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The Notary Hobbits
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A five-mana package of three 1/1 Halflings that threatens explosive mana production: if all three survive a turn, they can collectively produce nine colorless mana. It is a powerful build-around ramp engine, though slow, color-intensive, and vulnerable to sweepers or removal before untapping.
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Gameplay notes
The original and its copies all have summoning sickness, so they cannot produce mana immediately. With no other Halflings, untapping with all three lets each tap for three colorless mana, for nine total; prioritize expensive colorless costs or activated abilities because this mana cannot pay colored requirements.
Key synergies
Radagast reduces the Notary's cost from five to three mana and lets it be cast with flash. Casting it during the opponent's end step allows all three Hobbits to untap ready to produce at least nine colorless mana.
Each chapter can blink the original nontoken Notary; when it returns, it creates two fresh copies while the previous token copies remain, rapidly multiplying both the board and the mana output.
Bard doubles the Notary's two copy tokens into four. That leaves five Notaries, each counting all five Halflings and therefore capable of producing a combined 25 colorless mana after they can tap.
The Notary Hobbits provide three creatures from one card, immediately adding three bodies to the Eagle's attack bonus and rebuilding the wide board it needs.
Gone Fishing can blink the original nontoken Notary Hobbits, causing it to create two additional copies when it returns while preserving all previously created tokens.
The Notary Hobbits immediately provide three Halflings, giving an Orcrist-equipped attacker a substantial Treasure payout by choosing Halfling, while Orcrist's stat boost and trample help one of the small bodies connect.
The two token copies entering trigger Belladonna twice, producing 1 life and a card; Belladonna is also another Halfling, increasing the mana generated by every Notary.
The Notary Hobbits create three separate 1/1 creatures, giving Eagle's Rescue several eligible graveyard-recursion targets. Their mana ability also helps pay the Aura's repeated four-mana return cost.
Tapping a Notary Hobbits creature for mana triggers Elrond's draw, allowing the token-producing enters ability to establish multiple repeatable mana sources that can enable Elrond each turn.