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Boxing Ring

Artifact

Whenever a creature you control enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control with the same mana value.
{T}: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if you control a creature that fought this turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
New Capenna Commander
Price
$0.46
EDHREC rank
#9457
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Boxing Ring card art
Boxing Ring puts a +1/+1 counter on your biggest creature every time it fights or becomes blocked, and taps to force your opponents' creatures to fight yours on demand — that's a repeatable pump-and-removal engine on a single artifact. The cost is four mana to land plus one more to activate, which is slow enough that it earns its slot only in decks that want fights as a core mechanic. Neyith of the Dire Hunt draws cards off every fight trigger; Clock of Omens untaps Boxing Ring for free, turning one activation per turn into a board wipe in the making.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Neyith of the Dire Hunt

Neyith of the Dire Hunt

42.6% of decks · synergy 0.42

Neyith of the Dire Hunt draws a card whenever one of your creatures fights or becomes blocked, so every Boxing Ring activation replaces itself — the engine is self-sustaining from the moment both pieces are in play.

02
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

28.9% of decks · synergy 0.28

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy has a built-in fight ability of her own, and Boxing Ring's forced-fight activation effectively doubles her throughput, letting you pick off utility creatures while counters stack on your biggest threat.

03
Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

22.9% of decks · synergy 0.22

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator gets a trample counter every time a creature she fights is dealt damage, so Boxing Ring's repeated activations feed her engine continuously while also growing whatever creature you designate as the ring's champion.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Boxing Ring is a Commander card through and through — four mana, no immediate board impact, and a payoff that compounds over multiple turns is exactly the profile that works in a 40-life multiplayer game and looks embarrassing in a 20-life duel. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, nothing about the card is close to playable; the format is full of one-mana interaction and win conditions that end the game before Boxing Ring's first activation matters. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where it could see fringe play, but only under a planeswalker commander whose game plan leans heavily on creature combat. The real home is Commander, and specifically creature-heavy Gruul or Naya fight decks where the activation is a repeatable removal spell that also grows your own board.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Boxing RingClock of OmensAcademy Manufactor

Boxing RingClock of OmensAcademy Manufactor

Infinite card draw; Infinite Clue tokens; Infinite colored mana; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite untap of artifacts you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.46 bulk tier

At $0.46, Boxing Ring is deep bulk — easy to pick up in a trade binder or throw in a cheap order without thinking about it. Demand is concentrated in a narrow slice of fight-themed Commander decks, so the price is unlikely to climb unless a marquee fight commander breaks out.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.