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Gollum, Patient Plotter

Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror MV 2

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What it does

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.

Combos with Gollum, Patient Plotter

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Skirge Familiar Tormod, the Desecrator Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mind Over Matter Tormod, the Desecrator Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ratadrabik of Urborg Bartolomé del Presidio Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Kheru Goldkeeper Hardened Academic Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Bone Miser Skirge Familiar Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Bone Miser Mind Over Matter Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 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

    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

    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.

  • 2023-06-16

    Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.

  • 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

    Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.

  • 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.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Gollum, Patient Plotter, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Gollum, Riddle Master 1 0 —
Sauron, the Dark Lord 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 1 deck
  • Grixis 1 deck

Every version of Gollum, Patient Plotter

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Gollum, Patient Plotter. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.