Durnan of the Yawning Portal

Card text

Whenever Durnan attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may exile a creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may cast it. That spell has undaunted. (It costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)

Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $15.61 (as of 2026-08-30).

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Format legality

Legality of Durnan of the Yawning Portal by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

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Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Durnan of the Yawning Portal, newest first.

• 2022-06-10 If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
• 2022-06-10 You must still pay all costs (as modified by the undaunted ability) and follow all normal timing rules when casting a spell this way.
• 2022-06-10 If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
• 2022-06-10 Causing an opponent to lose the game after you've announced that you're casting a spell with undaunted and determined its total cost won't cause you to have to pay more mana.
• 2022-06-10 Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
• 2022-06-10 Effects that reduce what you pay to cast a spell don't affect its mana value.
• 2022-06-10 Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
• 2022-06-10 If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.

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