Hero card

Gollum, Riddle Master

Legendary Creature - Halfling Horror

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Counter +1/+1

Gives: Counter +1/+1, Lifegain, Drain

In 1% of today's winning lists

Build a deck with Gollum, Riddle Master as the hero

Makes it work

Sunset Saboteur · Blood Hustler · Vadmir, New Blood · Lazav, Familiar Stranger · Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider · Vincent Valentine · Illvoi Operative · Massacre Girl, Most Wanted

Benefits from it

Gallia, Tragic Host · Undead Sprinter

Winning decks play them together

Corpses of the Lost · Desolation Prowler · Dissection Practice · Nighthowl Pursuer

Use instead if you don't have it

Blood Hustler · Melancholic Poet · Kalastria Highborn · Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar · Vengeful Bloodwitch · Scavenging Ooze

Winning decks that play it

Mono-Black Aggro (2)

Cards in the meta that answer it

Requiting Hex (Dimir Aggro) · Burst Lightning (Izzet Elemental) · Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control)