---
name: "Along the Crooked Way"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Enchantment"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Amass"]
set: "HOB"
set_name: "The Hobbit"
collector_number: "295"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Bruce Brenneise"
oracle_id: "f4437cb3-85f7-49b5-bb41-6a948549d987"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/along-the-crooked-way-hob"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Along the Crooked Way
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Enchantment
- **Keywords:** Amass

## Oracle Text
When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature card leaves your graveyard, amass Goblins 1.
{1}{B}: Goblins and Orcs you control gain menace until end of turn.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Gathering of Darkness](/printing/gathering-of-darkness-hob.md) — Sorcery
2. [Goblin Dark-Dwellers](/printing/goblin-dark-dwellers-c20.md) — Creature — Goblin
3. [Boggart Birth Rite](/printing/boggart-birth-rite-lrw.md) — Kindred Sorcery — Goblin
4. [Boggart Shenanigans](/printing/boggart-shenanigans-plst.md) — Kindred Enchantment — Goblin
5. [Goblin Lackey](/printing/goblin-lackey-sld.md) — Creature — Goblin
6. [Warren Pilferers](/printing/warren-pilferers-mma.md) — Creature — Goblin Rogue

## Printing Details
- **Set:** The Hobbit (HOB) #295
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Bruce Brenneise
- **Total Printings:** 10 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`