Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate
Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, manifest dread.
(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
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #10163
Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate puts a mana-generating artifact on the board that pays you every time an opponent blocks one of your attacking creatures, then transforms into a combat trick that can make a creature unblockable on demand. The front half requires attackers to actually connect with blockers to generate value, so it earns its slot in aggro builds but stalls in control shells that never swing wide.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods incentivizes throwing multiple creatures into combat every turn, which is exactly the scenario where Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate generates mana repeatedly — and when one crucial attacker needs a clean path, Tunnel of Hate closes the deal.
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, Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate is a niche role-player that earns its spot in creature-combat decks and nowhere else — three opponents means more potential blockers to trigger the front half, but four-player politics also means your attacks get chump-blocked constantly, which is actually fine here. In 60-card aggro formats like Modern and Pioneer, it competes with a crowded field of two-drop artifacts and rarely makes the cut unless you're specifically building around combat triggers. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem at higher power density — the effect is too conditional and too slow. Pauper is its best non-Commander home, where resources are tighter and a free mana sink with a relevant back side can punch above its weight in creature-heavy mirrors.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate is pure bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in, not a purchase. There's no meaningful price floor to speak of, and narrow utility in competitive formats means it's unlikely to appreciate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.