantasy #Epic #YA #Adventure #Dragons #Free #Elves #Dwarves #ComingOfAge #BookSky

    Whill of Agora: Book 1