Hobbit's Sting

Instant

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.

"One for the Shire!" cried Aragorn. "The Hobbit's bite is deep! You have a good blade, Frodo son of Drogo!"

Legality

Legal in: Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH, Standard Brawl

2023-06-16 If a Food you control is also a creature, it will be counted twice.
2024-11-08 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).
2024-11-08 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.
2024-11-08 Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
2024-11-08 Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Hobbit's Sting in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR), Premier Draft	55.2%	-0.4	+1.2	66218
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR), Sealed	57.3%	+0.6	+1.9	3179

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen