Painter's Studio // Defaced Gallery
Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them until the end of your next turn.
(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
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #9974
Painter's Studio // Defaced Gallery enters and immediately makes an artifact token, then flips into a land that taps for colorless or sacrifices artifacts to loot — two useful halves for one card slot. Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival makes both sides matter: the token feeds her artifact-matters triggers and the loot ability turns dead draws into live ones.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival wants a steady stream of cheap artifacts to trigger her cost-reduction and pump abilities, and Painter's Studio // Defaced Gallery delivers both an immediate token and a land that keeps converting excess artifacts into cards — it's one of the cleanest role-players in her 99.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Painter's Studio // Defaced Gallery is legal across every major format but is doing real work almost exclusively in Commander, where the ETB token and loot-land hybrid slot cleanly into artifact-token and sacrifice strategies. In Modern and Pioneer it competes with more efficient artifact payoffs and rarely earns a slot outside fringe brews. Standard players building artifact synergies should consider it as cheap, consistent glue. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the effect is too slow and the upside too modest for those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Painter's Studio // Defaced Gallery is deep bulk — pick it up freely and don't expect meaningful price movement. Bulk MDFCs like this rarely spike unless a breakout Commander build pushes demand, and nothing about this card's power level suggests that's coming.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.