Evolving Door
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna #144 (rare)
- Price
- $0.37 USD
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Count the colors of the sacrificed creature, then search your library for a creature card that's exactly that many colors plus one. Exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Evolving Door has 5 printings, first in Streets of New Capenna (2022). EDHREC ranks it #20,002 among Commander cards. It appears most in Toph, Hardheaded Teacher decks (370 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Evolving Door most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Toph, Hardheaded Teacher: 370 decks
- Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods: 322 decks
- M'Baku, Jabari Chieftain: 1 decks
Often played with Evolving Door
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You count the colors of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield. Notably, if it was a double-faced card or a copy of another creature, that may be different from what its colors are in the graveyard.
- : If you choose to cast the spell, you must cast it as Evolving Door's ability resolves. You cannot wait and cast it later.
- : You must pay all costs for a spell you cast this way.
- : Evolving Door's ability instructs you to count the number of colors, but it doesn't track what those colors were. For example, if you sacrifice a creature that is green and no other colors, you'll search for any creature card that is exactly two colors, even if the card you search for isn't green.
- : If you sacrifice a colorless creature, you must search your library for a creature card with exactly one color. If you sacrifice a creature that is all five colors, you won't be able to find any creatures because there are no creature cards in Magic with six colors.