The Ring Goes South MTG Lord of the Rings LTR 186 Land Ramp Sorcery

The Ring Goes South

Sorcery from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth.

Quantity: 1 card • Regular finish • LTR #186

The Ring tempts you, then you reveal cards until you find a land for each legendary creature you control, putting those lands onto the battlefield tapped and the remaining revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Supports Land Ramp strategies by turning a battlefield of legendary creatures into additional mana sources.

Card Highlights

• Casting cost: three generic and one green mana
• The Ring tempts you before your legendary creatures are counted
• Can put both basic and nonbasic lands onto the battlefield
• The revealed lands enter tapped
• Revealed nonland cards go to the bottom rather than the graveyard
• Rare standard-frame printing illustrated by Wangjie Li

Vault Notes & Play Impact

Choosing a nonlegendary creature as your Ring-bearer makes it legendary, potentially increasing the number of lands this spell finds. Building up several legendary creatures before casting can produce a larger ramp payoff. If you control no creatures when it resolves, the Ring still tempts you, but you will not reveal cards or put lands onto the battlefield.