Card text
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.
//
Create X 2/2 red Dwarf creature tokens. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.)
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Mana cost
{2}{W}{W} // {X}{2}{W}
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Card text
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.
//
Create X 2/2 red Dwarf creature tokens. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.)
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About An Unexpected Party
This page covers the extended art printing of An Unexpected Party (289), an White Enchantment // Sorcery — Adventure from The Hobbit (HOB). It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 6 more formats.
We track no other printing of 289 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
The Hobbit is a main expansion, released August 2026. An Unexpected Party has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2. // Create X 2/2 red Dwarf creature tokens. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.)
Card details
- Card number
- 289
- Set
- The Hobbit (HOB)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 14 August 2026
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Extended Art
- Type line
- Enchantment // Sorcery — Adventure
- Colour
- White
- Colour identity
- White
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}{W} // {X}{2}{W}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: An Unexpected Party
Other printings of An Unexpected Party in The Hobbit
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An Unexpected Party in other sets
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