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Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer

Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer

Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue · {3}{W} · White commander

Bilbo can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. Whenever Bilbo deals combat damage to a player or battle, put up to one target nonland permanent card with mana value 3 or less from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.
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What Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer actually does

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What a Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer deck wants

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Best cards for Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer

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. Delney, Streetwise Lookout3 mana
  2. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  5. Shadowspear1 mana
  6. Jackdaw Savior3 mana
  7. Toby, Beastie Befriender3 mana
  8. Akroma's Memorial7 mana

A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Guide of Souls1 mana
  2. Adeline, Resplendent Cathar3 mana
  3. Ainok Strike Leader2 mana
  4. Jacked Rabbit2 mana
  5. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  6. Mangara, the Diplomat4 mana
  7. Weathered Sentinels3 mana
  8. Battle Angels of Tyr4 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Crawling Chorus1 mana
  3. Doomed Traveler1 mana
  4. Hunted Witness1 mana
  5. Summon the School4 mana
  6. Urza's Saga0 mana
  7. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  8. Furious Forebear2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Mindcrank2 mana
  3. Codex Shredder1 mana
  4. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  5. Trenchpost0 mana
  6. Mesmeric Orb2 mana
  7. Millikin2 mana
  8. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Erode1 mana
  7. Getaway Glamer1 mana
  8. Unwanted Remake1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Harsh Mercy3 mana
  8. Retribution of the Meek3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Templar Knight2 mana
  4. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Loyal Tutor1 mana
  7. Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
  8. Search for Glory3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  4. Smothering Tithe4 mana
  5. The One Ring4 mana
  6. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Caretaker's Talent3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Greater Auramancy2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Cryptothrall4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

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