Sheltered Thicket
Land — Mountain Forest
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This land enters tapped.
Cycling (
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #626
Sheltered Thicket enters tapped, but it counts as both a Forest and a Mountain while also cycling for two mana — that dual typing is the whole reason it shows up in landfall and graveyard decks that need cheap cycling fodder. The ceiling spikes hard with Escape Protocol, where Dogmeat, Ever Loyal decks cycle it repeatedly to trigger scrappy token generation on demand.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal treats Sheltered Thicket as a repeatable engine piece — cycling it triggers the Junk mechanic, and with Escape Protocol in play that cycle can loop to generate a stream of tokens and graveyard value every single turn.

Yuma, Proud Protector
Yuma, Proud Protector cares about Deserts entering and leaving the graveyard, and Sheltered Thicket's cycling drops it straight into the yard to fuel Yuma's plant token generation at instant speed.

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade rewards cycling payoffs directly, and Sheltered Thicket slots in as a cycling land that also fixes red and green mana — two jobs for one card.

Ureni of the Unwritten
Ureni of the Unwritten builds around lands entering and graveyard recursion, so Sheltered Thicket's cycle-into-the-yard line feeds both axes of the engine.

Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed wants as many land types and enters-the-battlefield triggers as possible, and Sheltered Thicket delivers Forest and Mountain typing plus a cheap cycling outlet when the land itself isn't needed.
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, Sheltered Thicket earns its slot anywhere that wants cycling payoffs or graveyard seeding — the enters-tapped downside barely registers when the cycling ability doubles as card selection and a discard outlet. In Pioneer and Modern, it occupies a niche in cycling-combo shells and Bring to Light toolbox builds that need dual-typed lands without spending fetchland slots. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster options, so Sheltered Thicket rarely competes there outside of dedicated cycling strategies. Pauper and Standard don't get it, but those formats aren't the target audience anyway.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card





Escape ProtocolFluctuatorBone MiserEternal WitnessSheltered Thicket
Infinite black mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Escape ProtocolFluctuatorBone MiserTilling TreefolkSheltered Thicket
Infinite black mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Escape ProtocolFluctuatorBone MiserCartographerSheltered Thicket
Infinite black mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Escape ProtocolFluctuatorBone MiserGolgari FindbrokerSheltered Thicket
Infinite black mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Escape ProtocolFluctuatorBone MiserStoic BuilderSheltered Thicket
Infinite black mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Pricing data for Sheltered Thicket isn't available at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rates. Given that it's a utility dual land with a real combo application in Commander cycling builds, it tends to hold modest value rather than sitting in bulk bins.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.