Jandor's Ring
Artifact
, 
, Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foreign Black Border
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28918
Jandor's Ring lets you look at the top card of your library and swap it with the card in your hand whenever you want — but it costs four mana to cast and two mana each time you activate it, which is an enormous tax for an effect that doesn't actually draw you a card. Skip it; there are dozens of cheaper, cleaner card-selection pieces in every blue or colorless shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Jandor's Ring is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, the four-mana entry cost plus a two-mana activation to exchange — not draw — a single card is far too slow and inefficient when the format is full of one- and two-mana cantrips and repeatable draw engines. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to look at it either; those formats demand card advantage that actually advances the board state, and Jandor's Ring does not. It exists as a curiosity from an early era of the game, not as a functional piece of any competitive or tuned list.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Jandor's Ring isn't available in this context, but as an obscure artifact with no competitive application, copies surface regularly in bulk bins and old-collection lots. It's a collector's item or a nostalgia pick, not a card you buy for gameplay.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.