Is Scattered Groves good in Commander?

Scattered Groves

Land — Forest Plains

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This land enters tapped.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC: 0
Mana cost
Color identity: GW
Rarity: rare
Set: Doctor Who
Price: —
EDHREC rank: #945

Scattered Groves enters tapped but cycles away for one mana when you need gas more than a land — that flexibility is the whole reason to run it. In enchantment- and junk-matters builds like Dogmeat, Ever Loyal, the cycling trigger itself becomes a resource, making it pull double duty as both a land and an engine piece. It's never a premium dual, but it earns its slot anywhere cycling matters.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal

54.6% of decks · synergy 0.46

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal wants cards in the graveyard and cycling triggers on demand, so Scattered Groves feeds both — the cycle generates a Junk token while thinning the deck toward action.

Yuma, Proud Protector cares about Deserts in the graveyard, and Scattered Groves is a Forest Plains that cycles itself there on cue, converting a spare land into a draw and a graveyard resource simultaneously.

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

48.8% of decks · synergy 0.41

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade rewards cycling with card-draw triggers, and Scattered Groves doubles as a land that converts into exactly one of those triggers whenever the mana base is already set.

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.40

Morska, Undersea Sleuth builds value off cycling and discarding, so Scattered Groves is cheap cycle fodder that also keeps the land count honest in the early game.

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant

48.1% of decks · synergy 0.36

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant decks run Scattered Groves primarily for the fixing — white-green is the core identity — but the cycling escape hatch is a real upside in a build that wants to keep drawing toward its protect-Frodo package.

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	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

In Commander, Scattered Groves is a budget-friendly cycling land that earns its slot in any white-green or Selesnya-adjacent deck that wants cycling synergies — it's near-universal in Dogmeat builds and respectable in any list running Escape Protocol. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it sees occasional fringe play in cycling-combo shells but gets edged out by faster options in most mainboards. Legacy and Vintage have access to fetchable duals that make Scattered Groves largely irrelevant. It's ineligible for Standard and Pauper, so Commander and the 60-card eternal formats are its real home.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

41 decks