The Hobbit's Best Combo Cards Ranked
Ethan CooverAugust 5, 2026
Which of The Hobbit's new cards enable the most Commander combos? The top ten by Commander Spellbook data, from Bilbo to Bard.
Bard, King of Dale | Art by Xabi Gaztelua
Welcome back, my precious, to Wombo Combo, the everlasting series of Commander's best combo cards, ranked by data from EDHREC and Commander Spellbook. This week, we shall pass through the new The Hobbit set!
The Hobbit is the second Magic set exploring Middle-earth, complete with many key characters and archetypes from the original stories. While there are a decent number of reprints from the original The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set, there's also a plethora of new cards bringing strong effects that are sure to become staples in many decks. Let's see what combo cards this Hobbit-centered set has to offer.
#10: Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
Bilbo, Luckwearer has a creature part that allows you to loot when it deals combat damage. It also has an Adventure side which gives you a slightly cheaper version of Shifting Loyalties. The Adventure is more useful for combo purposes, giving opponents control of cards that will ultimately hurt them. Demonic Pact and Archfiend of the Dross are both great options which cause an opponent to lose the game. This effect also works for some locks, such as giving an opponent Moderation while Knowledge Pool is out.
#9: Fateful Discovery
Fateful Discovery is the artifact version of Kindred Discovery, but far stronger overall. Whenever you have an artifact enter, you draw a card as a bonus. Where Fateful Discovery excels is that you draw for any artifact, and you'll draw one card per artifact that enters. So if you play Brass's Bounty and make eight Treasures, you'll also draw eight cards. Mind Over Matter is a perfect pairing with Fateful Discovery, as it'll untap permanents with those cards, including cards like Myr Turbine that can tap to make artifacts for a near-infinite loop. Fateful Discovery can also draw Sensei's Divining Top off the top of your library, which will also result in you drawing your library.
#8: Little Bear
Little Bear's effect is far from unique, being found on many different cards from Corridor Monitor to Bounding Krasis. With that being said, untapping a creature as it enters is still a strong effect, and a staple in decks running Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and/or Splinter Twin. Little Bear can also be copied by Doppelgang, and used to untap other creatures like Echo Mage. Little Bear can also be simply blinked by Displacer Kitten or similar effects to untap large mana dorks like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds for ramping purposes.
#7: Thorin, King of Durin's Folk
If you like Dwarves, then Thorin, King of Durin's Folk is the card for you. Thorin gives you Treasures as Dwarves enter, and boosts their power based on the number of artifact tokens you control. The Treasures can also be forwarded into more Dwarves, which is an easy way to execute a combo with Cloudstone Curio. All you need to add is two Dwarves who aren't artifacts and are castable with one colored mana: Toolcraft Exemplar and Staunch Shieldmate are two perfect examples.
#6: Smaug the Impenetrable
Smaug the Impenetrable is extremely strong, giving you Treasures as it's dealt damage, alongside built-in indestructibility. This creates easy two-card combos with Pyrohemia to deal large amounts of damage, and Mayhem Devil if you already control a Treasure. Chain Lightning is another great option, where you can just keep copying it targeting Smaug over and over again. Throwing a Pariah's Shield on Smaug will redirect all damage that would be dealt to you to Smaug, and gives you Treasures as compensation. This also allows Volcano Hellion to create an excessive amount of Treasure tokens.
#5: Bag End Banquet
Bag End Banquet gives you three Foods and lets you tap it to add for each Food you control. It's an amazing option for Food-centered decks, such as decks helmed by Ygra, Eater of All or Sam, Loyal Attendant. The scalability of the mana production opens up more combo possibilities, like copying it with Chrome Dome or Cogwork Assembler. Animating Bag End Banquet (with Ensoul Artifact, for example) also allows it to be infinitely untapped by Voltaic Construct.
#4: Thranduil the Strategist
Thranduil the Strategist is one of several landfall cards that create creature tokens, joining a list that also includes Dancing from Dark to Dawn, Thranduil, Sindarin Liege and Down in the Valley. These cards are commonly included alongside Kodama of the East Tree, as the tokens will trigger Kodama to put lands onto the battlefield. This creates more landfall triggers, putting more lands onto the battlefield with the creature tokens, and so forth. Bouncelands like Simic Growth Chamber are great options for infinitely playing and bouncing lands. Thranduil the Strategist itself also lets Elves tap for mana, working alongside Intruder Alarm for good amounts of mana.
#3: The Great Goblin
The Great Goblin provides large amounts of utility for Goblin decks: flinging damage as you fling Goblins, and impulsive draw to boot. The first ability turns into a damage cannon when paired with The Red Terror after it's made into a Goblin by Maskwood Nexus. The second ability is perfect for Mortuary, as the Goblin that died can then be exiled and played again. Coupled with Skirk Prospector, Impulsive Pilferer or one-drop Goblins and Pitiless Plunderer, you have a simple combo casting creatures from exile.
#2: Elven Raft-Steerer
If you like Retreat to Coralhelm's untapping combo shenanigans, then Elven Raft-Steerer gives you another option! From untapping Walking Atlas-style creatures to Zimone and Dina and everything in between, a strong effect in Landfall decks can now appear twice. Being on a creature does give you more options for fetching and/or cheating it out, thanks to Worldly Tutor style cards. The downside to Elven Raft-Steerer over Retreat to Coralhelm is that it'll be more susceptible to removal spells, but running both in a deck together gives a great chance of the effect sticking around.
#1: Bard, King of Dale
What's better than a token doubler? A token doubler and a card draw doubler on the same body! Token doublers are some of the most useful combo cards, and almost every deck benefits from drawing more cards. Both of these together make Bard an easy inclusion, even if you don't play with infinite combos. From using it alongside Smothering Tithe for more Treasures, to pairing it with Mind Over Matter for infinite card draw combos, there's certainly no shortage of combos that can be performed. If you're looking at The Hobbit and wanting a strong combo commander, Bard may very well be your best option.
Honorable Mentions
Still scouring the shire for more combo options? Here are a few more for your reading pleasure:
1. Gleaming Splendor: A great card for group hug decks, and lets you profit off an opponent drawing multiple cards. Smothering Tithe is a perfect pairing with this card as well.
2. The Notary Hobbits: A decent mana dork in its own right, especially since it makes two copies of itself. In Halfling decks or those running decent token doubling, the amount of mana can spiral very quickly.
3. Bilbo, Thief in the Night: Makes spells not cast from your hand cheaper, adding a benefit to topdeck effects like The Reality Chip or recursion effects like Muldrotha, the Gravetide.
4. The Master of Lake-town: An easy way to mill opponents as they lose life. Pair with Bloodchief Ascension to likely kill an opponent.
Thank you very much for reading this edition of Wombo Combo, and don't forget to check out Commander Spellbook for more Commander combos and visit the Commander Spellbook Discord to submit your own Commander combos. Until next time, happy comboing!