There and Back Again
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Up to one target creature can't block for as long as you control this Saga. The Ring tempts you.
II — Search your library for a Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
III — Create Smaug, a legendary 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying, haste, and "When Smaug dies, create fourteen Treasure tokens."
Combos with There and Back Again
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Put all Mountains from your library onto the battlefield
- Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite copies of all tokens you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Orvar, the All-Form Imps' Taunt Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite copies of creatures you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Song of the Worldsoul Ancestral Statue Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite copies of tokens you control
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Orvar, the All-Form Anoint Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite copies of creatures you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Orvar, the All-Form Elvish Fury Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite copies of creatures you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Orvar, the All-Form Change of Heart Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite copies of creatures you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Orvar, the All-Form Whim of Volrath Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite copies of permanents you control
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
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
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
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
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
Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.
- 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
Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.
- 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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes There and Back Again, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadpool, Trading Card | 1 | 0 | — |
| Thorin, King of Durin's Folk | 1 | 0 | — |
| Tom Bombadil | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
Every version of There and Back Again
3 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Showcase
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Normal
- $31.61
- Foil
- $48.38
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Normal
- $11.47
- Foil
- $12.46
Promo
Tales of Middle-earth Promos
- Foil
- $16.10
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for There and Back Again — a name search across every version, for 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.