Boom Box
Artifact
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy up to one target artifact, up to one target creature, and up to one target land.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #16340
Boom Box hits the board and immediately starts grinding out card advantage through its activated ability, which rewards you for committing to a beatdown or tempo game plan. The cost is real — you need to actually be attacking to fuel it — but the payoff is worth building around.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Boom Box slots into aggressive or go-wide strategies that already want to be attacking every turn, where the incremental value compounds across a long game. It's legal in every major constructed format — Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but in those 60-card formats the competition for three-mana artifacts is brutal and Boom Box doesn't do enough on its own to demand a slot. Commander is the clear home: 100-card singleton dilutes the competition, and multiplayer games give you enough turns to extract real value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Boom Box is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap online purchase. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a new commander or combo pushes demand, so don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.