Frodo Baggins
Legendary Creature — Halfling Scout
Whenever Frodo Baggins or another legendary creature you control enters, the Ring tempts you.
As long as Frodo Baggins is your Ring-bearer, it must be blocked if able.
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- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR #320)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Artist
- Dominik Mayer
- EDHREC rank
- #8,797
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
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
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Aragorn, Company Leader
- Samwise the Stouthearted
- Faramir, Field Commander
- Samwise Gamgee
- Boromir, Warden of the Tower
- The Ring Goes South
- Meriadoc Brandybuck
- Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
- Peregrin Took
- Slip On the Ring
- Legolas Greenleaf
- Serah Farron
- Flowering of the White Tree
- Urza's Ruinous Blast
- War of the Last Alliance
- Mirror of Galadriel
- The Grey Havens
- The Shire
- Rosie Cotton of South Lane
- Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn
- Gandalf the White
- Reki, the History of Kamigawa
- Arwen, Mortal Queen
- Great Hall of the Citadel
- Revive the Shire
- You Cannot Pass!
- Bill the Pony
- Minas Tirith
- Inherited Envelope
- Barrow-Blade
- Bombadil's Song
- Many Partings
- Infiltration Lens
- Mithril Coat
- Relic of Legends
- Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
- Éowyn, Lady of Rohan
- Delighted Halfling
- Bilbo's Ring
- Sam, Loyal Attendant
- The Battle of Bywater
- Loran of the Third Path
- Shortcut to Mushrooms
- Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- Saffi Eriksdotter
- Landroval, Horizon Witness
- Reprieve
- Aragorn and Arwen, Wed
- The Notary Hobbits
- Kolvori, God of Kinship
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Forest
- Plains
- Command Tower
- Aragorn, Company Leader
- Samwise the Stouthearted
- Sol Ring
- Boromir, Warden of the Tower
- Canopy Vista
- Swords to Plowshares
- Samwise Gamgee
- Faramir, Field Commander
- The Ring Goes South
- Arcane Signet
- Peregrin Took
- Meriadoc Brandybuck
- Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
- Sunpetal Grove
- Flowering of the White Tree
- Slip On the Ring
- Path to Exile
- Rosie Cotton of South Lane
- Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
- The Shire
- Minas Tirith
- Fortified Village
- Legolas Greenleaf
- Serah Farron
- Urza's Ruinous Blast
- War of the Last Alliance
- The Grey Havens
- Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn
- Mirror of Galadriel
- Delighted Halfling
- Cultivate
- Temple Garden
- Gandalf the White
- Brushland
- Arwen, Mortal Queen
- Reki, the History of Kamigawa
- Revive the Shire
- Great Hall of the Citadel
- Bill the Pony
- Many Partings
- You Cannot Pass!
- Inherited Envelope
- Mithril Coat
- Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- Bombadil's Song
- Barrow-Blade
- Relic of Legends
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 Frodo Baggins is your Ring-bearer but each creature the defending player controls can't block for any reason (such as by having greater power than Frodo along with the first ability of the Ring emblem), then Frodo Baggins isn't blocked. If there's a cost associated with blocking Frodo Baggins, the defending player isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to be blocked in that case either.
- 2023-06-16
If Frodo Baggins is your Ring-bearer, only one creature is required to block it. Other creatures may also block it and are free to block other creatures or not block at all.
- 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.