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.
"Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent." —Elrond
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- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR #656)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2023-11-03
- Artist
- Ekaterina Burmak
- EDHREC rank
- #8,989
- 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
- The Ring Goes South
- Boromir, Warden of the Tower
- Meriadoc Brandybuck
- Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
- Peregrin Took
- Slip On the Ring
- Flowering of the White Tree
- Serah Farron
- Legolas Greenleaf
- Mirror of Galadriel
- Urza's Ruinous Blast
- The Grey Havens
- Rosie Cotton of South Lane
- The Shire
- War of the Last Alliance
- Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn
- Reki, the History of Kamigawa
- Arwen, Mortal Queen
- Great Hall of the Citadel
- Gandalf the White
- Inherited Envelope
- Barrow-Blade
- You Cannot Pass!
- Minas Tirith
- Revive the Shire
- Bill the Pony
- Bombadil's Song
- Many Partings
- Mithril Coat
- Infiltration Lens
- Relic of Legends
- Éowyn, Lady of Rohan
- Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
- Delighted Halfling
- Bilbo's Ring
- Sam, Loyal Attendant
- The Notary Hobbits
- Loran of the Third Path
- Shortcut to Mushrooms
- Saffi Eriksdotter
- Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- The Battle of Bywater
- Aragorn and Arwen, Wed
- Bofur, Reliable Guardian
- Reprieve
- Landroval, Horizon Witness
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Plains
- Forest
- Command Tower
- Aragorn, Company Leader
- Samwise the Stouthearted
- Sol Ring
- Boromir, Warden of the Tower
- Canopy Vista
- Faramir, Field Commander
- Swords to Plowshares
- Samwise Gamgee
- The Ring Goes South
- Arcane Signet
- Meriadoc Brandybuck
- Peregrin Took
- Sunpetal Grove
- Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
- Flowering of the White Tree
- Slip On the Ring
- Rosie Cotton of South Lane
- Path to Exile
- Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
- The Shire
- Minas Tirith
- Fortified Village
- Serah Farron
- Legolas Greenleaf
- Urza's Ruinous Blast
- The Grey Havens
- Mirror of Galadriel
- War of the Last Alliance
- Temple Garden
- Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn
- Brushland
- Delighted Halfling
- Arwen, Mortal Queen
- Reki, the History of Kamigawa
- Gandalf the White
- Cultivate
- Great Hall of the Citadel
- Revive the Shire
- Many Partings
- Mithril Coat
- You Cannot Pass!
- Barrow-Blade
- Inherited Envelope
- Overgrown Farmland
- Bill the Pony
- Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- Bombadil's Song
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.