About this episode

This episode provides a comprehensive guide to drafting in the Hobbit format for Magic: the Gathering.

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got the Hobbit Crash Course to get you everything you need to know for your first limited event of the format! We’ve got big picture format truths, color and archetype identities, top commons and uncommons, as well as sleeper commons! What You’ll Get in This Episode: The Hobbit Big Picture Summaries Archetype and Color Power Rankings Secret Off Color Strategies This episode is sponsored by Square. Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/lol

People in this episode

Host: Lords of Limited

Topics covered

• drafting
• Magic: the Gathering
• Hobbit format
• archetypes
• color identities
• commons
• uncommons

Keywords

• Hobbit Crash Course
• drafting
• Magic: the Gathering
• archetype identities
• top commons
• sleeper commons
• color strategies

Sponsors

Square

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Hobbit

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