Ancient Cellarspawn
Ancient Cellarspawn: Enchantment Creature - Horror, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Enchantment Creature - Horror
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Power / toughness
- 3/3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 16
- Artist
- Alexandre Honoré
- Commander rank
- 2,463 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Ancient Cellarspawn
Ancient Cellarspawn is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black enchantment creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 16 in that set, with art by Alexandre Honoré. It costs {1}{B}{B} (one generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $7.77 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.
Where it treads, plants wither. Where it breathes, poison spreads.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $7.77 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ancient Cellarspawn by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Ancient Cellarspawn
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) #47 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Ancient Cellarspawn, newest first.
- If the spell is no longer on the stack when Ancient Cellarspawn's last ability resolves, use its mana value as it last existed on the stack.
- Ancient Cellarspawn's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
- To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value.
Similar cards
Other enchantment creature cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Ancient Cellarspawn is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.