Tom, Bert, and William Turns Creature Death into Infinite Commander Value

Tom, Bert, and William is not the kind of legend Commander players can file away as “nice value.” At {3}{B}{G}, the 5/5 Legendary Creature - Troll comes packed with a sacrifice outlet that converts any other creature into cards equal to its power, then forces a discard. When it dies as a creature, it comes right back as an artifact, which immediately raises the ceiling from graveyard value to table-warping combo potential.

That matters because the card naturally rewards the exact lines black-green Commander decks already want: big bodies that are happy to be binned, utility creatures that can be replayed, and disposable tokens that turn into resources instead of going to waste. The discard clause keeps the engine moving, while the death trigger makes removal awkward. If the Troll is killed cleanly, it still leaves behind an artifact permanent that can be used again, and that resilience is what pushes it from cute build-around into something much more dangerous.

The cleanest path to abuse comes from pairing that artifact form with cards that care about artifacts becoming creatures again. Karn, Silver Golem is the obvious name here. Once Karn animates Tom, Bert, and William, sacrifice outlets like Ashnod’s Altar can start doing the heavy lifting. Karn, Silver Golem plus Ashnod’s Altar is already a verified infinite-mana core, and combo databases list the line as producing infinite colorless mana along with death triggers, leave-the-battlefield triggers, and sacrifice triggers. In a deck built to exploit the Troll’s recursion, that turns one commander into a looping engine rather than a simple draw spell.

The timing only sharpens the interest. Scryfall lists Tom, Bert, and William for release on August 14, 2026, the same date Wizards of the Coast has set for Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit worldwide. Wizards is backing the set with Play Boosters at $6.99, Collector Boosters at $37.99, prerelease events, Commander Party support, Standard Showdown, and Magic Spotlight events, a sign that this will be a major tabletop rollout rather than a novelty drop.

For Commander, the real question is not whether Tom, Bert, and William can grind value. It is whether the card is merely a powerful recursive engine or an early warning shot for a deck that can assemble infinite draw, infinite mana, and repeated death triggers with very little help. Right now, it looks like both.