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Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier MV 3

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What it does

Vigilance

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Combos with Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-06-16

    If a spell is cast with an alternative cost that includes mana (such as flashback), Boromir's second ability won't trigger and won't counter that spell. Similarly, if a spell is cast without paying its mana cost, but the player did pay mana for additional costs such as from kicker or from Thorn of Amethyst, Boromir's second ability won't trigger and won't counter that spell.

  • 2023-06-16

    If the creature you choose as your Ring-bearer was already your Ring-bearer, that still counts as choosing that creature as your Ring-bearer for the purpose of abilities that trigger "whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer" or abilities that care about which creature was chosen as your Ring-bearer.

  • 2023-06-16

    Players may cast spells that they know Boromir, Warden of the Tower will counter. Any abilities that trigger when spells are cast will still trigger and resolve if appropriate, and any effects that count how many spells are cast will still count those spells if appropriate.

  • 2023-06-16

    Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.

  • 2023-06-16

    The Ring gains its abilities in order from top to bottom. Once it gains an ability, it has that ability for the rest of the game.

  • 2023-06-16

    The Ring can tempt you even if you don't control a creature. In this case, abilities that trigger "whenever the Ring tempts you" will still trigger.

  • 2023-06-16

    Some spells and abilities that cause the Ring to tempt you may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. The Ring won't tempt you.

  • 2023-06-16

    Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.

  • 2023-06-16

    As the Ring tempts you, you get an emblem named The Ring if you don't have one. Then your emblem gains its next ability and you choose a creature you control to become (or remain) your Ring-bearer.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Boromir, Warden of the Tower, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 7
Games played 3
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Myrel, Shield of Argive 2 0 —
Samwise Gamgee 1 2 —
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1 —
Aragorn, the Uniter 1 0 —
General Ferrous Rokiric 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-White 2 decks
  • Abzan 1 deck
  • Selesnya 1 deck
  • Boros 1 deck
  • Four-Color (no Black) 1 deck

Every version of Boromir, Warden of the Tower

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

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Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.