Ratadrabik, Smeagol, Boromir
Playing on PC. Ratadrabik's "except it isn't legendary" seems to not be working correctly. There is a post already about Brawl, but it seems that it is not isolated to that game type exclusively. Player Burbante used Ratadrabik of Urborg to bounce Boromir, Warden of the Tower off and back onto the field using Boromir's sacrifice ability, and Smeagol, Helpful Guide to mill me out and steal all my land cards. I was playing Historic (not ranked). They were able to do this in one turn. Which also means there is some bug/issue with Smeagol as Smeagol's ability is only supposed to activate at the beginning of the end step. Flow of events was: Had Ratadrabik and Smeagol on the board, played Boromir, sacrificed Boromir, Boromir bounced back, Smeagol activated, sacrifice Boromir, Boromir bounced back, Smeagol activated, sacrifice Boromir, Boromir bounced back, Smeagol activated... The way that should have happened, as far as I know, is that he sacrifices Boromir, Boromir bounces back and is not legendary. He could then sacrifice him a second time, but he would not bounce back as he is no longer a legendary creature. Smeagol activates 1 time at the end step, and the turn is over. As a note, the card on the board (thumbnail of Boromir) did not say legendary, but when you click to expand it said Legendary Token Creature. So that may be some clue as to the issue. I don't know why Smeagol activated the way that it did. Smeagol usually only activates once at the end step regardless of how many creatures died. Though that is possibly something to do with the order of operations of bouncing Boromir back within the end step. Though that also seems to be working counter to how it is supposed to.
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Rezzahan#77802
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The combo works, because choosing the Ringbearer when the Ring Tempts You, makes that Ringbearer LEGENDARY. Choosing the newly created nonlegendary Boromir token made with Ratadrabik thus makes it legendary again, and you get a loop.
As for Smeagol, the Ring Tempts You trigger is an end of turn trigger, the land stealing is not. That one happens right away. And with Boromir, the Ring Temps You right away. Thus a loop. The end of turn Tempting is irrelevant, it isn't part of the loop.