Thelonite Monk
Creature — Insect Monk Cleric
, Sacrifice a green creature: Target land becomes a Forest. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $0.66
- EDHREC rank
- #25785
Thelonite Monk turns all your Forests into Forests that tap for green mana — which sounds redundant until you realize it makes every land on the table a Forest if you want it to be, enabling explosive green synergies at the cost of a clunky five-mana activated ability. The setup cost is steep enough that it rarely earns its slot over faster land-type enablers.
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 |
In Commander, Thelonite Monk occupies a narrow niche in landfall or Forest-matters decks where changing land subtypes creates a meaningful payoff — think Yedora, Grave Gardener or Karametra, God of Harvests builds that want every land to qualify as a Forest. Legacy and Vintage are legal but entirely uninterested; the five-mana tap ability is far too slow for those formats and the effect isn't impactful enough to justify the slot. Thelonite Monk is effectively a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it competes poorly against instant-speed or passive effects that do the same job without costing an action and five mana.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.66 bulk tier
At $0.66, Thelonite Monk sits squarely in bulk territory, and the price reflects the card's limited demand rather than a buying opportunity. It holds its current floor mostly because the effect is genuinely unique, not because it sees meaningful play.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.