Secluded Courtyard
Land
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
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.: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $3.81
- EDHREC rank
- #223
Secluded Courtyard enters untapped and taps for any color your chosen creature type needs — that's a dual land for tribal decks with no real downside. In something like Éowyn, Shieldmaiden, where every pip matters and the Human and Soldier counts run deep, it's an automatic include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden runs dense Human and Soldier tribal synergies across white and red, and Secluded Courtyard smooths out that two-color mana without ever entering tapped — exactly what an aggressive go-wide strategy needs.
Clavileño, First of the Blessed
Clavileño, First of the Blessed is a Vampire tribal engine that wants black mana on curve every single game, and Secluded Courtyard naming Vampire is effectively a second Swamp that also covers the occasional white or red spell.
Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
Admiral Brass, Unsinkable helms a Pirate tribal deck spread across four colors, and Secluded Courtyard naming Pirate does more fixing work here than almost anywhere else — four-color manabases can't afford to pass on untapped fixers at this price.
Hakbal of the Surging Soul
Hakbal of the Surging Soul is a Merfolk tribal commander in Simic, and Secluded Courtyard naming Merfolk slots in as redundant fixing alongside Breeding Pool and Hinterland Harbor for a deck that wants to hit blue and green every turn.
Ashling, the Limitless
Ashling, the Limitless runs Elemental tribal in red, and Secluded Courtyard naming Elemental is simply a Mountain with upside in a mono-red shell — the flexibility costs nothing, so it earns a slot on pure consistency grounds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Secluded Courtyard is a Commander card first and foremost — tribal synergy is the entire format's lifeblood, and an untapped land that produces any color within your tribe is a genuine upgrade over basic lands in nearly every tribal build. In Modern and Pioneer, tribal aggro decks like Merfolk or Goblins could use it, but those formats demand more consistent color fixing from lands that interact with other lands, so it sees only niche play. Legacy has access to every dual land ever printed, which pushes Secluded Courtyard out of contention. Standard and Oathbreaker are legal formats where it can show up in tribal shells, but Commander is where it does its best work by a wide margin.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.81 cheap tier
At $3.81, Secluded Courtyard sits in the cheap tier for what amounts to a tribal dual land, and that price is well-justified given its near-auto-include status in any Commander deck built around a creature type. Demand is broad enough across countless tribal commanders that this price is stable — don't expect it to drop significantly.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.