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Tranquil Thicket

Land

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Bloomburrow Commander
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#954
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Tranquil Thicket card art
Tranquil Thicket enters tapped, which is the real cost — but the cycling ability turns it into a free cantrip the moment you no longer need a land drop, making it strictly better than a Forest in any deck that cares about land count, graveyard density, or raw card flow. Commanders like Borborygmos Enraged want it in the graveyard as fuel, and Galadriel, Elven-Queen wants it cycled to trigger land-drop payoffs without spending a real card.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Galadriel, Elven-Queen

Galadriel, Elven-Queen

56.8% of decks · synergy 0.53

Galadriel, Elven-Queen rewards you for playing lands each turn, and Tranquil Thicket lets you cycle it late while still counting as a land hit earlier — every copy is doing double duty across two different game phases.

02
Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Winter, Cynical Opportunist

58.2% of decks · synergy 0.50

Winter, Cynical Opportunist cares about card flow and incremental advantage, and Tranquil Thicket slots in as a land that converts to a card whenever the mana isn't needed — exactly the kind of low-friction cycling engine Winter decks are built around.

04
The Gitrog Monster

The Gitrog Monster

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.34

The Gitrog Monster draws a card whenever a land hits the graveyard, so cycling Tranquil Thicket draws two cards for one mana — it's one of the cleanest individual value plays in the entire deck.

05
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

35.4% of decks · synergy 0.33

Morska, Undersea Sleuth cares about looting and graveyard interaction, and Tranquil Thicket feeds that engine as a cycling land that replaces itself while stocking the bin.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Tranquil Thicket is a Commander staple first — the singleton format's tolerance for enters-tapped lands is high, and the cycling ability is worth the tempo cost in a 100-card deck where consistency matters more than raw speed. In Pauper, cycling lands see real play as cheap card-selection tools in slower controlling and combo shells, and Tranquil Thicket earns its slot there for the same reason. Legacy and Vintage are both technically legal, but the enters-tapped clause is disqualifying in formats where untapped land drops on turns one and two determine outcomes — no serious deck there reaches for it. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's calculus closely enough that the same logic applies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Tranquil Thicket is bulk — grab as many copies as you need without a second thought. The price is stable because supply is deep and demand is spread across casual formats rather than concentrated in any high-stakes competitive scene.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.