Is Cabaretti Courtyard good in Commander?

Cabaretti Courtyard

Land

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

CMC: 0
Mana cost
Color identity: C
Rarity: common
Set: Edge of Eternities Commander
Price: $0.35
EDHREC rank: #941

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Cabaretti Courtyard enters tapped but puts a basic land directly onto the battlefield — not into your hand — making every landfall trigger fire the moment it resolves. Decks built around Retreat to Emeria or Hearthhull, the Worldseed treat that as a two-for-one on a single land drop, and the tapped drawback barely registers when the payoff is that immediate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

63.0% of decks · synergy 0.54

Hearthhull, the Worldseed triggers on land enters, and Cabaretti Courtyard delivers two in one play — the Courtyard itself and the fetched basic — doubling up Hearthhull's ability without spending an extra card.

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

59.2% of decks · synergy 0.50

Cabaretti Courtyard's two consecutive land drops accelerate Szarel, Genesis Shepherd's creature-reanimation count, since Szarel cares about lands entering and the fetched basic counts as a second trigger on the same turn.

Tifa Lockhart

52.2% of decks · synergy 0.45

Tifa Lockhart rewards stacking up triggers efficiently, and Cabaretti Courtyard converts a single land play into two landfall events — clean, low-cost density for an ability Tifa wants to fire repeatedly.

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

48.0% of decks · synergy 0.44

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign benefits from any land-matters engine, and Cabaretti Courtyard's built-in fetch means Tannuk's graveyard and recursion lines get fueled without requiring extra ramp spells to manufacture the extra trigger.

Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer

34.1% of decks · synergy 0.27

Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer makes Elemental tokens whenever lands enter, so Cabaretti Courtyard's double-land effect translates directly into two tokens off one card — straightforward value in any Greensleeves list that isn't trimming land-matters pieces.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Cabaretti Courtyard earns its slot — landfall decks across Naya, Selesnya, and five-color builds run it as cheap, reliable trigger density that also fixes mana by fetching the basic type you need. In Pauper it's a legitimate role-player in landfall aggro shells where squeezing two enters off one card matters for Arbor Elf-style untap engines or Aura synergies. Modern and Pioneer have faster, untapped dual options that make the tapped downside too costly for competitive play, so Cabaretti Courtyard mostly sits those formats out. Legacy and Vintage have no real interest — the card is too slow against anything that matters there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

487 decks

Retreat to Emeria Haru, Hidden TalentCabaretti Courtyard

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all basic Mountains from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Forests from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Plains from your library onto the battlefield tapped

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67 decks

Scaretiller Retreat to CoralhelmCabaretti Courtyard

Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Put all basic Forests, Mountains, and Plains from your library onto the battlefield tapped

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43 decks

Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith Scaretiller Clock of OmensCabaretti Courtyard

Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite tapped Rock tokens; Put all basic Plains, Forests, and Mountains from your library onto the battlefield tapped

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7 decks

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild Stone-Seeder Hierophant ScaretillerCabaretti Courtyard

Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Put all basic Forests, Mountains, and Plains from your library onto the battlefield tapped

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4 decks

Scaretiller Voltaic Construct Paradise Mantle Illusionist's BracersCabaretti Courtyard

Infinite landfall triggers; Put all basic Mountains, Forests, and Plains from your library onto the battlefield

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Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Cabaretti Courtyard is firmly bulk — pick it up in any common/uncommon lot without thinking twice. Bulk land-matters pieces at this price rarely spike unless a new commander pushes landfall into the spotlight, so it's a stable, low-risk addition to any deck that wants it.

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Updated 2026-05-30. Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.