Replicating Ring
Snow Artifact
: Add one mana of any color.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with ": Add one mana of any color."
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander
- Price
- $1.46
- EDHREC rank
- #1480
Replicating Ring enters as a mana rock and, after eight upkeeps, converts itself into eight copies — a slow but self-contained army that demands an answer or runs away with the game. Commanders like Obeka, Splitter of Seconds can skip the wait entirely by ending the turn on their own terms, and Isu the Abominable turns every accumulated night counter into a snowball that hits harder every step.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Isu the Abominable
Isu the Abominable runs Replicating Ring because every upkeep trigger advances both the Ring's counter and Isu's own snowballing stat line — the two clocks sync perfectly, and by the time the Ring pops eight copies you're already threatening lethal with a massive commander.
Jorn, God of Winter
Jorn, God of Winter untaps all snow permanents on attack, which means Replicating Ring produces mana the turn after you swing — turning a slow value piece into an accelerant that also happens to be counting toward its eight-copy payoff.
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds can end the turn in response to the Ring's upkeep trigger after it accumulates counters, effectively telescoping the eight-upkeep clock into a fraction of the time and burying the table in artifact tokens.
Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy
Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy cares about artifacts entering and being sacrificed, so Replicating Ring dropping eight artifact tokens at once is exactly the kind of mass-entry event that floods the board and triggers Gimbal's scaling payoffs.
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles proliferate triggers, and Replicating Ring's night counter accumulation is a clean proliferate target — Tekuthal can cut the Ring's natural timeline in half, pushing the eight-copy payoff from a late-game plan to a mid-game threat.
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 by far the best home for Replicating Ring — the slower pace gives it room to accumulate all eight counters, and the multiplayer board state means eight artifact tokens can close a game or fuel an engine across three opponents. In Modern and Pioneer, eight upkeeps is a lifetime and the Ring sees essentially no competitive play; it simply can't keep pace with the turn-three kill clocks those formats demand. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — nothing is happening slowly enough for the Ring to matter. Oathbreaker is worth a mention if your planeswalker wants to proliferate or leverage artifact tokens, but Commander remains the clear and only serious format for this card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Obeka, Splitter of SecondsAggravated AssaultReplicating Ring
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Obeka, Splitter of SecondsTime SieveReplicating Ring
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$1.46 cheap tier
At $1.46, Replicating Ring sits squarely in budget-staple territory — cheap enough to slot into any artifact or snow deck without a second thought. It's a bulk rare that has settled at a stable floor, so don't expect the price to move meaningfully unless a new commander breaks the eight-counter mechanic wide open.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.