Is Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar good in Commander?

Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar

Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room

You may play lands from your graveyard.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

CMC: 8
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: mythic
Set: Duskmourn: House of Horror
Price: $9.00
EDHREC rank: #1792

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Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar card art

Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar lands as a free sacrifice outlet on the front half and flips into a land that puts cards from your graveyard back on top — the kind of utility that land-sacrifice engines like Glacial Chasm abuse for repeated triggers. Hearthhull, the Worldseed decks show the highest adoption rate, and the card earns that slot because both halves pull in the same direction: lands matter, graveyard matters, value compounds.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.25

Hearthhull, the Worldseed wants lands in the graveyard and ways to recur them, and Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar delivers both — the front half sacs a land for free, the back half returns cards from your bin to the top of your library, feeding Hearthhull's landfall and recursion loops simultaneously.

Titania, Protector of Argoth

25.7% of decks · synergy 0.23

Titania, Protector of Argoth creates a 5/3 Elemental every time a land hits your graveyard, so Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar's free sac outlet on the front side is a token factory with no mana investment required.

The Necrobloom

25.7% of decks · synergy 0.22

The Necrobloom triggers off lands entering from unusual zones, and Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar's Forgotten Cellar side puts lands from your graveyard back into play lines — both halves feed the engine The Necrobloom is already running.

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

25.2% of decks · synergy 0.22

Azusa, Lost but Seeking plays three lands per turn, which means burning through your hand fast, and Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar's back half refuels by returning cards from the graveyard to the top of your library — pure velocity for a deck that can run out of gas.

The Gitrog Monster

22.5% of decks · synergy 0.21

The Gitrog Monster draws a card whenever a land goes to the graveyard, so Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar's free sacrifice outlet on the front half is a repeatable draw trigger that costs nothing beyond the land itself.

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

Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — broad access, but Commander is where it actually sees play. In sixty-card formats the card is too slow and too situational; land-sacrifice synergies and graveyard recursion both exist in faster, more redundant shells that don't need an MDFC to bridge the two halves. Commander is the natural home because the singleton format rewards flexible, multi-role cards, the games go long enough for the back half to matter, and land-synergy commanders provide the payoffs that justify the slot. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth naming — low-powered enough that a free sac outlet with an upside land stapled on is a real contribution.

Key Combos

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