Orazca Puzzle-Door
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19942
Orazca Puzzle-Door gives you a repeatable loot effect stapled to a mana sink that can eventually generate a 4/4 artifact creature token — all on a single permanent for three mana. The ceiling is real in the right shell, but the rate is slow enough that it earns a slot only in decks that specifically want artifacts on the battlefield or need a late-game mana dump.
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, Orazca Puzzle-Door fits neatly into artifact-matters and sacrifice strategies where the Construct token does double duty as a payoff and fodder. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the activated abilities are too mana-intensive to compete in any of those 60-card formats where tempo is everything. Stick to Commander, where slow engines get time to breathe.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Orazca Puzzle-Door is firmly bulk — pick it up in any trade binder without a second thought. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless they find a broken interaction, and nothing about this card suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.