Gollum, Patient Plotter

Bracket

• B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
• B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
• B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

• No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

34 known combos.

• Ratadrabik of Urborg + Gollum, Patient Plotter + Bartolomé del Presidio
  Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
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• Ratadrabik of Urborg + Gollum, Patient Plotter + Viscera Seer
  Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
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• Ratadrabik of Urborg + Gollum, Patient Plotter + Ashnod's Altar
  Produces: Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  View on Commander Spellbook

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
  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.
• 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
  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.
• 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
  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.
• 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
  Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.
• 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
  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.
• 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
  Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.
• 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
  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.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast