Fight Rigging
Enchantment
Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if you control a creature with power 7 or greater, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna Promos
- Price
- $0.74
- EDHREC rank
- #3697
Fight Rigging hits the table as a permanent that grows a creature every upkeep and draws a card the moment that creature is big enough — the engine starts immediately and compounds. The three-mana entry cost is low enough that Agatha of the Vile Cauldron decks happily jam it on curve, where the counters feed her ability and the card draw keeps the gas flowing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron rewards stacking +1/+1 counters on creatures with cost-reduction effects, and Fight Rigging delivers a counter every upkeep while paying for itself in cards once the threshold is crossed — it's one of the tightest fits in the format for her strategy.
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian cares about counters accumulating on creatures across turns, and Fight Rigging provides a reliable, recurring source that requires zero additional investment to keep running — it slots in as a background engine that accelerates his payoff conditions.
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied builds around proliferate and counter accumulation, making Fight Rigging's upkeep trigger a natural piece of the machine — every proliferate effect extends both the card-draw threshold and the size of whichever creature is wearing the counters.
Maarika, Brutal Gladiator
Maarika, Brutal Gladiator wants large, combat-relevant creatures, and Fight Rigging turns any threat into a growing problem while threatening a card draw that refills the hand mid-fight — the enchantment earns its slot by doing work before and after combat.
Halana and Alena, Partners
Halana and Alena, Partners already distribute power counters at end of combat, and Fight Rigging stacks additional counters on upkeep so the board scales faster than opponents can answer it — the card-draw rider is a bonus on top of what is already a strong counter-density synergy.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Fight Rigging does its best work — the singleton format's slower clock gives the enchantment time to accrue counters and eventually flip into card advantage, and the abundance of counter-synergy commanders makes the target easy to find. In Modern and Pioneer, three mana for a do-nothing-immediately enchantment is too slow against linear decks that close the game before the payoff triggers, so it sees essentially no competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage are even less hospitable — the power ceiling of those formats punishes incremental permanents that don't affect the board on resolution. Fight Rigging is correctly a Commander card, and within that format it belongs in decks that can guarantee the enchantment stays on a creature long enough to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.74 bulk tier
At $0.74, Fight Rigging sits firmly in bulk territory, which undersells how often it shows up in dedicated counter builds. It's an easy pickup at this price for any deck that wants it — there's no reason to wait.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
- Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
- Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
- Maarika, Brutal Gladiator
- Halana and Alena, Partners
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.