Frodo, Sauron's Bane Price
6 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2023
Frodo, Sauron's Bane has been printed 6 times across 2 sets, first in 2023. Right now the cheapest printing is The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #18 at $0.26, while the most expensive is The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #796 at $12.20 — about 47× more. The median across 6 priced printings is $1.44. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 6x, including dedicated reprint sets like The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth.
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Every Frodo, Sauron's Bane Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #18 (R) Cheapest | 2023 | $0.26 | $0.08 foil |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #304 (R) | 2023 | $0.33 | $0.04 |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #448 (R) | 2023 | $0.37 | $0.30 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Promos #18s (R) Foil | 2023 | $2.50 | $2.50 foil |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #469 (R) | 2023 | $2.80 | $1.40 foil |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #796 (R) Foil | 2023 | $12.20 | $5.00 foil |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
: 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."Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 6 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
10 PrecedentsYou can activate Frodo, Sauron's Bane's abilities regardless of what creature types it is. Each of those abilities checks Frodo's creature types when that ability resolves. If Frodo, Sauron's Bane isn't the appropriate creature type at the time, that ability does nothing.
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.
Frodo, Sauron's Bane's first ability checks whether it's a Citizen, and its second ability checks whether it's a Scout. It doesn't matter how it became the appropriate creature type.
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 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.
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.
Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.
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.
None of these abilities have a duration. If one of them resolves, it will remain in effect until the game ends, Frodo, Sauron's Bane leaves the battlefield, or some subsequent effect changes its characteristics, whichever comes first.