Key to the Side-Door
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A cheap artifact that helps enable Storied and can repeatedly force your best creature through stalled boards. Its card-draw ability is powerful but extremely situational in Limited because it requires drafting duplicate legendary cards.
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Gameplay notes
Treat the draw ability as occasional upside rather than a deckbuilding plan. Deploy the Key early when it helps reach Storied, but avoid spending three mana on unblockability unless it produces a meaningful attack or lethal damage; if using the draw-two ability with a beginning-of-combat payoff, activate it during your first main phase.
Key synergies
Making Orcrist's equipped creature unblockable guarantees its combat-damage trigger, allowing even a small tribal creature to produce the full Treasure payout.
Key to the Side-Door cheaply supplies one of the three artifacts, legendaries, or Sagas needed to activate Fíli's permanent team-wide bonus.
Making Bejeweled Warg unblockable guarantees its combat-damage trigger, allowing it to grow every turn or repeatedly produce Treasures.
The Key advances Dáin's Storied threshold for only one mana, helping turn on his attack-taxing ability early.
The Key can make Bilbo unblockable every turn, letting him attack safely and repeatedly generate value from graveyard spells.
When the Key's restrictive draw-two ability is available, activating it before combat turns on Toymaker; the Key can then make Toymaker's +3/+0 first-strike recipient unblockable.