Derelict Attic // Widow's Walk
Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
(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
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #7996
Derelict Attic // Widow's Walk enters as a land that replaces itself with a Clue, then transforms into a dual-colored land that triggers life loss and Specter token creation whenever you sacrifice an artifact — that's a lot of function stacked onto one land slot. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal decks run it at a 34% clip for good reason: the sacrifice outlet and token engine live on the same permanent you'd play anyway.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal cares about sacrificing artifacts to drain opponents, and Derelict Attic // Widow's Walk provides both the Clue to sacrifice and a permanent sacrifice trigger engine — it's not a synergy piece you squeeze in, it's a land slot that actively advances the game plan.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Derelict Attic // Widow's Walk earns its slot in any Dimir or Grixis deck that wants artifact sacrifice payoffs — the Clue on entry replaces itself, so the land is effectively free card advantage. Outside Commander, the card is legal in every major constructed format, but it's too slow for competitive Modern or Legacy environments where two-land MDFCs need to contribute more immediately. Standard and Pioneer are its most realistic non-Commander homes, specifically in sacrifice-based midrange shells that can use the transformed side's trigger repeatedly. Pauper is where budget brewers might explore it most freely, since Clue generation and token production on a land are both meaningful at that power level.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Derelict Attic // Widow's Walk is deep bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're buying it because it costs nothing and does real work. Bulk rares with this much text on a land face tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so grab playsets freely and don't expect any movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.