THE FUSE

All the cards in Magic: The Gathering‘s The Hobbit set have been revealed. And as I perused the set looking for interesting mechanics, fun card synergies, or just cool art, I had a realization: they made Bilbo Baggins hot. There have been cards featuring Middle Earth’s number one burglar before, but they featured him as the older, distinguished gentleman he was in Lord of the Rings. He’s younger in The Hobbit, and MTG’s artists have illustrated him accordingly, turning Bilbo into a stone-cold silver fox.