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Sméagol, Helpful Guide
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Commander

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Sméagol, Helpful Guide

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into their graveyard.

Creature
Sméagol, Helpful Guide (ltr) 330

Commander

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Landfall

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Avenger of Zendikar

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Creature
Avenger of Zendikar (otc) 187
Bloodghast

This creature can't block. This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Bloodghast (dft) 337
Dúnedain Rangers

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if you don't control a Ring-bearer, the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Dúnedain Rangers (ltr) 159
Rampaging Baloths

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Creature
Rampaging Baloths (blc) 233
Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (znr) 308
Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Tireless Provisioner (h2r) 15
Zendikar's Roil

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 2/2 green Elemental creature token.

Enchantment
Zendikar's Roil (j22) 747

Landfall

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Sac Outlet

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Cankerbloom (one) 294
Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (td0) A40
Gollum, Patient Plotter

When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you. {B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Gollum, Patient Plotter (ltr) 309
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 396
Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Thrashing Brontodon (lci) 329
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 332
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (dmr) 431

Sac Outlet

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Drain

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (blc) 179
Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (2x2) 352
Iridescent Vinelasher

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Iridescent Vinelasher (blb) 99
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 410
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (pw23) 5
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

Drain

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Protection

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Bombadil's Song

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. The Ring tempts you. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Bombadil's Song (ltr) 154
Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Champion's Helm (cmm) 654
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (sld) 1750
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (otp) 15
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (cmr) 702

Protection

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Theft

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Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 358
Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (cmm) 685
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 323
Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Rise of the Witch-king (ltr) 221

Theft

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Draw

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Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (m3c) 259
Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. −9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (fdn) 359
Lolth, Spider Queen

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth. 0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."

Planeswalker
Lolth, Spider Queen (afr) 112
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 380
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (sta) 35

Draw

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 653
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (j22) 644
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (itp) 19
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (znr) 307
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (dsc) 194
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 284
Spelunking

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life. Lands you control enter untapped.

Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213
Wose Pathfinder

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {6}{G}, {T}: Another target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Wose Pathfinder (ltr) 190

Ramp

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Tokens

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Awakening Zone

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Enchantment
Awakening Zone (ncc) 281
Compy Swarm

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, create a tapped token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Compy Swarm (rex) 9
Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Enchantment
Doubling Season (2xm) 350
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276

Tokens

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Land

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Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {B}. {X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Land
Barad-dûr (ltr) 253
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (brc) 176
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (rex) 26
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (pip) 495
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (ltr) 281
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (dsc) 287
Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress

Minas Morgul enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {3}{B}, {T}: Put a shadow counter on target creature. For as long as that creature has a shadow counter on it, it's a Wraith in addition to its other types. (A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Land
Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress (ltc) 514
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (unf) 284
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 355
Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ltr) 277
The Shire

The Shire enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {G}. {1}{G}, {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Create a Food token.

Land
The Shire (ltr) 260
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 480

Land

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Ring tempting

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Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 79
Claim the Precious

Destroy target creature. The Ring tempts you.

Sorcery
Claim the Precious (ltr) 81
Nazgûl

Deathtouch When this creature enters, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, put a +1/+1 counter on each Wraith you control. A deck can have up to nine cards named Nazgûl.

Creature
Nazgûl (ltr) 339
Sam's Desperate Rescue

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The Ring tempts you.

Sorcery
Sam's Desperate Rescue (ltr) 105
Shortcut to Mushrooms

When this enchantment enters, the Ring tempts you. At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Shortcut to Mushrooms (ltr) 187
The Black Breath

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Sorcery
The Black Breath (ltr) 78

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (puma) U8
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 430
Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant
Worldly Tutor (dmr) 442

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Sideboard

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Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Delighted Halfling

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

Creature
Delighted Halfling (ltr) 363
Enraged Huorn

Trample When this creature enters, the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Enraged Huorn (ltr) 162
Entish Restoration

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (rvr) 138
Fell

Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Fell (blb) 95
Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (blc) 223
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}. Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Lash of the Balrog (ltr) 408
Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. + {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lively Dirge (otj) 93
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
Mirrormere Guardian

When this creature dies, the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Mirrormere Guardian (ltr) 179
Mosswood Dreadknight

Creature
Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers (woe) 231
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 416
Naturalize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Naturalize (plst) M19-190
Old Man Willow

Old Man Willow's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. Whenever Old Man Willow attacks, you may sacrifice another creature or a token. When you do, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Old Man Willow (ltr) 217
One Ring to Rule Them All

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power. II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures. III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.

Enchantment
One Ring to Rule Them All (ltr) 102
Overrun

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Sorcery
Overrun (scd) 201
Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Persist (spg) 42
Revive the Shire

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
Revive the Shire (ltr) 185
Sauron, the Necromancer

Menace Whenever Sauron attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Wraith with menace. At the beginning of the next end step, exile that token unless Sauron is your Ring-bearer.

Creature
Sauron, the Necromancer (ltr) 106
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (sld) 1112
The Ring Goes South

The Ring tempts you. Then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
The Ring Goes South (ltr) 366
Uruk-hai Berserker

When this creature enters, the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Uruk-hai Berserker (ltr) 112
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (lcc) 213
Wear Down

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If the gift was promised, instead destroy two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

Sorcery
Wear Down (blb) 203
Witch-king of Angmar

Flying Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you. Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Witch-king of Angmar (ltr) 114
Woe Strider

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Woe Strider (blc) 189

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Maybeboard

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Mossborn Hydra

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Mossborn Hydra (fdn) 337
Ulvenwald Hydra

Reach Ulvenwald Hydra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When this creature enters, you may search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Ulvenwald Hydra (m3c) 250

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