Possessed Portal
Artifact
If a player would draw a card, that player skips that draw instead.
At the beginning of each end step, each player sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they discard a card.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fifth Dawn
- Price
- $2.27
- EDHREC rank
- #16685
Possessed Portal locks every player out of drawing cards and forces a discard at end of turn — the board state it creates is immediately oppressive for everyone, including you. The cost is real: you need a hand-refill engine like Ant Queen generating tokens, or a topdeck strategy that doesn't care about the draw ban, or this card just throttles your own gameplan alongside everyone else's.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Possessed Portal is a Commander card, full stop. Symmetrical lock pieces are too slow and too fragile for Legacy or Vintage, where the game ends before a six-mana artifact stabilizes the board, and Modern's efficient interaction makes it a liability. In Commander, the politics are brutal in the best way — dropping Possessed Portal at the right moment collapses every card-advantage engine at the table simultaneously, and the decks best positioned to abuse it are the ones that either generate value through permanents rather than draws, or pair it with a commander who renders hand size irrelevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.27 cheap tier
At $2.27, Possessed Portal sits in the bulk-rare tier despite being a genuinely unique lock piece with no direct functional reprint. That price is likely stable — it's narrow enough to stay cheap, but niche demand from prison and stax builders keeps it from bottoming out entirely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.