Gollum, Patient Plotter

Gollum, Patient Plotter

Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.

triggered —

Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

activated {B}, Sacrifice a creature —

activated {B}, Sacrifice a creature — brings a card back

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: the Ring tempts you, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, anything leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this.

  1. Foot Chopper — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Foot Chopper, it has the Ring tempt you
  2. Trading Post — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Trading Post, it has the Ring tempt you
  3. Fain, the Broker — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Fain, the Broker, it has the Ring tempt you
  4. Lazotep Quarry — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Lazotep Quarry, it has the Ring tempt you
  5. Basalt Golem — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Basalt Golem, it has the Ring tempt you
  6. Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter, it has the Ring tempt you
  7. Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist, it has the Ring tempt you
  8. Gríma Wormtongue — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Gríma Wormtongue, it has the Ring tempt you
  9. Flesh Carver — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Flesh Carver, it has the Ring tempt you
  10. Lord Skitter's Butcher — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Lord Skitter's Butcher, it has the Ring tempt you
  11. Shaun, Father of Synths — When Shaun, Father of Synths leaves the battlefield thanks to Gollum, Patient Plotter, it exiles a Synth you control
  12. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Gollum, Patient Plotter, it exiles a Nightmare

42 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

the Ring tempts you — 49 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

When Gollum, Patient Plotter has the Ring tempt you:

  1. Ringwraiths — returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Nazgûl — puts a counter on a Wraith
  3. Sauron, the Dark Lord — draws and discards
  4. Sméagol, Helpful Guide — puts a land onto the battlefield
  5. Call of the Ring — makes you lose life

a Horror deals combat damage — 382 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

  1. Captain N'ghathrod — When Gollum, Patient Plotter deals combat damage, Captain N'ghathrod mills a card

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

Gollum, Patient Plotter puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Krile Baldesion — can bring back
  10. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card

62 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Gollum, Patient Plotter fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

443 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Gollum is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Gollum, Patient Plotter attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

219 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.