Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal

Gollum, Silent Slinker is a sneaky black creature that rewards you for playing small, efficient spells and managing your graveyard. The front half is a 4/3 menace creature with a modest stat line, but the real engine is Meager Meal, the adventure sorcery—it's a repeatable loot effect that draws a card and discards, triggering payoffs whenever you discard nonlands. This fits naturally into discard-matters strategies, sacrifice decks, and graveyard-focused shells where filling the bin is an asset, not a liability.

Your gameplan centers on casting Meager Meal early (and repeatedly via adventure recursion or blink effects) to fuel discard synergies: madness spells, flashback creatures, cards with cycling or transmute, and payoffs like Bone Gnawer or Waste Not. Gollum himself applies menace pressure while your spells do the heavy lifting. You're not looking for a single big threat; instead, you're grinding incremental value through card advantage, token generation from Recruit triggers, and filling your graveyard to enable reanimation or self-mill payoffs. The deck wins through a combination of token swarm (from Recruit), commander damage (Gollum swinging with menace), and graveyard synergies triggering to close games.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.