MTG — The Ring Tempts You Tracker (Barad-dûr Plaque)

A two-piece tracker for The Ring tempts you, the keyword from Magic: the Gathering — Tales of Middle-earth (LotR).

When a card says "The Ring tempts you", your Ring grows in power through 4 escalating levels (cumulative):

• I — Legendary: Your Ring-bearer is legendary, and creatures with greater power than it can't block it.

• II — Drain 1: Whenever your Ring-bearer attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

• III — Kill blocker: Whenever your Ring-bearer becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat.

• IV — Discard: Whenever your Ring-bearer deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

The plaque is a Barad-dûr (Dark Tower of Sauron) silhouette with 4 circular pockets running up the tower body and the level numeral + ability summary inset beside each in a second filament colour. As your Ring grows in power, move the small One-Ring marker UP the tower toward the apex.

What you print

The body+labels are a coordinate-locked two-colour print:

• ring_tempts_combined.stl — ASCII multi-solid (body + labels) for Bambu Studio's Split to Parts workflow. Recommended.

• ring_tempts_body.stl — filament A (dark tower body) — single- colour fallback if you don't have AMS.

• ring_tempts_labels.stl — filament B (gold ability/title plugs) — drop into the body's recesses if printing the parts separately.

• ring_tempts_marker.stl — the One Ring marker (~7.5 mm Ø, 1.4 mm thick), separate part.

Bambu AMS workflow (recommended)

1. Import ring_tempts_combined.stl into Bambu Studio.

2. Right-click the imported object → Split to Parts.

3. Two sub-parts named body and labels appear, locked at exact coordinates.

4. Assign filament A (dark / structural) to body — black, anthracite, or dark grey for Barad-dûr.

5. Assign filament B (gold / accent) to labels — gold, brass, or copper.

6. Slice. Print flat on the bed, no supports.

Why combined STL with named solids? Bambu's "Add Part" workflow rearranges coordinates — the labels would land off-centre from the body. A single ASCII STL with two named solids + Split-to- Parts preserves the exact alignment.

Single-colour fallback

If you don't have AMS, print only ring_tempts_body.stl and accept a monochrome plaque — the engravings are recessed 0.6 mm and remain legible. Or pause-and-swap filament at the layer where the labels start to get a manual two-colour finish.

Print settings

• Bambu Lab P2S or any 0.4 mm FDM

• 0.2 mm layer height, 3 walls, 15 % infill

• PLA Basic

• No supports

• Plaque: print front face UP on the bed (engravings recessed at top; cleanest engraving floors)

• Marker: flat (it's symmetric — either face down works)

Source

Full parametric .scad is included. Variables at the top of the file control print height, pocket layout, ability text per level, title position, and fonts. Want a different silhouette (e.g. Minas Tirith, Helm's Deep, Mount Doom)? Drop a new 1024-pt silhouette SVG in the folder, replace tower.svg, and re-export.

The Barad-dûr silhouette is an AI-generated image traced to a vector outline. The prompt behind it was:

Barad-dur dark tower of Sauron, jagged spires, Eye of Sauron at top, simple bold black silhouette on white background, no detail

Fan content for Magic: the Gathering by Wizards of the Coast and The Lord of the Rings by the Tolkien Estate — not affiliated with either.