Printings
Hobbit's Sting
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 20
Oracle 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 Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 8, 2024
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).
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
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.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
Source: wotc - June 16, 2023
If a Food you control is also a creature, it will be counted twice.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.