
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
- Haunt of the Dead Marshes
- Nazgûl
- Deadly Dispute
- Viscera Seer
- Skullclamp
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Inherited Envelope
- Corrupted Conviction
- Gríma Wormtongue
- Barad-dûr
- Village Rites
- Lash of the Balrog
- Nether Traitor
- Bloodghast
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Bastion of Remembrance
- The Black Breath
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Unearth
- Carrion Feeder
- Gollum's Bite
- Open the Graves
- Witch-king of Angmar
- One Ring to Rule Them All
- Grim Haruspex
- Blood Artist
- Ringwraiths
- My Precious
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Uruk-hai Berserker
- Cult Conscript
- Skeleton Crew
- Tragic Slip
- Gollum, Riddle Master
- High Market
- The One Ring
- Gollum, Silent Slinker
- Persistent Specimen
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Blight Mound
- Sauron, the Necromancer
- Costly Plunder
- Woe Strider
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Call of the Ring
- Nasty End
- Deadly Dispute
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Sam's Desperate Rescue
- Feed the Swarm
- Village Rites
- Skullclamp
- Arcane Signet
- Blood Artist
- Viscera Seer
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Claim the Precious
- Jet Medallion
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Dark Ritual
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Cabal Coffers
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Bojuka Bog
- Corrupted Conviction
- Desecrated Tomb
- Victimize
- Bloodghast
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Tragic Slip
- Phyrexian Tower
- Bontu's Monument
- Haunt of the Dead Marshes
- Go for the Throat
- Morbid Opportunist
- Carrion Feeder
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Nether Traitor
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Nazgûl
- Unearth
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Barad-dûr
- Ashnod's Altar
- Accursed Marauder
- Grim Haruspex
- Inherited Envelope
- Toxic Deluge
- Gríma Wormtongue
- Witch's Cottage
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Lash of the Balrog
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.