Cramped Vents // Access Maze
Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, this Room deals 6 damage to target creature an opponent controls. You gain life equal to the excess damage dealt this way.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
- CMC
- 11
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #7082
Cramped Vents // Access Maze enters the battlefield tapped and produces two colors — a real cost — but the back half is what commanders like Aminatou, Veil Piercer are actually buying: a land that can be blinked back into play to reset the enters-tapped penalty and reuse any ETB trigger stapled to it. It's a role-player, not a staple, and if your commander doesn't care about blinking permanents, skip it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Aminatou, Veil Piercer's ability to exile and return permanents means Cramped Vents // Access Maze can be reset repeatedly, turning a single dual land into an engine piece that fuels artifact and enchantment payoffs every time it touches the battlefield.
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal cares about artifacts entering the battlefield, and Cramped Vents // Access Maze's dual-faced nature gives Victor decks a land that doubles as a flicker target to squeeze out incremental value alongside the artifact synergies already running in the 99.
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 the correct home for Cramped Vents // Access Maze — the 100-card singleton format rewards flexible dual lands, and blinking or recurring permanents is common enough that the land's enters-tapped downside gets mitigated in ways it simply wouldn't be in faster formats. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but effectively irrelevant: the land is too slow and too narrow to compete with the dual land staples already dominating those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning, since Planeswalker-centric strategies sometimes overlap with the blink shells that get the most out of Cramped Vents // Access Maze.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Cramped Vents // Access Maze sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying almost nothing for a niche role-player. Bulk dual lands rarely spike unless a new commander pushes a specific synergy into the mainstream, so treat this as a pickup-when-you-need-it card rather than anything to acquire speculatively.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.