With no preexisting method of assessing battles and their role in Magic decks, the weeks ahead will see an exciting race to discover the most powerful battles with good old-fashioned trial and error by deck designers and competitors alike
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
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
I could certainly see this Ariel being used in these sorts of decks
You can target yourself as the player to gain 5 life
Once your end step begins, it's too late to make a card leave your graveyard in order to cause this ability to trigger