Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant: Legendary Creature - Halfling Rogue, Tales of Middle-earth Commander. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {W}{B}{G}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Halfling Rogue
- Colour identity
- White, black and green (WBG)
- Power / toughness
- 2/3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Collector number
- 48
- Artist
- Billy Christian
- Commander rank
- 7,182 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white, black and green legendary creature from Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC), a Commander product released in June 2023. It is collector number 48 in that set, with art by Billy Christian. It costs {W}{B}{G} (one white, one black and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/3 creature. Its colour identity is white, black and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Tales of Middle-earth Commander is its only printing so far. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.33 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
{2}{W}{B}{G}, {T}, Exile Bilbo: Search your library for any number of creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only if you have 111 or more life.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.33 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #451 | Rare | 2023 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #131 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant, newest first.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant's first ability to apply, even though it will cause your team's life total to increase.
- Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant's first ability applies just once to each life-gaining event, no matter how much life is gained. If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant applies only once.
- Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant's first ability will apply to those two events separately. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will apply only once.
- If you somehow control two Bilbo, Birthday Celebrants and you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 2. A third Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant has you gain that much life plus 3, and so on.
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Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.