Evolving Door
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice a creature: Count the colors of the sacrificed creature, then search your library for a creature card that's exactly that many colors plus one. Exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19009
Evolving Door lets you sacrifice a creature to tutor any creature that shares exactly one color with it from your library — an engine that chains permanent value as long as you have bodies to feed it. The activation cost is real, but in decks built around sacrifice or creature typing, it converts expendable fodder into exactly the piece you need.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Evolving Door does its best work — 100-card singleton rewards tutors heavily, and the ability to fetch any creature sharing a color with your sacrifice target gives multicolor decks a surprisingly wide net. In Modern and Pioneer the card competes with faster, more consistent search effects and rarely makes the cut outside niche creature-toolbox shells. Legacy has even less patience for a three-mana enchantment that requires an additional sacrifice to function. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander logic at a smaller scale, and the narrower deck size makes hitting the right color overlap easier to engineer.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Evolving Door isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. It's a unique effect with no direct reprint history, so copies can sit higher than expected for a non-staple.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.