Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
This spell costs less to cast if it targets a tapped creature.
Exile target creature.
Wormtongue bared his teeth; and then with a hissing breath he spat before the king's feet.
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
The Tooks marched in with Pippin at their head. Merry now had enough sturdy Hobbitry to deal with the ruffians.
When Bill the Pony enters, create two Food tokens. (They're artifacts with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Sacrifice a Food: Until end of turn, target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Vigilance
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.
"Farewell, Aragorn! Go to Minas Tirith and save my people!"
This enchantment enters with a hope counter on it for each creature you control.
At the beginning of your end step, remove a hope counter from this enchantment. If you do, draw a card. Then if this enchantment has no hope counters on it, sacrifice it and you gain 4 life.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip Human
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
The sword glinted in the westering sun.
Flying
When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.
Plainscycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
When this creature enters, create a Food token. When you do, target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Food you control. (A Food token is an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Vigilance
Whenever this creature deals damage to a Goblin or Orc, destroy that creature.
"The Rohirrim have long been the friends of the people of Gondor, though they are not akin to them."
—Aragorn
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature gains your choice of first strike or vigilance until end of turn. If that creature is equipped, it gains first strike and vigilance until end of turn instead.
Equip abilities you activate cost less to activate.
When this creature enters, draw a card. Then if you don't control a legendary creature, put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.
"Gondor is in great need. Lord Denethor asks for all your strength and all your speed, lest Gondor fall at last."
Target creature gets +1/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.
"How far can you bear me?" asked Gandalf.
"Many leagues," said Gwaihir, "but not to the ends of the earth. I was sent to bear tidings, not burdens."
, : Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. This ability costs less to activate if you control a legendary creature.
"Where now the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk,
and the bright hair flowing?"
—Lament for the Rohirrim
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, draw a card.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Faramir as your Ring-bearer, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
"A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality."
Legendary creatures you control get +2/+1 and have ward .
Nonlegendary creatures you control get +1/+1.
Aragorn planted the new tree in the court by the fountain, and swiftly and gladly it began to grow.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is a Spirit and can't attack or block. (It loses all other creature types.)
"Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on stony bed,
never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead."
When this enchantment enters, return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
During your turn, you may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant.
You may pay rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate during each of your turns.
: If Frodo is a Citizen, it becomes a Halfling Scout with base power and toughness 2/3 and lifelink.
: If Frodo is a Scout, it becomes a Halfling Rogue with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game if the Ring has tempted you four or more times this game. Otherwise, the Ring tempts you."
Flash
You may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Hobbit's Sting deals X damage to target creature, where X is the number of creatures you control plus the number of Foods you control.
"One for the Shire!" cried Aragorn. "The Hobbit's bite is deep! You have a good blade, Frodo son of Drogo!"
Flying
Whenever two or more creatures you control attack a player, target attacking creature without flying gains flying until end of turn.
He passed over Udûn and Gorgoroth and saw all the land in ruin and tumult beneath him, and before him Mount Doom blazing, pouring out its fire.
Put target nonland historic permanent into its owner's library fourth from the top. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
"In the days of Isildur, the Ruling Ring passed out of all knowledge."
—Elrond
Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice a Food or pay . When you do, tap target creature an opponent controls.
The ruffian knew too little of Hobbits to understand his peril. Foolishly, he decided to fight.
Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. They gain vigilance until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.
The Captains of the West came at last to challenge the Black Gate and the might of Mordor.
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Orcs were digging deep trenches in a huge ring, just out of bowshot of the walls, while the Men of Minas Tirith looked on, unable to hinder them.
Return target spell to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
As Faramir and Éowyn stood so, their hands met and clasped, though they did not know it.
When Rosie Cotton enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you create a token, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control other than Rosie Cotton.
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."
Up to two target creatures each get +2/+1 until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
The Hobbits of the Shire were fond of six meals a day—when they could get them.
Vigilance
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a token. When you do, exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.
"You're arrested for Gate-breaking, and Tearing up of Rules, and Trespassing, and Bribing Guards with Food."
