Hidden Courtyard
Mana Cost: -
Type: Land — Cave
Oracle Text:
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: common
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price ( USD): $0.22
USD: $0.22 · EUR: €0.07
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Character Background
Hidden Courtyard is a slow but powerful value land: it enters tapped, taps for white, and can be sacrificed for a Discover-4 effect (exiling cards until you hit a nonland with mana value 4 or less and letting you cast it for free or put it into your hand), so it best supports control and midrange/value game plans that can afford to trade early tempo for one-shot card advantage and cheat a high-impact spell into play. Treat it as a late-game engine — it’s not for aggro — and build your deck with a high density of desirable 0–4 targets (cheap removals like Swords to Plowshares, game-winning permanents such as Smothering Tithe or four-mana planeswalkers/finishers) to improve hit quality. A concrete synergy is pairing Hidden Courtyard with library manipulation and recurring shuffles (scry, tutors, or reshuffle effects) so you stack good odds before activating; run only one or two copies as a top-end utility land so you don’t clog early draws. Remember the activation is sorcery-speed and costly, but can single-handedly refill and swing late games.
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