Call of the Ring
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Promos #79s (rare)
At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
Call of the Ring has 5 printings, first in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023). EDHREC ranks it #1,429 among Commander cards. It appears most in Sauron, the Dark Lord decks (32,249 on EDHREC). It has 9 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Call of the Ring most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Sauron, the Dark Lord: 32,249 decks
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant: 14,554 decks
- Lord of the Nazgûl: 10,445 decks
- Sméagol, Helpful Guide: 7,228 decks
- Frodo, Sauron's Bane: 4,177 decks
- Obeka, Splitter of Seconds: 2,780 decks
- Ratadrabik of Urborg: 2,227 decks
- Saruman, the White Hand: 1,720 decks
Often played with Call of the Ring
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : If the Ring tempts you but you can't choose a creature as your Ring-bearer (probably because you control no creatures), Call of the Ring's last ability won't 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 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.
- : Call of the Ring's last ability will trigger any time you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, even if that creature was already your Ring-bearer.
- : Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.
- : 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.