Meat Locker // Drowned Diner
Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, tap up to one target creature and put two stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #8275
Meat Locker // Drowned Diner gives you a repeatable counter-accumulation effect that can lock down a creature permanently, then flips into a land that replaces itself with a 2/2 and card selection. The setup cost — getting seven counters on a single creature — is real, but the payoff on both halves is above rate for a single card slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Meat Locker // Drowned Diner is best in slower, grind-oriented decks that can protect a saga over multiple turns — proliferate commanders like Atraxa, Praetors' Voice accelerate the counter accumulation and make the lock condition reachable before opponents answer it. In Standard and Pioneer, the card is too slow as removal against aggro but finds a home in controlling shell sideboards as a threat-answer hybrid that doesn't rot in hand once the creature is gone. In Pauper the Drowned Diner back half — a land that draws and makes a body — is legitimately powerful for a common, and the front half can tempo out opposing threats in midrange mirrors. Legacy and Vintage have too much speed and interaction for a saga this incremental to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Meat Locker // Drowned Diner sits firmly in bulk territory, which undersells how much raw utility is packed into the card. Bulk dual-function permanents this flexible tend to hold their floor and occasionally spike on Commander demand, but at this price you're just buying it — there's no reason to hesitate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.