Bilbo's Gambit
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The Hobbit #5 (rare)
- Price
- $1.20 USD
Gift a Treasure (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Treasure token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Return target spell to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, players can't cast spells this turn.
Bilbo's Gambit has 2 printings, first in The Hobbit (2026). EDHREC ranks it #4,159 among Commander cards. It appears most in Thorin, King of Durin's Folk decks (3,221 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Bilbo's Gambit most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Thorin, King of Durin's Folk: 3,221 decks
- Bard, King of Dale: 1,580 decks
- Dack Fayden, Helping Hand: 1,553 decks
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant: 1,470 decks
- Dáin of the Ancient Halls: 797 decks
- Ms. Bumbleflower: 704 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel: 616 decks
- The Queen of Dale: 548 decks
Often played with Bilbo's Gambit
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : As an additional cost to cast a spell with gift, you can promise the listed gift to an opponent. That opponent is chosen as part of that additional cost. The gift isn't given at this time; rather, it's given at a later time based on whether or not the spell is a permanent spell.
- : If a spell for which the gift was promised is countered, doesn't resolve (perhaps because all of its targets are illegal), or is otherwise removed from the stack, the gift won't be given. None of its other effects will happen either.
- : "Gift a Treasure" causes the chosen opponent to create a Treasure token.
- : If you copy a spell for which the gift was promised, the gift was also promised to the same player for the copy. If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent that's already on the battlefield, the gift isn't promised for that new permanent, even if it was promised for the original.
- : For instants and sorceries with gift, the gift is given to the appropriate opponent as part of the resolution of the spell. This happens before any of the spell's other effects would take place.
- : You can't pay a gift cost more than once.