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Lobelia, Defender of Bag End

Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

When Lobelia enters, look at the top card of each opponent's library and exile those cards face down.

T, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one —

• Until end of turn, you may play a card exiled with Lobelia without paying its mana cost.

• Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-06-16

    You may look at these face-down exiled cards any time you wish. No other player may look at the face-down cards you exiled with Lobelia, Defender of Bag End, even if another player takes control of it.

  • 2023-06-16

    If Lobelia, Defender of Bag End leaves the battlefield, and later another Lobelia, Defender of Bag End enters the battlefield, it is a new object (even if the two were represented by the same card). You can't play cards exiled by the original Lobelia, Defender of Bag End with the second ability of the new Lobelia, Defender of Bag End.

  • 2023-06-16

    If the spell has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • 2023-06-16

    To play a card using the permission granted by the first mode of Lobelia, Defender of Bag End's activated ability, you must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can play a land from exile this way only during your main phase while the stack is empty, and only if you have an available land play remaining for the turn.

  • 2023-06-16

    If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Lobelia, Defender of Bag End, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 1 0 —
Sam, Loyal Attendant 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Abzan 1 deck

Every version of Lobelia, Defender of Bag End

3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lobelia, Defender of Bag End — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.