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Art by Colin Boyer
Colin Boyer

Balin, Loremaster

The Hobbit #87
Rare Non-foil Traditional foil EN

Released · Illustrated by Colin Boyer

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Non-foil

$0.26 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-10-11
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.22 as of 2026-10-12
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-10-11
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.26 as of 2026-10-12

Traditional foil

$0.47 High confidence
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.31 as of 2026-10-12
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-10-11
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  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-10-11

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Price history

Foil

7 d +34.3% 30 d +23.7%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 12 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

Non-foil

7 d -18.8% 30 d -25.7%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 12 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

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Oracle text

Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.)
Whenever Balin or another Dwarf you control enters, you may discard your hand. Draw X cards, where X is the number of cards discarded this way. If you have an enduring story, Balin deals X damage to each opponent.

Legalities

Legal Not legal

Standard
Pioneer
Modern
Legacy
Vintage
Pauper
Premodern
Old School
Future
Commander
Duel Commander
Oathbreaker
Pauper Commander
PreDH
Brawl
Standard Brawl
Historic
Timeless
Alchemy
Gladiator
Penny Dreadful
tlr
competitivebrawl

Identifiers and data

Scryfall id
42d7ca7b-c983-40fd-ad57-59f6972bb375
Oracle id
0d420e41-43e9-41d6-832c-5a9f410c994e
Illustration id
e2b626a4-9f4b-492f-aec8-987169074b2f
Card back id
0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
MTGO id
154104
Arena id
103463
TCGplayer id
709500
Cardmarket id
900625
MTGJSON uuid
58754952-1262-548e-aab6-81319458058e
Card Kingdom id
330976
Set code
HOB
Collector number
87
Layout
normal
Frame
2015
Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Promo types
universesbeyond
Frame effects
legendary
Booster
No
Games
paper, mtgo, arena
Story spotlight
No
Reserved list
No
EDHREC rank
10688
Preview source
Nerd of the Rings
Preview date
2026-07-29

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Other printings

The Hobbit #301