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Slip On the Ring

Instant

Exile target creature you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control. The Ring tempts you.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$0.55
EDHREC rank
#4927
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Slip On the Ring card art
Slip On the Ring gives a creature you control the One Ring's protection and evasion until end of turn at instant speed for a single mana — an absurdly efficient rate for what it delivers. It's the engine piece Frodo, Sauron's Bane needs to trigger his poison and life-loss abilities, and it pulls double duty as a combat trick that makes blockers irrelevant for Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward strategies looking to connect.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Frodo, Sauron's Bane

Frodo, Sauron's Bane

84.3% of decks · synergy 0.82

Frodo, Sauron's Bane demands that he deal combat damage to a player while wearing the One Ring, and Slip On the Ring is the cheapest, most reliable way to meet that condition on command — 84% of Frodo decks run it for exactly that reason.

02
Zidane, Tantalus Thief

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

37.9% of decks · synergy 0.37

Zidane, Tantalus Thief wants to connect with opponents repeatedly, and Slip On the Ring turns any blocked attack into an unblockable one for a single blue mana, enabling the theft triggers that make the deck function.

03
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's WardCandlekeep Sage

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage

31.0% of decks · synergy 0.29

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward wants to blink his own permanents for value, and Slip On the Ring protects him at instant speed while simultaneously threatening an unblockable commander-damage kill if opponents tap out.

05
Gandalf the White

Gandalf the White

19.3% of decks · synergy 0.17

Gandalf the White flashes in permanents at instant speed and benefits from any combat damage trigger, making Slip On the Ring a natural fit to guarantee his attacks land while protecting a board investment from combat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Slip On the Ring is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — broad access, but Commander is where it earns its keep. In 60-card formats it competes with a deep pool of similar one-mana combat tricks, and the One Ring flavor text does more work than the mechanical upside in that context. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it's worth a second look, since evasion at common rarity and instant speed is genuinely scarce. Everywhere else, Slip On the Ring is a Commander card wearing other format legality as a costume.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,422 decks
Preston, the VanisherFelidar GuardianSlip On the Ring

Preston, the VanisherFelidar GuardianSlip On the Ring

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite blinking of permanents; Infinite mana lands you control that enter the battlefield untapped can produce; Exile all nonland permanents opponents control; Infinite mana lands you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$0.55 bulk tier

At $0.55, Slip On the Ring is bulk — cheap enough to include in any Frodo or Ring-temptation deck without a second thought. Bulk rares tied to a specific mechanic rarely climb unless that mechanic gets a new pushed commander, so treat this as a low-cost functional piece, not a hold.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.