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The Ring Goes South

The Ring Goes South Price

5 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2023

Cheapest $0.36
Median $0.92
Highest $2.84
EDHREC Rank #6,590

The Ring Goes South has been printed 5 times across 2 sets, first in 2023. Right now the cheapest printing is The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #186 at $0.36, while the most expensive is The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #637 at $2.84 — about 8× more. The median across 5 priced printings is $0.92. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 5x, including dedicated reprint sets like The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth.

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Every The Ring Goes South Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #186 (R) Cheapest 2023 $0.36 $0.04
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #366 (R) 2023 $0.59 $0.25
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #777 (R) Foil 2023 $0.92 —
Tales of Middle-earth Promos #186s (R) Foil 2023 $2.67 $0.23 foil
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #637 (R) 2023 $2.84 $3.00

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.

Oracle Text
Sorcery
The Ring tempts you. Then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legal In
Modern Legacy Vintage Commander Brawl Penny Dreadful

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 5 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

7 Precedents

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.

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.

Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.

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.

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.

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 player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.