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Jinxed Ring

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of this artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$3.44
EDHREC rank
#13768
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Jinxed Ring card art
Jinxed Ring forces its controller to lose 1 life at each upkeep until they sacrifice a creature to pass it — the catch being that passing it requires your opponent to accept it, which means it tends to stick. Stunning Reversal exists to turn certain death into a one-card miracle, but Iroh, Tea Master is where the Ring earns its keep: he converts the steady life loss into a reliable draw engine, flipping a punishing curse into consistent card advantage.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Iroh, Tea Master

Iroh, Tea Master

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.30

Iroh, Tea Master triggers whenever you lose life, so the per-upkeep drain from Jinxed Ring becomes a repeatable draw effect — every opponent who refuses to sacrifice a creature to pass it along is essentially donating you cards.

02
Zidane, Tantalus Thief

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

21.5% of decks · synergy 0.21

Zidane, Tantalus Thief rewards gifting things to opponents, and Jinxed Ring is one of the cleanest gifts in the format — you hand it over after triggering whatever benefit Zidane provides, then let the life loss pressure your opponent into sacrificing a creature to bounce it back.

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

Jinxed Ring is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it meaningfully sees play is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, the game ends too fast for a slow life-drain enchantment to matter, and the sacrifice-to-pass mechanic has no competitive support structure in those formats. Commander is the home: four opponents means the Ring can travel the table like a hot potato, and commanders like Iroh, Tea Master convert the passive drain into a genuine advantage rather than a soft tax. Oathbreaker is theoretically playable but the smaller player counts dilute the political chaos that makes Jinxed Ring interesting.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$3.44 cheap tier

At $3.44, Jinxed Ring sits at the low end of the cheap tier — fair for a narrow enchantment whose demand is almost entirely driven by Iroh, Tea Master decks. It's a stable niche card rather than a trajectory play; the price reflects a real ceiling on how broadly applicable it is.

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