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The Notary Hobbits
Legendary Creature — Halfling Advisor · {3}{G}{G} · Green commander
When The Notary Hobbits enter, if they're not a token, create two tokens that are copies of them, except the tokens aren't legendary.
{T}: Add {C} for each Halfling you control.
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What The Notary Hobbits actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · otherWhen The Notary Hobbits enter, if they're not a token, create two tokens that are copies of them, except the tokens aren't legendary.
- Activated ability{T}: Add {C} for each Halfling you control.
What a The Notary Hobbits deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
- halfling creatures (its text counts them)
The The Notary Hobbits deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 27× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for The Notary Hobbits
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Meandering Towershell5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Delighted Halfling1 mana
- Prosperous Innkeeper2 mana
- Peregrin Took3 mana
- Feasting Hobbit2 mana
- Meriadoc Brandybuck2 mana
- Erinis, Gloom Stalker3 mana
- Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator3 mana
- Brandywine Farmer3 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
- Wood Elves3 mana
- Badgermole Cub2 mana
- Elvish Visionary2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Hurricane1 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Season of Gathering6 mana
- Gale Force5 mana
- Corrosive Gale1 mana
- Tropical Storm1 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Elemental Bond3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
Combos with The Notary Hobbits
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Notary Hobbits is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- The Notary Hobbits + Staff Of Domination625 decks
- The Notary Hobbits + Umbral Mantle428 decks
- The Notary Hobbits + Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Pili-Pala214 decks
- The Notary Hobbits + Food Chain + Thousand-Year Elixir152 decks
- The Notary Hobbits + Food Chain + Concordant Crossroads148 decks
- The Notary Hobbits + Food Chain + Shang-Chi, Master Of Kung Fu139 decks