
Gollum, Patient Plotter
Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror
When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
"They'll take it, steal my Precious. Thieves. We hates them."
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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 34
All 34 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Call of the Ring
- Nasty End
- Sam's Desperate Rescue
- Claim the Precious
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Desecrated Tomb
- Nazgûl
- Haunt of the Dead Marshes
- Gríma Wormtongue
- Inherited Envelope
- Viscera Seer
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Deadly Dispute
- Barad-dûr
- Skullclamp
- Lash of the Balrog
- Corrupted Conviction
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Gollum, Silent Slinker
- Village Rites
- Gollum, Riddle Master
- Nether Traitor
- The Black Breath
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Bloodghast
- Witch-king of Angmar
- Gollum's Bite
- One Ring to Rule Them All
- Unearth
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Carrion Feeder
- Open the Graves
- Gollum the Abandoned
- Blood Artist
- Ringwraiths
- My Precious
- Uruk-hai Berserker
- Grim Haruspex
- Along the Crooked Way
- Tragic Slip
- Cult Conscript
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Skeleton Crew
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- The One Ring
- High Market
- Blight Mound
- Go for the Throat
- Bilbo's Deadly Slice
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Call of the Ring
- Nasty End
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Deadly Dispute
- Feed the Swarm
- Sam's Desperate Rescue
- Arcane Signet
- Blood Artist
- Village Rites
- Skullclamp
- Claim the Precious
- Viscera Seer
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Jet Medallion
- Dark Ritual
- Cabal Coffers
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Bojuka Bog
- Corrupted Conviction
- Victimize
- Desecrated Tomb
- Go for the Throat
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Bloodghast
- Tragic Slip
- Phyrexian Tower
- Carrion Feeder
- Bontu's Monument
- Nazgûl
- Morbid Opportunist
- Nether Traitor
- Haunt of the Dead Marshes
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Gríma Wormtongue
- Barad-dûr
- Unearth
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Accursed Marauder
- Toxic Deluge
- Inherited Envelope
- Ashnod's Altar
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Lash of the Balrog
- Grim Haruspex
- Reanimate
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-06-16
As the Ring tempts you, you get an emblem named The Ring if you don't have one. Then your emblem gains its next ability and you choose a creature you control to become (or remain) your Ring-bearer.
- 2023-06-16
Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.
- 2023-06-16
Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.
- 2023-06-16
If the creature you choose as your Ring-bearer was already your Ring-bearer, that still counts as choosing that creature as your Ring-bearer for the purpose of abilities that trigger "whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer" or abilities that care about which creature was chosen as your Ring-bearer.
- 2023-06-16
Some spells and abilities that cause the Ring to tempt you may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. The Ring won't tempt you.
- 2023-06-16
The Ring can tempt you even if you don't control a creature. In this case, abilities that trigger "whenever the Ring tempts you" will still trigger.
- 2023-06-16
The Ring gains its abilities in order from top to bottom. Once it gains an ability, it has that ability for the rest of the game.