When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
Gollum is a mono-black aristocrats/recursion engine commander that thrives on dying and coming back. Every time he leaves the battlefield the Ring tempts you, building Ring-bearer value, and his graveyard-to-hand ability means you can keep recasting him cheaply via sacrifice. Turn to turn you sacrifice creatures for value, advance the Ring, and grind opponents out with attrition before closing with a sacrifice-based combo or a big finisher.
Extremely resilient commander that dodges most removal by returning from the graveyard for plus a creature.
Repeatedly tempts you with the Ring, stacking up evasion, card draw, and sacrifice triggers.
Slots perfectly into aristocrats shells where sacrificing creatures is already the gameplan.
Mono-black gives access to the format's best tutors, removal, and reanimation.
Low impact on the board by himself—he's an engine piece, not a threat.
Mono-color means no access to blue interaction or other colors' answers.
Relies on having creatures and sacrifice outlets to fully exploit his abilities.
Graveyard hate and exile-based removal shut down his recursion.
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