Hidden Path
Enchantment
Green creatures have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Dark
- Price
- $6.98
- EDHREC rank
- #22544
Hidden Path makes all Forests into unblockable corridors for green creatures — every Forest you control, not just yours — and it costs eight mana for the privilege. That price tag is the whole argument against it: effects this narrow rarely justify that much mana in any format where faster threats exist.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hidden Path is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it has a niche home in Forests-matter or Forestwalk tribal builds — think mono-green Elf or Druid commanders who can flood the board and then end the game through evasion — but the eight-mana cost means you need the game to go long before it matters. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more broken things to do on turn four, so Hidden Path doesn't register there. Oathbreaker shares Commander's casual DNA and is realistically the only other context where anyone runs it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Hidden Path's effect is narrow enough that the honest alternative is often cutting the effect entirely and adding more reliable evasion like Nylea, God of the Hunt or Primal Rage, both well under a dollar, which grant trample to the whole team rather than gating evasion on an opponent's land type. If you specifically want the Forestwalk angle, Lure of Prey and similar aura-based Forestwalk pieces cost far less and require less mana, though they apply to a single creature rather than the board.
Price Context
Current price
$6.98 mid tier
At $6.98, Hidden Path sits in mid-tier pricing for a card with extremely narrow applications and low demand — that price is driven almost entirely by age and scarcity rather than play rate. It's not a card that appreciates; supply is stable and demand is low, so $6.98 is a fair ceiling rather than a floor.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.