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Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror · {1}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into their graveyard.

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What Sméagol, Helpful Guide 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, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into

What a Sméagol, Helpful Guide deck needs

Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• creatures dying each turn — sacrifice fodder (each such turn tempts you)
• Ring-tempts payoffs (each tempt steals a land from the top of an opponent's library)

The Sméagol, Helpful Guide deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 20× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
• 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 9× 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
• 10× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Sméagol, Helpful Guide

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.

Combos with Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sméagol, Helpful Guide is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Dúnedain Rangers + Viscera Seer3,774 decks
• Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Dúnedain Rangers + Bloodghast + Viscera Seer2,853 decks
• Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Dúnedain Rangers + Rampaging Baloths + Viscera Seer2,685 decks
• Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Dúnedain Rangers + Carrion Feeder2,390 decks
• Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Dúnedain Rangers + Ashnod's Altar2,289 decks
• Sméagol, Helpful Guide + Dúnedain Rangers + Bloodghast + Carrion Feeder1,999 decks

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