Hickory Woodlot
Land
This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it.
, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add 
. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $3.37
- EDHREC rank
- #6651
Hickory Woodlot enters tapped and can only untap twice before it's spent — a real cost — but those two uses each produce two green mana, and every time it taps it puts a land in your graveyard, which is exactly the fuel Lumra, Bellow of the Woods wants. Run it when your deck rewards lands hitting the graveyard; skip it everywhere else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods triggers off lands entering the graveyard, and Hickory Woodlot is purpose-built to put itself there — twice, on a schedule, while producing mana each time.
Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres cares about proliferate and counters, and Hickory Woodlot's charge counter mechanic gives proliferate effects a land-based target to accelerate — squeeze an extra tap out of it and convert the mana into more proliferate activations.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Hickory Woodlot is a niche inclusion — you run it specifically in decks that want lands in the graveyard or that interact with charge counters and proliferate, not as general ramp. In Pauper, it's legal but competes against cleaner common options that don't self-destruct. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but would never touch it; the opportunity cost against fetchlands and dual lands is absurd. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: narrow fit, high synergy ceiling in the right shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.37 cheap tier
At $3.37, Hickory Woodlot sits at the high end of what you'd expect for a niche utility land — demand from Lumra, Bellow of the Woods builds is the main driver. It's not a staple at that price, so if Lumra decks cool off, expect the price to drift down.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.