Billiard Room
Land
This land enters tapped.
: Add 
or 
.
, : Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #13821
Billiard Room makes every creature your opponents control a potential liability — the moment one dies, they lose life equal to its power. The cost is running a slow enchantment that does nothing until something dies, but in any creature-heavy meta, that trigger fires constantly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Billiard Room earns its slot: 100-card games feature dense board states, sweepers, and combat, which means creature deaths pile up fast and the cumulative life loss adds up without you lifting a finger. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but those formats move too fast and too wide for a passive enchantment at three mana to matter — nobody is goldfishing life totals down with incremental triggers when the game ends on turn two. Oathbreaker is the same story as Commander in miniature: worth considering in go-wide or aristocrats shells where the triggers are frequent enough to close out a game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Billiard Room sits firmly in bulk territory — you're not paying a premium for the effect. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless they find a breakout commander home, so treat it as a cheap pickup for the deck, not a spec.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.