First printed in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023)
Creature — Human Ranger
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if you don't control a Ring-bearer, the Ring tempts you.
"Aragorn has need of his kindred. Let the Dúnedain go to him in Rohan!"
4/4
- Illustrated by
- Eric Wilkerson
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (10)
- 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.
- 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.
- Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.
- A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
- Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).
- A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 30 Oct 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR), Premier Draft | 55.0% | -0.6 | +3.2 | 20417 |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR), Sealed | 56.6% | -0.1 | +3.0 | 1195 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
34 combos, the most popular first:
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite landfall triggers…: Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Viscera Seer (+ 1 other requirement)
- Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB…: Bloodghast + Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Viscera Seer
- Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB…: Dúnedain Rangers + Rampaging Baloths + Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Viscera Seer
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite landfall triggers…: Carrion Feeder + Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide (+ 1 other requirement)
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite landfall triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide (+ 1 other requirement)
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Near-infinite death triggers…: Bloodghast + Carrion Feeder + Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide
- Near-infinite colorless mana, Near-infinite death triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Bloodghast + Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Near-infinite death triggers…: Carrion Feeder + Dúnedain Rangers + Rampaging Baloths + Sméagol, Helpful Guide
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite landfall triggers…: Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Woe Strider (+ 1 other requirement)
- Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB…: Dúnedain Rangers + Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Viscera Seer + Zendikar's Roil