Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
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A strong value common: Take a Glance smooths your draw, then Bilbo provides a 2/1 body while replacing itself. The body is fragile, but getting selection, board presence, and a card from one slot makes this an excellent blue role-player.
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Gameplay notes
Cast Take a Glance early when you need to fix upcoming draws, then leave Bilbo in exile until its body is useful or you can trigger a second-draw payoff. When holding the complete card later, casting the creature half before combat can enable Lake-town Toymaker or similar effects.
Key synergies
Each Saga chapter can blink Bilbo, causing it to enter again at the end step and draw another card. This turns the expendable 2/1 into a repeatable card-advantage engine.
After Take a Glance exiles this card, Bilbo, Thief in the Night reduces the creature half's cost from three mana to two, making the full value sequence much more efficient.
Casting Bilbo before combat draws your second card of the turn after your normal draw step, immediately enabling Toymaker's +3/+0 and first strike trigger.
Bilbo's enters-the-battlefield draw places an additional +1/+1 counter on Ravenhill Flock while still leaving behind a creature.
Casting Bilbo after the normal draw step makes his enters-the-battlefield draw the second card of the turn, triggering Bard's counter and lifelink ability.
After Bilbo has been cast as a creature, Gone Fishing can blink him to draw another card from his enters-the-battlefield ability while also protecting or reusing a second permanent.
Elrond can blink Bilbo Baggins to retrigger its enters ability and draw another card, while also temporarily protecting Bilbo.
When Bilbo enters outside the draw step, Bard replaces his one-card draw with two cards, substantially increasing the value of the Adventure creature.
Casting Bilbo after the draw step makes his enters-the-battlefield draw your second card, immediately triggering the Councillors' mill.