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This two-card combo makes for a fantastic draw engine in Legacy, which a Control deck needs to answer all the big threats of that format

But his other skills, such as life gain and card draw engines, are just as useful

As I mentioned before, it takes a while for us to actually mill all of our opponent's cardswe usually win somewhere around Turn 8but considering that both Engulf the Shore and Crush of Tentacles are often double Fogs (buying us at least one turn of not taking damage and sometimes one-and-a-half or even two turns), it's not that hard to make the game go long

II Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield

Gaining life with Bilbo lets you gain one extra point of life, which is vital for using his main ability

And in a deck like Shorikai, Genesis Engine, which already is playing as many artifact untappers as you can squeeze in, this is an absolute yes