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Cellar Door

Artifact

{3}, {T}: Target player puts the bottom card of their library into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Jumpstart 2022
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#18969
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Cellar Door card art
Cellar Door converts your opponents' smallest creatures into 2/2 Zombie tokens on your end step — slow, repeatable, and free to activate once it's on board. The three-mana equip cost is real, but Grolnok, the Omnivore and similar frog-tribal or mill-value commanders find it pulls double duty as graveyard seeding and token generation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Cellar Door is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable end-step trigger compounds over a long game in ways that matter across four players, and mill-adjacent strategies have enough support in the format to make it a legitimate slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with engines so much faster that it never sees play. Modern is the same story: the card is too slow and too conditional to earn a spot in any competitive shell. Cellar Door is most at home in a 99-card singleton game where your opponents will reliably have small creatures in their libraries and you have the turns to grind.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Cellar Door is pure bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the slot fits. Bulk artifacts with narrow combo applications rarely appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a hold.

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