Bilbo's Gambit

Instant

Gift a Treasure. (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Treasure token before this spell's other effects. It's a colourless artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any colour.")

Return target spell to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, players can't cast spells this turn.

Tokens

• Treasure

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

NensouHiebara on Cloud | Mercenary Voltron

2 months ago

@gzusvictory

White's card draw is orders of magnitude better than it was when I first built this deck. Back then there was so little available that I had no choice but to heavily supplement the deck colourless engines and two-card value pairs to fulfil the need.

Things started changing for the better about a decade ago. Now there's plenty of card draw to work with, such as punishing opponents for performing certain actions, rewarding you for attacking with multiple creatures, supporting specific themes, the Monarch mechanic, and sharing with other players for the political angle. White isn't struggling anymore.

I see Swordsman's Steel as a tutorable draw spell first and a P/T-boosting Equipment after the fact. I wouldn't cast it until I had other Equipment on board to get a few cards from it. I don't mind its higher costs when it offers up-front value. Expensive Equipment don't deter me if they're worth the effort.

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I'm not really interested in Bilbo's Gambit. Reprieve works so well as a spell-bounce because it replaces itself. If I wanted a Silence effect, my first choice would be Orim's Chant for its more ease of use and the option to deny an attack.

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Kili the Resourceful is definitely replacing Sram. The more ways to equip for free the better!

gzusvictory on Cloud | Mercenary Voltron

2 months ago

Bilbo's Gambit

Another Remand-esque effect. 2 mana is super reasonable. Can help us protect our things from removal, or buy us an extra turn from an expensive game-winning spell. The gift half of the card can help us resolve our spells during our turn, and attack uninterrupted. If we really wanted to, it could waste a players turn by casting this on the first thing the player tries to play on their turn. The gift part would make it so that they couldn’t just try to play the same card again right away. Also, gifting a treasure is probably the best thing to gift compared to a fish token or a card draw. According to the rules, they will not get the gift if they counter this spell.

Downsides: It does not draw us a card like Reprieve does and the Silence part of the card actually stops us from casting spells for the rest of the turn as well. I am thinking Reprieve is the cut for this card, but I do not hate the idea of cutting something else to keep both in the deck.