The first of two Hobbit Scene Boxes has arrived at prerelease events starting August 7, 2026: Crack the Plates, a $44.99 sealed product built around Bag End’s most chaotic dinner party. Six Traditional Foil Borderless cards piece together into a single panoramic image of Bilbo trying to save his dinnerware from thirteen uninvited dwarves, and every card in that panorama is fully playable. Here is every card in the box, in panorama order, with what it actually does.
What’s in the box: 6 Traditional Foil Borderless Scene cards (forming the panorama), 6 matching Art Cards for display, 3 The Hobbit Play Boosters, and a paper display easel. $44.99 MSRP, available starting the August 7 prerelease weekend.
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Every Card in Crack the Plates, in Panorama Order
Fíli and Kíli, Joyous
{2}{R} · Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard · 3/3
Haste, plus a mana ability that taps for {R}{R} restricted to Dwarf, Equipment, and Saga spells. The card depicts both brothers as a single creature, and mechanically it behaves like a two-for-one: it attacks the turn it enters thanks to haste, and from then on doubles as a dedicated mana dork for a Dwarf shell.
The restriction sounds narrow, but in a deck actually built around Dwarves and their Equipment — which is exactly what this box and the Thorin, Mountain-king precon push toward — the vast majority of your spells qualify. Two red mana on turn three is real acceleration into a five-drop like Thorin, King of Durin’s Folk or Ori, Plate Stacker a turn early.
Gandalf, Party Guest
{1}{U}{R}{W} · Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · 3/4
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may cast a free instant or sorcery with mana value up to twice your legendary Wizard count. With two legendary Wizards on the battlefield that is a free four-mana spell every single combat; with three, a free six-mana spell. It does not exile itself after use and does not require you to control any specific card type beyond Wizards, so the engine only gets stronger as a Wizard-heavy board develops.
This is the strongest Commander payoff in Crack the Plates because it is repeatable rather than a one-time effect. Jeskai Wizards has never been a deep archetype in paper Magic, but Gandalf gives it a genuine payoff: stack up legendary Wizards from across Magic’s card pool — not just this set — and every combat becomes a free spell. The body itself, a 3/4 for four mana, is unremarkable, but the ability is doing all the work.
Thorin, King of Durin’s Folk
{3}{W}{W} · Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble · 4/4
Whenever Thorin or another Dwarf you control enters, create a Treasure token, and other Dwarves you control get +1/+0 for each artifact token you control. That second clause is the key: the Treasures this same card generates directly buff the rest of your board, so every new Dwarf both adds a body and permanently strengthens every other Dwarf you already control.
This is a deliberately different Commander plan than Thorin, Mountain-king from the main set, who wants Equipment stacked onto a single threat. King of Durin’s Folk wants a wide board of cheap Dwarves and rewards flooding the battlefield rather than building one big creature — the Treasures also double as ramp into your five-and-six-drops once the attack starts stalling. At {3}{W}{W} he is mono-white, which under Commander color identity rules restricts the rest of the deck to white and colorless cards only — Fíli and Kíli, Joyous (a red card) would not even be legal in that 99, but Ori, Plate Stacker fits cleanly as a fellow white Dwarf.
Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
{2}{G} · Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen · 2/3
A static replacement effect: every Food token you would create also comes with a Treasure token attached. It is cheap, colorless-agnostic value at {2}{G}, and because it is a continuous replacement rather than a one-time trigger, it upgrades every Food source you control for the rest of the game — including Bag End Banquet later in the same box.
Any Food-matters build elsewhere in The Hobbit’s card pool effectively becomes a Treasure deck the moment Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator resolves, turning a lifegain-flavored subtheme into real mana acceleration. At a 2/3 body for three mana he is not doing anything on the battlefield by himself, so he wants to come down early and just sit there converting your Food engine for the rest of the game.
Bag End Banquet
{6} · Artifact
Enters the battlefield and immediately creates three Food tokens, then taps for colorless mana equal to your current Food count. At six mana it is expensive to cast, but it arrives already generating three mana’s worth of Food, and every Food token anywhere on your board — from any source — adds to what it can tap for going forward.
The synergy with Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator is the whole point of pairing these two cards in the same panorama: with Bilbo already in play, Bag End Banquet’s entry creates three Food and three Treasure simultaneously, doubling its immediate value. Even without Bilbo, it is a real late-game mana sink for decks that already generate Food incidentally and want to convert that into a scaling rock.
Ori, Plate Stacker
{5}{W}{W} · Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard · 3/3
When Ori enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments your opponents control, and you gain 1 life for each permanent destroyed this way. Critically, this is one-sided — your own artifacts and enchantments are untouched, which is a real upgrade over symmetric sweepers like Vandalblast or Aura of Silence that ask you to rebuild alongside everyone else.
Seven mana is a steep price, but at a Commander table where opponents have spent several turns assembling Equipment suites, Signets, and enchantment-based value engines, one card wiping all of it while you keep your own board intact — and gaining meaningful life in the process against a wide multiplayer pod — is the kind of blowout that ends games on the spot. He is best held as a reactive answer rather than an automatic include in every list.
Is Crack the Plates Worth Buying?
For $44.99 you are getting three Play Boosters (real pack value on top of the sealed product) plus six cards that would otherwise only be available as scattered pulls across the full set. If you are building around Thorin, King of Durin’s Folk or Gandalf, Party Guest specifically, buying the box directly is cheaper and more reliable than chasing singles once the set is fully out and prices settle. Collectors chasing the full panorama display will want the box regardless of playability — assembling all six Art Cards on the included easel is the whole appeal.
If you only care about Dwarf tribal support, Fíli and Kíli, Joyous and Thorin, King of Durin’s Folk are the pieces likely to see the most consistent play; Ori, Plate Stacker is more of a sideboard-style answer that will not go in every list.
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The Bottom Line
Crack the Plates is the Food-and-Dwarves half of the Hobbit Scene Box pair, anchored by a genuinely interesting Jeskai Gandalf and a second, Treasure-focused Thorin Commander. It releases alongside the rest of The Hobbit starting the August 7 prerelease weekend, with the full set following on August 14, 2026.
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