cast it on Turn 3, and assuming you make your fourth land drop the next turn, you can cast Astor and have that one extra mana available
Once your end step begins, it's too late to make a card leave your graveyard in order to cause this ability to trigger
Mardu Outrider gets to lean on Arenas interface to ensure new players are ready to pay the mandatory cost, rather than have them be surprised when it enters the battlefield and demands a card as payment
This definitely has some synergy with damage modifiers such as Fiery Emancipation and Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, but I cant help but feel like the most diabolic use for this card would be alongside Korvold, Fae-Cursed King and Squandered Resources or Rain of Filth
If you can find it on eBay, youre likely to get a better price than TCG, but hopefully thats not news to you
Life gain decks in Commander often get dismissed as durdly (except when you're planning to flash in a Felidar Sovereign), but Bilbo gives the archetype a legitimate payoff worth chasing
