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Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror · {1}{B} · Black commander
What Gollum, Obsessed Stalker actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.
- Keyword · skulkskulk
What a Gollum, Obsessed Stalker deck needs
Plays as lifegain. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- repeatable lifegain (opponents it has hit lose that much each end step)
- evasion for the commander (skulk — it must connect once)
The Gollum, Obsessed Stalker deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 32× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Zuran Orb0 mana
- Blood Artist2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Gollum, Obsessed Stalker is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Gollum, Obsessed Stalker + Volcano Hellion + Lich's Mirror + Oubliette2 decks
- Gollum, Obsessed Stalker + Volcano Hellion + Lich's Mirror + The Moment1 decks
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