Exile target creature you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control. The Ring tempts you.
How had it come to be on his finger? He wondered if the Ring itself had not played him a trick.
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
"The Dead awaken; for the hour is come for the oathbreakers."
—Malbeth the Seer
When this creature enters, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
"The Enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the River."
—Denethor
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target creature you control gains indestructible for as long as you control this Saga.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
III — Up to two target creatures you control each gain lifelink until end of turn.
When this creature dies, the Ring tempts you.
The Tooks came, a hundred strong, from Tuckborough and the Green Hills.
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
III — Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.
Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Activate only as a sorcery.
"The Orcs were greater in number than we counted on. Great Orcs, who also bore the White Hand of Isengard."
—Éomer
Destroy target creature that blocked or was blocked by a legendary creature this turn.
It raised the whip, and the thongs whined and cracked. Fire came from its nostrils. But Gandalf stood firm.
This spell costs less to cast if you control two or more legendary creatures.
Scry 2, then draw two cards.
"Wear this now in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar with whom your life has been woven!"
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Draw two cards, then discard a card.
III — Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library. Add .
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has "If this creature would untap during your untap step, remove a +1/+1 counter from it instead. If you do, untap it." (Otherwise, it doesn't untap.)
Whenever Bill Ferny becomes blocked, choose one —
• Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
• Target opponent gains control of target Horse you control. If they do, remove Bill Ferny from combat and create three Treasure tokens.
Draw a card. The Ring tempts you.
As Bilbo finished his speech, he slipped the ring on his finger, and he was never seen by any Hobbit in Hobbiton again.
You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Draw a card.
"I looked on Aragorn and thought how great and terrible a Lord he might have become, had he taken the Ring for himself. Not for naught does Mordor fear him."
—Legolas
, : Draw a card, then discard a card.
"There is a great fleet drawing near to the mouths of Anduin, manned by the Corsairs of Umbar in the South. They have long ceased to fear the might of Gondor."
—Beregond
Draw a card.
Whenever you scry, if you control an Island, you may exile this card from your graveyard. If you do, draw a card.
"I will take the Ring to Mordor, though I do not know the way."
—Frodo
Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
"Tell Gandalf that he must seek my aid at once."
—Saruman
Target creature has base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.
"I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! All shall love me and despair!"
Whenever Elrond or another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, the Ring tempts you.
"This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. Who of all the Wise could have foreseen it?"
Flash
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.
"After a hundred years, Hobbits can still surprise you at a pinch."
Counter target creature spell. If it was a legendary spell, the Ring tempts you.
The Elves of Lórien took Dol Guldur. Galadriel threw down its walls and laid bare its pits, and the forest was cleansed.
: Move a counter of each kind not on Goldberry from another target permanent you control onto Goldberry.
, : Move one or more counters from Goldberry onto another target permanent you control. If you do, draw a card.
"Fear nothing! For tonight you are under the roof of Tom Bombadil."
Flash
When this creature enters, scry 1.
It was an old tradition that beyond the Shire stood the Grey Havens, from which at times elven-ships set sail, never to return.
Tap target creature. Scry 1.
Draw a card.
"If you will try to run away you must be tied; but we don't wish to hurt you."
—Sam
Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands. Scry 1. The Ring tempts you.
The black horses were filled with madness, and leaping forward in terror they bore their riders into the rushing flood.
: Untap another target permanent.
: Untap two other target legendary creatures.
"I have been too busy with this and that to heed all the crying and shouting. All I hope is that those murdering devils do not come to this House and trouble the sick."
Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.
"They took me and set me on the pinnacle of Orthanc. I stood alone on an island in the clouds; I had no chance of escape, and my days were bitter and cold."
—Gandalf
Flying
When this creature dies, draw a card.
After their reunion, the Hobbits spent many days in Ithilien. The stream that flowed from the falls of Henneth Annûn could be heard in the night as it rushed down through its rocky gate.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
And so the companies came and were hailed and cheered and passed through the Gate.