While these cards are powerful and fun, given the, erm, rather central and unique nature of the actual one ring in the novels, this feels like thematic oversight on a scale even more epic than Tolkiens work
Casualty, The Cost Of Doing Business Casualty is the kind of mechanic that perfectly captures why Magic design continues to work even after three decades
If you want to use this to repeatedly recast Lion's Eye Diamond, you'll still need a way to mitigate the five life you pay for each loop, and you'll need a win condition
This is known as tapping a permanent, usually indicating the cards usefulness for the turn has ended
Hope of Ghirapur Hope of Ghirapur is one of those cards that seems to be a good role-player, but it never really found a home
What's your position on the infect vs toxic debate