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Lotus Ring

Artifact — Equipment

Indestructible
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has vigilance and "{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add three mana of any one color."
Equip {3}

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Big Score
Price
$4.29
EDHREC rank
#11431
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Lotus Ring card art
Lotus Ring enters tapped and costs three mana to produce one mana of any color — that's a bad deal by any ramp standard. The one exception is recursive loops, particularly with Koll, the Forgemaster, where the Ring coming back from the graveyard repeatedly turns a negative into an engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Lotus Ring is a Commander card in the same way a fish is a land animal — technically legal elsewhere, functionally irrelevant. In Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Standard, three mana for one mana with an enters-tapped drawback doesn't compete at any level of the curve. Commander is where Lotus Ring finds its only real home, specifically in sacrifice and recursion shells that can loop it repeatedly rather than cast it once and move on.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.29 cheap tier

At $4.29, Lotus Ring sits at the high end of what its power level justifies — this is a narrow card with a small target audience. It holds that price on scarcity and combo demand rather than broad playability, so don't expect it to climb, but don't expect it to crater either.

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