Doors of Durin
Legendary Artifact
Whenever you attack, scry 2, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Until your next turn, it gains trample if you control a Dwarf and hexproof if you control an Elf.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4452
Doors of Durin puts every attacking creature's top card onto the battlefield — that's a free creature wave every combat, and with Breath of Fury in the mix it converts into infinite attack steps. The four-mana enchantment asks almost nothing and returns that investment the moment your first attacker connects; Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire builds an entire game plan around it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire attacks and immediately triggers Doors of Durin, putting a permanent off the top of every attacker's library directly into play — each attack step snowballs into a wider board before blockers are even declared.
Wulfgar of Icewind Dale
Wulfgar of Icewind Dale doubles triggered abilities that fire on attack, which means Doors of Durin triggers twice per creature — two permanents hit the battlefield per attacker, turning a single swing into a full board rebuild.
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood pairs Alena's power-to-mana conversion with Gilanra's cascade on big creatures, and Doors of Durin feeds both halves — every attacker that flips a high-power creature makes Alena generate even more mana on the next turn.
Radha, Heir to Keld
Radha, Heir to Keld incentivizes attacking early and often, and Doors of Durin turns those early swings into card-advantage engines — each attack adds permanents to the battlefield while Radha keeps the mana flowing to cast whatever doesn't land off the top.
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Ruby, Daring Tracker rewards aggressive creature strategies, and Doors of Durin ensures that every attack refills the board — the combination means Ruby's damage output scales with the number of permanents already in play, compounding quickly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Doors of Durin is a Commander card through and through — the effect is too slow and too reliant on a wide attacking board to compete in Legacy or Vintage, where the game is often decided before a four-mana enchantment can pay off. In those formats it's technically legal but functionally irrelevant. Commander is where Doors of Durin earns its slot: 100-card singleton dilutes the redundancy concern, games go long enough for the enchantment to trigger multiple times, and the permanents-onto-the-battlefield effect scales directly with the size of your attacking force.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Doors of DurinBreath of FuryMortuary
Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Current price
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Pricing data for Doors of Durin isn't currently available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given its niche Commander appeal and Lord of the Rings set origin, it tends to sit in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up whenever you're building an attack-trigger shell.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Breath of Fury
- Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
- Wulfgar of Icewind Dale
- Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
- Radha, Heir to Keld
- Ruby, Daring Tracker
- Mortuary
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.