Combat Research
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward 1. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2022-09-09
Because the card-draw ability is granted to the creature, if an opponent takes control of the enchanted creature and it deals combat damage while they control it, that opponent will draw a card.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Combat Research, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief | 1 | 1 | — |
| Karlach, Fury of Avernus | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Red 1 deck
- Simic 1 deck
Every version of Combat Research
2 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.

The List
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- Normal
- $0.79
- Foil
- $0.95
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Combat Research — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
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.