Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab DSK 0091 · uncommon
Defiled Crypt · {3}{B} · Enchantment — Room · Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Horror enchantment creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (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.)
Cadaver Lab · {B} · Enchantment — Room · When you unlock this door, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (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.)
- Defiled Crypt
- 3B
- Cadaver Lab
- B
Cast one door. On the battlefield, paying a locked door’s cost as a sorcery unlocks it without casting another spell.
- Price
- from $0.241 printing
- Win rate
- 53.5% GIH 31,633 instances · Premier Draft
Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · 17Lands
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 16,935 wins in 31,633 card-in-hand instances.
29,587 distinct games · 10,890 distinct drafts · games recorded Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024.
17Lands file dated Oct 29, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Play
Defiled Crypt: The four-mana black door makes a Horror the first time cards leave your graveyard each turn. Recursion and flashback can enable it, but moving several cards at once still triggers only once. Cadaver Lab: The one-mana black door returns a creature to hand when unlocked. Cast this cheaper right door first when needed; the recovered creature still needs its normal casting cost.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Defiled Crypt: The four-mana black door makes a Horror the first time cards leave your graveyard each turn. Recursion and flashback can enable it, but moving several cards at once still triggers only once. Cadaver Lab: The one-mana black door returns a creature to hand when unlocked. Cast this cheaper right door first when needed; the recovered creature still needs its normal casting cost.
- Sealed vs Draft
- Defiled Crypt: The four-mana black door makes a Horror the first time cards leave your graveyard each turn. Recursion and flashback can enable it, but moving several cards at once still triggers only once. Cadaver Lab: The one-mana black door returns a creature to hand when unlocked. Cast this cheaper right door first when needed; the recovered creature still needs its normal casting cost.
Draft data
−0.9 pp vs 54.5% average · 31,633 instances
Premier Draft · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · average from 1,011,949 games
#176 of 261 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.0 on average (95,239 packs).
25 of 43 black cards · 12 of 15 black uncommon cards.
27,395.9 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 50.0% · 12,287 instances
● Drawn later 55.8% · 19,346 instances
In hand 53.5% · 31,633 instances
Unseen in deck 50.5% · 43,885 instances
+3.0 percentage points when drawn
Compared with black cards
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
Sacrifice BR56.0%3,803 instancesDelirium Grind BG55.5%4,836 instancesReanimator WB53.8%5,060 instancesEerie Control UB53.3%3,148 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.5% · 31,633 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Ghost Vacuum+8.5 pp4,690 games with both in the deck · 951 both drawnTrapped in the Screen+5.2 pp8,635 games with both in the deck · 1,975 both drawnFinal Vengeance+3.0 pp26,839 games with both in the deck · 6,159 both drawnHow 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 33% of 261 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · MTGO Redemption | $0.24 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · collector-sample · Play Booster | $0.34 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 27 packs (3.70%) · 36.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a collector-sample · Modeled · About 1 in 100 packs (1.00%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
| Collector Booster Sample Pack | Foil uncommon | 100% | Foil uncommon |
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
- Martin de Diego Sádaba, DSK 91 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Regular printing printings →
- 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 ↗