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Bilbo, Retired Burglar

Bilbo, Retired Burglar

Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue · {1}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

When Bilbo enters or leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you. Whenever Bilbo deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token.
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What Bilbo, Retired Burglar actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Bilbo, Retired Burglar deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Bilbo, Retired Burglar deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Bilbo, Retired Burglar

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.

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Archetype of Imagination6 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  5. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  6. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  7. Frostcliff Siege3 mana
  8. Infiltrator's Magemark3 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Norin the Wary1 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Gossip's Talent2 mana
  5. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
  6. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  7. Voyager Staff1 mana
  8. Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  2. Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
  3. Dualcaster Mage3 mana
  4. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  5. Dire Fleet Daredevil2 mana
  6. Fear of Missing Out2 mana
  7. Goblin Engineer2 mana
  8. Snapcaster Mage2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Crush1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Jilt2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Chain Reaction4 mana
  3. Street Spasm1 mana
  4. Desynchronization4 mana
  5. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  6. Whelming Wave4 mana
  7. Consuming Tide4 mana
  8. Selective Obliteration5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  7. Rhystic Study3 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Commander's Plate1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Akroma's Memorial7 mana

Combos with Bilbo, Retired Burglar

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Bilbo, Retired Burglar is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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