Ghostly Keybearer

Creature — Spirit

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, unlock a locked door of up to one target Room you control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#13093
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Ghostly Keybearer card art
Ghostly Keybearer unlocks a door on entry and again whenever it attacks, giving you repeatable access to any door's triggered ability without sacrificing the permanent. The cost is that you need doors in play to get anything out of it, making it dead weight in decks that aren't built around that mechanic.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Ghostly Keybearer is a Commander card — the door mechanic rewards the kind of slow, synergy-layered boards that multiplayer supports, and the repeatable attack trigger compounds nicely over a long game. In 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, the setup cost is too steep: you need doors in play, a creature that survives to attack, and enough time to cash in, which is a three-part ask competitive decks won't tolerate. Standard is the one non-Commander format where Ghostly Keybearer could see fringe play if doors become a critical mass archetype, but that window is rotation-dependent. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamics closely enough that the same synergy logic applies.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Ghostly Keybearer is firmly bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a mechanic breaks out, and door synergies haven't shown that kind of trajectory, so treat this as a low-risk pickup for the niche decks that want it.

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