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 we read on this card

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 Gollum's colors 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. 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 — 11 cards in Gollum's colors 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. Call of the Ring — makes you lose life

a creature leaves a graveyard — 645 cards in Gollum's colors 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. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  4. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  5. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  6. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  7. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0
  8. Soul Enervation — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  9. Erebos's Titan — triggers

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 698 cards in Gollum's colors 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 — 699 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter:

  1. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  2. Plumb the Forbidden — copies a spell
  3. Zodiark, Umbral God — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist — makes a token
  5. Kingpin, Wilson Fisk — makes 2 tokens
  6. Mortician Beetle — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Lightless Evangel — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  8. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  9. Prowling Geistcatcher — exiles it

anything leaves a graveyard — 955 cards in Gollum's colors 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. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  4. Fang, Fearless l'Cie — draws you 1 card
  5. Teval's Judgment — triggers

a creature in a graveyard — 1,237 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

Gollum, Patient Plotter puts cards into the:

  1. Liliana the Repentant — graveyard that Liliana the Repentant can bring back
  2. Sword of Light and Shadow — graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  3. Necromantic Thirst — graveyard that Necromantic Thirst can bring back
  4. Ruthless Technomancer — graveyard that Ruthless Technomancer can bring back
  5. Forum Necroscribe — graveyard that Forum Necroscribe can bring back
  6. The Deck of Many Things — graveyard that The Deck of Many Things can bring back
  7. Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette — graveyard that Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette can bring back
  8. Sibsig Muckdraggers — graveyard that Sibsig Muckdraggers can bring back
  9. The Cauldron of Eternity — graveyard, and The Cauldron of Eternity gets bigger
  10. Zuko's Conviction — graveyard that Zuko's Conviction can bring back

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

a nontoken creature dies — 1,237 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter:

  1. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  2. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  3. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  4. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  5. Gate to the Afterlife — gains you 1 life
  6. Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner — makes a token
  7. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  8. Body Launderer — draws and discards
  9. Nightmare Shepherd — exiles it
  10. Homicide Investigator — triggers

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

a creature dies — 1,255 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

  1. Shriveling Rot — When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter, Shriveling Rot makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  2. Meathook Massacre II — When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter, Meathook Massacre II brings a card back
  3. Ashnod's Intervention — When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back
  4. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire — When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter, Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire brings a card back
  5. Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker — When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter, Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker brings a card back
  6. Treacherous Vampire — When Treacherous Vampire dies thanks to Gollum, Patient Plotter, it makes you lose life
  7. Treacherous Werewolf — When Treacherous Werewolf dies thanks to Gollum, Patient Plotter, it makes you lose life

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 1,418 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When you sacrifice a creature to Gollum, Patient Plotter, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

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

a card in a graveyard — 2,555 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

  1. Repentant Vampire — Gollum, Patient Plotter fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs

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

a creature attacks — 3,478 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

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

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

anything attacks — 3,478 cards in Gollum's colors can cause this (Gollum is one).

  1. Grim Javelineer — When Gollum, Patient Plotter attacks, Grim Javelineer gives +1/+0

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