Claim the Precious
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. The Ring tempts you.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $1.12
- EDHREC rank
- #3816
Claim the Precious puts The One Ring directly into play from your library — no mana cost, no waiting — at the price of one life and a sacrificed creature. It's the fastest way to find The One Ring in black-green, and in any deck built around Frodo, Sauron's Bane, that speed is the entire point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Frodo, Sauron's Bane
Frodo, Sauron's Bane lives and dies by The One Ring's protection and card draw, and Claim the Precious is the most direct way to put that engine on the table — 83% of Frodo decks run it for exactly that reason.
Sméagol, Helpful Guide
Sméagol, Helpful Guide already ramps you into The One Ring territory, and Claim the Precious shortcircuits the curve entirely, letting Sméagol's sacrifice fodder do double duty as the cost.
Lord of the Nazgûl
Lord of the Nazgûl wants The One Ring for the burst protection it provides while you're assembling a Wraith army, and Claim the Precious finds it faster than any tutor at a comparable slot.
Sauron, the Dark Lord
Sauron, the Dark Lord appreciates The One Ring as a resilience piece in longer games, and Claim the Precious gives the deck a consistent line to it without relying on top-of-deck luck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Claim the Precious is a Commander card through and through — The One Ring is most oppressive in multiplayer, where the protection from everything and burst card draw generate a disproportionate advantage across several turns. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with faster, more flexible tutors and The One Ring itself sees little play in those formats' current metagames. Pauper legality is a technicality; The One Ring isn't Pauper-legal, so the card has no practical role there. Stick to Commander, where Claim the Precious earns its slot cleanly in any deck that wants The One Ring on the table by turn three.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.12 cheap tier
At $1.12, Claim the Precious is an easy include — you're paying bulk rare prices for a card that functionally tutors one of the most powerful artifacts in Commander directly into play. Demand is narrowly tied to The One Ring decks, so the price is unlikely to spike beyond its current floor, but it's not going anywhere either.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.