Dark Maze
Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: This creature can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Homelands
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #29553
Dark Maze lets you activate an ability zero times for zero mana and trigger Crackdown Construct's power-pump repeatedly, turning a two-card combination into an arbitrarily large attacker on the spot. Outside that specific shell, it does nothing — a 2/3 with no text is unplayable.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dark Maze is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its relevance in all of them is almost entirely conditional on the Crackdown Construct combo. In Commander it sees the most play, slotting into artifact-value or spellslinger shells that already want Crackdown Construct as a finisher. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card quality to make the combo redundant, and Pauper's creature-centric aggro environment has no interest in a 2/3 that contributes nothing on its own. Dark Maze is a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Dark Maze is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a dollar-bin sleeve, not a buylist. Its price is unlikely to move meaningfully because supply is high and demand is narrow, capped entirely by how many players are actively building the Crackdown Construct combo.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.