Doorkeeper Thrull
Creature — Thrull
Flash
Flying
Artifacts and creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #6491
Doorkeeper Thrull locks opponents out of activating abilities on creatures they don't control — a static tax that compounds in multiplayer and pairs devastatingly with Lavinia, Azorius Renegade's spell restrictions. The cost is a two-mana 1/2 with no evasion and no immediate impact, so it lives or dies on how much your table leans on activated abilities; against a creature-light stax or combo meta, it's a sideboard card wearing a maindeck badge, but Wormfang Manta loops and similar ETB-abuse lines give it extra purchase beyond pure taxing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade already punishes opponents for casting spells without paying their costs; Doorkeeper Thrull extends that cage to activated abilities on creatures, covering the axis Lavinia leaves open and making the board state genuinely suffocating for creature-reliant strategies.
Ellivere of the Wild Court
Ellivere of the Wild Court cares about enchanted creatures attacking and generating Roles, and Doorkeeper Thrull fits neatly into the flying-creature package those decks lean on — a taxing body that also happens to wear Auras cleanly and stifles opposing mana dorks or utility creatures that would otherwise answer your board.
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Sephara, Sky's Blade decks flood the board with flying creatures, and Doorkeeper Thrull earns its slot both as an on-theme flier and as a way to shut down opposing tap-activated creatures that would otherwise chump-block or generate value into Sephara's alpha strikes.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Doorkeeper Thrull is a niche inclusion whose value scales entirely with how creature-heavy your table's activated-ability ecosystem is — mana dorks, Selvala variants, tap-for-value creatures, and Equipment tutors all get blanked, which in the right pod is genuinely back-breaking. Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have faster, more efficient ways to interact with creatures, and a two-mana 1/2 with a conditional static ability rarely clears the bar there. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for Doorkeeper Thrull to stabilize before it matters, and it's not legal in Pauper. Oathbreaker can produce situations similar to Commander where the tax lines up well, particularly in blue-white Planeswalker shells that want to slow the game down.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Wormfang MantaThassa, Deep-DwellingDoorkeeper Thrull
Infinite turns; Lock
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Wormfang MantaTeleportation CircleDoorkeeper Thrull
Infinite turns; Lock
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Wormfang MantaBrago, King EternalDoorkeeper Thrull
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Doorkeeper Thrull isn't currently available in our feed, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest figure. Given its narrow role and non-mythic rarity, it typically sits in bulk-rare territory — worth picking up at under a dollar if you're building the right stax shell, not worth premium hunting.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.