Gollum, Patient Plotter (LTR)

Gollum, Patient Plotter
Casting Cost: {1} {b}
Card type: Legendary Creature - Halfling Horror
Power/Toughness: 3/1
Card Text:
When Gollum, Patient Plotter Leaves The Battlefield, The Ring Tempts You.
B, Sacrifice A Creature: Return Gollum from Your Grayyard to Your Hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Flavour text:
"They'll take it, steal my precious. Thieves. We Hates Them."
Artist: Lorenzo Mastroianni

Card Strengths and Weaknesses:

• Power/Cost Ratio: With 3 power for just {1} {b}, Gollum is aggressively costed, making him a potent early-game threat.

• Recursion: The ability to return gollum to your hand by sacrifying a creature sacrifices a good level of recurrence, particularly in a sacrifice-oriented deck.

• Weakness: The 3/1 Stat Line is Fragile, Making Gollum Susceptible to Various Forms of Removal, Including Cheap Damage-Based Spells or Combat with Any Creature That Has At Least 1 Power.

• Ring Tempts you: The "Ring Tempts you" trigger can be either a strength or weakness, depending on the rest of the deck and the game state.

Deck Utility:

• Aggro decks: The Low Mana Cost and High Power Make It A Fit For Aggressive Decks.

• Sacrifice Strategies: The ability to return gollum to your hand synergizes well with decks that have a sacrifice theme.

• GRAVEYARD Interactions: Could be part of a larger graveyard-centric strategy where his recurrence can be exploited further.

• Middle-Earth Thematic Decks: For fans of the theme, this card fits well into a middle-earth or lord of the rings-based deck.

Overall, Gollum, Patient Plotter Is an interesting card that sacrifices aggressive early-game potential along with mid-to-late-game staying power, courtesy of its recursion ability. The ability to return to your hand by sacrifying another creature gives it a role in a variety of decks, particularly those that revolve around sacrifice mechanics.