Tidings of War
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A strong value common that provides a 1/1 Army early, then returns for four mana to add three more counters. It is especially effective in BR Amass, though concentrating its value on one Army makes that creature vulnerable to removal.
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Gameplay notes
Cast it early when you need a body, but remember that later amass effects usually enlarge the same Army rather than creating additional creatures. If your Army is likely to die, trading it off before flashback can let the second casting create a fresh 3/3 Army.
Key synergies
Tidings is a noncreature spell on both casts, so Noisemaker amasses an additional 1 each time; together, the first cast adds two power and the flashback cast adds four.
Bilbo can cast Tidings from the graveyard for its normal one-mana cost when he attacks; because it was cast from a graveyard, it amasses 3 rather than 1.
Each casting of Tidings puts counters on a Goblin or Army, triggering The Great Goblin for 2 damage; casting both halves can produce two separate triggers.
Tidings of War creates or enlarges a Goblin Army with +1/+1 counters, and its flashback can add three more counters later; Great Ugly-Looking Goblin gives that increasingly large Army menace so its accumulated power is harder to contain.
Tidings provides two separate Gandalf triggers through its initial cast and flashback, adding two total pings and temporary pumps while building a Goblin Army.
Casting Tidings via flashback exiles it from the graveyard after resolution, triggering Along the Crooked Way to amass 1 in addition to Tidings' amass 3.
If Tidings goes into the graveyard pile, it remains castable via flashback and produces the upgraded amass Goblins 3 effect.
Speak Secrets can mill Tidings of War into the graveyard, enabling its flashback mode to amass Goblins 3 rather than 1 while still retrieving another instant or sorcery.