Dollhouse of Horrors

Artifact

{1}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's a 0/0 Construct artifact in addition to its other types and it has "This token gets +1/+1 for each Construct you control." It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Magic Online Promos
Price
EDHREC rank
#11732
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Dollhouse of Horrors card art
Dollhouse of Horrors turns every creature that dies in your graveyard into a future threat, manufacturing 2/2 Construct tokens on a repeatable, artifact-based engine that opponents have to answer twice. The cost in mana and setup is real — you're paying to activate it each turn — but in a graveyard-matters shell like Ayara, First of Locthwain, the payoff compounds fast enough to justify the slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Dollhouse of Horrors is a Commander card at heart — the slow, incremental value it generates is exactly what a 100-card singleton format rewards, and creature-heavy graveyard strategies have the density to keep it firing every turn. In Modern and Legacy, the five-mana artifact investment is too slow and too easy to interact with at instant speed, and dedicated reanimation or recursion packages do the job more efficiently. Pioneer gives it a slightly more forgiving field, but the same fundamental problem applies — it asks too much mana over too many turns when faster threats dominate. Stick to Commander, where the inevitability it creates becomes a genuine closing engine.

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Price Context

Current price

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Price data for Dollhouse of Horrors isn't currently available in our system, so check Scryfall or TCGplayer for the latest figures before picking one up. It's a casual Commander staple rather than a competitive constructed piece, which historically keeps its ceiling modest — the kind of card worth grabbing as a cheap addition rather than a significant budget commitment.

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