Hobbit's Sting
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earthLTR · #20
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.07 € · ★ 0.17 € · 0.19 $ · ★ 0.30 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- White
Card text
Hobbit's Sting deals X damage to target creature, where X is the number of creatures you control plus the number of Foods you control.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Viko Menezes
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-06-23
Flavour text
"One for the Shire!" cried Aragorn. "The Hobbit's bite is deep! You have a good blade, Frodo son of Drogo!"
Rulings
If a Food you control is also a creature, it will be counted twice.
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost).
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.