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Cards/Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander/Cramped Vents

Cramped Vents

{3}{B}

Enchantment — Room

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander·dsc #17·Rare·2024·Art by Arthur Yuan
StandardNot Legal
ModernNot Legal
CommanderLegal
LegacyLegal
PioneerNot Legal
VintageLegal
Cramped Vents
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Oracle Text

When you unlock this door, this Room deals 6 damage to target creature an opponent controls. You gain life equal to the excess damage dealt this way.

(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.)

Print Details

Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
Number
#17
Rarity
Rare
Artist
Arthur Yuan
Frame
2015
Border
Black
Language
EN
Finishes
Nonfoil
USD
$0.35
EUR
0.35
MTGO Tix
0.44

Indicative figures.

Card Knowledge

Legalities

StandardNot Legal
PioneerNot Legal
ModernNot Legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal

Rulings20

9/20/2024·wotc

In some unusual cases, Cramped Vents may have deathtouch. Even 1 damage dealt to a creature from a source with deathtouch is considered lethal damage, so any amount greater than that will cause excess damage to be dealt, even if the total amount of damage isn't greater than the creature's toughness.

9/20/2024·wotc

If a spell or ability would create a copy of a Room spell on the stack, the copy retains the choice of which door was cast but also retains the full characteristics of the spell. The characteristics of the door that wasn't cast are still ignored while the copy is on the stack, and when the copy resolves, the token it becomes will enter with the appropriate door unlocked.

9/20/2024·wotc

An ability that triggers "when you unlock this door" triggers when that door becomes unlocked. This can happen one of two ways: (1) the door becomes unlocked on the battlefield or (2) the door becomes unlocked as the Room enters the battlefield because you cast the corresponding half. In the latter case, since the door becoming unlocked is what causes the ability to trigger, effects that cause abilities that trigger when a permanent enters to trigger an additional time (such as that of Panharmonicon) won't apply.

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