Restricted Office // Lecture Hall
Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
(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
- 11
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #5340
Restricted Office // Lecture Hall puts a permanent under arrest on one side and generates card selection on the other, giving you both an answer and an engine on a single card. Aminatou, Veil Piercer decks run it because the enchantment-matters synergy is immediate and the floor — a rattlesnake arrest effect — is never dead.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Aminatou, Veil Piercer's ability to trigger off opponents' enchantments entering means Restricted Office // Lecture Hall does double duty: taxing a threat while simultaneously fueling the engine that makes Aminatou dangerous.
Zur, Eternal Schemer
Zur, Eternal Schemer animates enchantments into creatures, so Restricted Office // Lecture Hall becomes a creature with deathtouch or lifelink stapled to a prison piece — exactly the kind of free value Zur decks want from every enchantment 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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Restricted Office // Lecture Hall earns its slot in enchantment-matters and control shells where both halves of a modal card pull their weight — the arrest side answers a problem permanent, and the back half provides filtering at a reasonable cost. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but those formats demand tighter rate efficiency and purpose-built answers; a split card that does neither thing at a premium speed is unlikely to compete with format-staple removal or draw. Commander remains the natural home, where consistency matters less than flexibility and a card that wears multiple hats across a long game is worth a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Restricted Office // Lecture Hall isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market rate. Given its niche role in enchantment-matters Commander builds, it's unlikely to command a significant premium — budget players should be able to pick it up without hesitation.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.