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Central Elevator // Promising Stairs DSK 0044 · rare

Central Elevator · {3}{U} · Enchantment — Room · 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.) // Promising Stairs · {2}{U} · Enchantment — Room · At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. You win the game if there are eight or more different names among unlocked doors of Rooms you control. (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.)

Central Elevator · {3}{U} · Enchantment — Room · 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.)

Promising Stairs · {2}{U} · Enchantment — Room · At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. You win the game if there are eight or more different names among unlocked doors of Rooms you control. (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.)

Central Elevator
3U
Promising Stairs
2U

Cast one door. On the battlefield, paying a locked door’s cost as a sorcery unlocks it without casting another spell.

Price
from $0.224 printings
Win rate
51.9% GIH 8,337 instances · Premier Draft
Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 4,331 wins in 8,337 card-in-hand instances.

8,036 distinct games · 2,966 distinct drafts · games recorded Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024.

17Lands file dated Oct 29, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Play

Central Elevator: The four-mana blue door finds a Room that shares no currently unlocked name with a Room you control. Check existing unlocked names before selecting the next Room for your plan. Promising Stairs: The three-mana blue door surveils on your upkeep and checks for eight different unlocked names. Duplicate doors add no new names, and the win check belongs to that upkeep trigger rather than every unlock.

More

One-pick Draft
Central Elevator: The four-mana blue door finds a Room that shares no currently unlocked name with a Room you control. Check existing unlocked names before selecting the next Room for your plan. Promising Stairs: The three-mana blue door surveils on your upkeep and checks for eight different unlocked names. Duplicate doors add no new names, and the win check belongs to that upkeep trigger rather than every unlock.
Sealed vs Draft
Central Elevator: The four-mana blue door finds a Room that shares no currently unlocked name with a Room you control. Check existing unlocked names before selecting the next Room for your plan. Promising Stairs: The three-mana blue door surveils on your upkeep and checks for eight different unlocked names. Duplicate doors add no new names, and the win check belongs to that upkeep trigger rather than every unlock.

Draft data

51.9%when drawn (GIH)

−2.5 pp vs 54.5% average · 8,337 instances

Premier Draft · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · average from 1,011,949 games

#210 of 261 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.7 on average (45,626 packs).

35 of 42 blue cards · 5 of 7 blue rare cards.

Taken at pick6.38,067 picks
Makes the deck39.7%8,067 picks with known usage
When played49.4%16,170.2 matchesBenched 53.9%
23,832.8 matches
When drawn51.9%8,337 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 47.0% · 3,047 instances
● Drawn later 54.8% · 5,290 instances

In hand 51.9% · 8,337 instances
Unseen in deck 47.2% · 10,125 instances
+4.7 percentage points when drawn

Compared with blue cards

Win rate when drawn51.9%8,337 instances35 of 42
Opening hand47.0%3,047 instances40 of 41
Drawn later54.8%5,290 instances30 of 42
In the deck49.3%18,429 instances40 of 43
Without seeing it47.2%10,125 instances41 of 43
Improvement when drawn+4.7 pp8,337 instances / 10,125 instances13 of 42
When benched53.9%23,832.8 matches37 of 43
Makes the deck39.7%8,067 picks with known usage35 of 43
Pick (last seen)4.745,626 packs22 of 43
Taken at6.38,067 picks22 of 43

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Rooms UR55.3%2,582 instancesEerie Tempo WU52.8%898 instancesEerie Control UB51.6% ◌351 instancesManifest Dread UG45.9% ◌185 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (51.9% · 8,337 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Smoky Lounge // Misty Salon+8.0 pp8,687 games with both in the deck · 2,135 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 20% of 261 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024

Collect

4 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

DSK 0044 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · MTGO Redemption$0.24
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$0.30

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 78 packs (1.28%) · 14.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Collector BoosterTraditional foil rare or mythic100%Traditional foil rare or mythic

Wizards · Collecting Duskmourn: House of Horror ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Cristi Balanescu, DSK 44 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Duskmourn: House of Horror release notes · Oct 19, 2026
Wizards · Collecting Duskmourn: House of Horror · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