Bilbo's Deadly Slice

Name: Bilbo's Deadly Slice
Brand: Magic: The Gathering
SKU: 17892c93-b9b2-4720-933b-998ed0200492
Price: 0.14 USD
Availability: InStock

The Hobbit #62

Type: Instant

Mana cost: {1}{B}{B}

Card text: Destroy target creature.

Rarity: common

Artist: Henry Peters

"Before the spider knew what was happening, it felt Bilbo's sting and rolled off the branch, dead."

Released: August 14, 2026

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Format Legality

Format	Legality
Standard	✓ Legal
Pioneer	✓ Legal
Modern	✓ Legal
Legacy	✓ Legal
Commander	✓ Legal
Vintage	✓ Legal
Pauper	✓ Legal
Oathbreaker	✓ Legal

Draft & Sealed Synergies

Best cards to pair with Bilbo's Deadly Slice in The Hobbit limited

common

Stir Up Trouble

Sorcery

Both are removal spells in black that destroy creatures, giving a black-based deck multiple ways to clear the board. Having redundant removal is critical in limited to handle threats.

Front Porch Sentries

Creature — Goblin Soldier

Front Porch Sentries gives a -1/-1 effect when it dies, and pairing it with Bilbo's Deadly Slice to kill an opponent's creature while the Sentries' death trigger weakens another creates a two-for-one scenario. Together they provide efficient removal coverage.

Great Fierce Bee

Creature — Insect

Great Fierce Bee scries 1 whenever other creatures die, so using Bilbo's Deadly Slice to kill an opponent's creature triggers the Bee's scry ability, helping filter your draws. This turns removal into card quality improvement.

uncommon

Gollum the Abandoned

Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror

Gollum the Abandoned exiles a card from an opponent's graveyard when it enters, and Bilbo's Deadly Slice puts creatures into that graveyard for Gollum to exile, denying recursion. Together they control the opponent's graveyard resources.

rare

The Master of Lake-town

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

The Master of Lake-town causes players to mill cards equal to life lost, and Bilbo's Deadly Slice killing a creature can cause life loss through combat or other effects, but more directly The Master mills when damage is dealt, making removal spells that clear blockers help push through damage and mill. The Master also draws cards based on graveyards with 7+ cards, which removal helps fill.

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