First printed in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023)
All 5 prints
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #479, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #798, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #28, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #306, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #449, 2023
Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
Flash
When Samwise enters, choose up to one target permanent card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to your hand. Then the Ring tempts you.
"You've hurt my master, you brute, and you'll pay for it."
2/1
- Illustrated by
- Irvin Rodriguez
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (7)
- 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.
- 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.
- Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.
- 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.
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 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 | 57.0% | +1.4 | +3.8 | 40817 |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR), Sealed | 59.7% | +3.0 | +5.3 | 2210 |
- 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
32 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Bartolomé del Presidio + Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers…: Ratadrabik of Urborg + Relic of Legends + Samwise the Stouthearted
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted + Viscera Seer
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted + Yahenni, Undying Partisan
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers…: Phyrexian Altar + Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Altar of Dementia + Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers…: Carrion Feeder + Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Blasting Station + Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Ratadrabik of Urborg + Samwise the Stouthearted + Woe Strider
