Central Elevator // Promising Stairs
Central Elevator // Promising Stairs: Enchantment - Room, Duskmourn: House of Horror. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}
- Mana value
- 7
- Type
- Enchantment - Room
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 44
- Artist
- Cristi Balanescu
- Commander rank
- 7,820 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Surveil
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About Central Elevator // Promising Stairs
Central Elevator // Promising Stairs is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue enchantment from Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK), an expansion set released in September 2024. It is collector number 44 in that set, with art by Cristi Balanescu. It costs {3}{U} (three generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.23 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
When you unlock this door, search your library for a Room card that doesn't have the same name as a Room you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
(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.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.23 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Central Elevator // Promising Stairs by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Central Elevator // Promising Stairs
Central Elevator // Promising Stairs has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) #336 | Rare | 2024 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos (PDSK) #44p | Rare | 2024 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos (PDSK) #44s | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Central Elevator // Promising Stairs, newest first.
- Two or more objects (cards, permanents, spells, etc.) have the same name if they have at least one name in common, even if one or more of those objects have additional names. Central Elevator's ability lets you search your library for any Room card that doesn't share a name with a Room you control on the battlefield, checking only the names of unlocked doors. If a Room on the battlefield has no unlocked doors, it doesn't have either of its names.
- Promising Stairs's ability counts names, not permanents. A Room with two unlocked doors has two names.
Similar cards
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