Hidden Nursery
Land — Cave
This land enters tapped.
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #3202
Hidden Nursery enters the battlefield tapped and produces one green mana — the cost is real, but any deck that wants to attack on the first main phase gets a land that pulls double duty as combat prep. Radha, Heir to Keld turns that tapped downside into a non-issue by demanding attackers before mana anyway, making Hidden Nursery a near-perfect fit for that shell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Radha, Heir to Keld
Radha, Heir to Keld requires attacking to generate red mana, so Hidden Nursery's enters-tapped penalty is irrelevant — you're swinging before your second main phase anyway, and the land feeds directly into Radha's combat-mana engine.
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva cares about land types and spreading counters, so Hidden Nursery's Forest subtype makes it a useful target for type-manipulation effects that slot into the Omo package.
Kellan, the Kid
Kellan, the Kid runs a Naya adventure shell that wants consistent green sources early, and Hidden Nursery provides that Forest subtype while slotting cleanly into the fixing package.
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Ruby, Daring Tracker pushes aggressive Gruul plans where Hidden Nursery's Forest typing satisfies green pip requirements without competing for a precious untapped land slot in a curve that leans forward.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hidden Nursery is legal everywhere but does almost no work outside Commander. In competitive formats like Modern or Legacy, a tapped Forest that gains life is simply outclassed by fetchlands, shocklands, and every dual land that doesn't cost you a turn. In Pioneer and Standard the life gain is marginal enough that dedicated ramp or fixing lands do the job better. Commander is where it lives — specifically in Gruul or Forest-matters decks that want to hit a specific land count, need the Forest subtype for cards like Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth, or are running budget builds where every $0.10 land slot counts.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Hidden Nursery is bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a slot-filler in a themed or budget build. It won't appreciate meaningfully, but it doesn't need to; it's a pickup-at-your-LGS card, not a hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.