Secluded Courtyard

Land

As this enters, choose a creature type.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add one mana of any colour. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature or creature card of the chosen type.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (42)

trippy_mcfly on Cumly Cube

2 weeks ago

Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4.1! 4 months ago, Cumly Cube 1.4 was released. This was the final major update. As promised, minor tweaks would continue, both to fix any remaining imbalances and keep the card pool fresh. The following 19 swaps should help remove some dominant strategies, specifically by curtailing the power of the “green slop” archetype. The additions also add a lot of new excitement to the cube in only 19 cards; there are multiple cards that introduce the monarch into the game, making this a more central mechanic of Cumly Cube, and there is one card that can be used as a niche combo finish with a Cumly Cube staple.

Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:

REMOVED:

1. Artifact Mutation: too powerful
2. Aura Mutation: too powerful
3. Captain Sisay: too powerful
4. Chromatic Lantern: mana fixing should not be this easy
5. Druid of the Anima: too obvious a choice of Cumly
6. Endbringer: too powerful in multiplayer
7. Explosive Vegetation: mana fixing should not be this easy
8. Firemind Vessel: mana fixing should not be this easy
9. Gilded Goose: too obvious a choice of Cumly
10. Gilded Lotus: too much ramp
11. Glissa Sunseeker: too hateful against artifact decks
12. Growth Spasm: too much ramp
13. Growth Spiral: too much ramp
14. Jetmir, Nexus of Revels: too obvious a choice of Cumly
15. Joiner Adept: too obvious a choice of Cumly
16. Karakas: too powerful
17. Library of Alexandria: too powerful
18. Muldrotha, the Gravetide: too powerful
19. Worldfire: an iconic Cumly Cube card, but sadly too unbalanced due to the ability to float mana and cast your Cumly after, almost certainly winning the game. This strategy still exists with Apocalypse, but is less of a guarantee now

ADDED:

1. Afterlife Insurance: supports the Spirit creature type and instant synergies
2. Arcane Encyclopedia: supports artifact decks
3. Court of Ardenvale: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube
4. Eldrazi Confluence: supports Eldrazi decks
5. Fiend Hunter: supports the Human creature type
6. Horizon of Progress: a utility land to help with mana fixing
7. Moira, Urborg Haunt: supports the Spirit creature type and graveyard synergies
8. Palace Sentinels: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Human creature type
9. Papalymo Totolymo: supports the Dwarf creature type and noncreature synergies
10. Refocus: supports instant synergies
11. Rile: supports instant synergies and works well with Dinosaurs
12. Sage of Hours: supports the Human creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
13. Secluded Courtyard: encourages creature synergies
14. Sigarda, Champion of Light: supports the Angel creature type and the Human creature type
15. Staunch Throneguard: the monarch is now supported more heavily in Cumly Cube, and supports the Construct creature type
16. Thassa's Ire: supports enchantment decks and can do some very powerful things with certain creatures
17. The Golden Throne: supports sacrifice decks and facilitates possible great comebacks
18. Three Tree City: encourages creature synergies
19. Wizard's Rockets: a utility artifact to help with mana fixing

Cloudy2024 on Naya Allies

2 months ago

Maybe Secluded Courtyard instead ofJungle Shrine?

PolyTheCakeEater on 5 color sliver company

10 months ago

Nice deck! I have some suggestions as I have played slivers for a while in modern. Land base probably will need some work. Use cards like Secluded Courtyard and Cavern of Souls as they let you use any colour. Additionally, 24 land seems like a lot especially with low CMC creatures, I run 20 land in mine. Manaweft is ok but can be unreliable without haste, but that is just my opinion. Dregscape Sliver and Leeching Sliver are solid options. Especially Leeching as it adds up really quick and has won me many games. Diffusion Sliver and Unsettled Mariner are also great at protecting your guys if the game goes longer. Feel free to check out my list on my profile. It's similar to yours. Great deck and keep at it bro!

Los333 on General Tazri’s Allies

1 year ago

Akoum Battlesinger Beastcaller Savant Harabaz Druid Kor Bladewhirl Makindi Aeronaut Serene Steward Chasm Guide Ally Encampment Black Market Connections Cavern of Souls Changeling Outcast Conjurer's Mantle Cryptic Gateway Descendants' Path Haunting Voyage Kindred Charge Kindred Summons Molten Echoes Patchwork Banner Path of Ancestry Radiant Destiny Raise the Palisade Reflections of Littjara Secluded Courtyard Shared Animosity Stoneforge Masterwork Unclaimed Territory Unified Front Unsettled Mariner Urza's Incubator Arcane Signet Chromatic Lantern Command Tower Cryptolith Rite Elven Chorus Smothering Tithe Song of Freyalise Tarnation Vista Unknown Shores Elfhame Sanctuary Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip Crumbling Necropolis Crystal Grotto Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip Reflecting Pool Mistgate Pathway  ^Flip Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip Mystic Monastery Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip Nomad Outpost Savage Lands Seaside Citadel Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip Spirit of Resistance

nuperokaso on W/U Birds

2 years ago

If you end up with spells of only one color, you can replace some basic lands of the other color with Secluded Courtyard and Unclaimed Territory. As an example, now you are playing Ponder as the only colored non-Bird spell in your entire deck. Then you can replace say 2 Plains, since every Bird can be played with Unclaimed Territory anyway, but this fixes opening hand with three Plains and your multi-color Birds. You still want to leave some of them, because of Cartographer's Hawk

Rhadamanthus on How does Secluded Courtyard react …

2 years ago

You're right that the cards only show the front face in the graveyard. However, the problem here is that Disturb isn't an activated ability, but rather it's an alternative casting cost for the back face. When you choose to use Disturb, first you turn the card over and move it to the stack to start the casting process. That means it isn't a creature spell when it's time to pay the costs for casting it, so the mana from Secluded Courtyard's last ability can't be used to pay for it.

702.146. Disturb
702.146a Disturb is an ability found on the front face of some transforming double-faced cards (see rule 712, “Double-Faced Cards”). “Disturb [cost]” means “You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost.” See rule 712.8c.
702.146b A resolving transforming double-faced spell that was cast using its disturb ability enters the battlefield with its back face up.

CloudKillerJay on How does Secluded Courtyard react …

2 years ago

At my recent FNM I was told that I couldn't use Secluded Courtyard to activate the abilities of either Dorothea, Vengeful Victim  ^Flip or Faithbound Judge  ^Flip because I was casting them as enchantments, and not a spirit? I thought dual face cards were always in the graveyard as side A, so it would have been a mana ability of a spirit, regardless that it returns to play as an enchantment?

oconnelljd1 on big daddy dino

2 years ago

Cards to consider cutting:

Volcanic Fallout, Skyshroud Claim, Heaven / Earth, Wayward Swordtooth, Sun-Crowned Hunters, Raging Regisaur, Kinjalli's Caller, Druid of the Anima, Drover of the Mighty, Burning Sun's Avatar, Cacophodon, Star of Extinction

Cards to consider adding:

Kodama's Reach, Regisaur Alpha, Chain Lightning, Blasphemous Act, Carnage Tyrant, Deathgorge Scavenger, Etali, Primal Storm, Annoyed Altisaur, Apex Altisaur, Giant Cindermaw, Harnessed Snubhorn, Sheltered Thicket, Scattered Groves, Sacred Peaks, Kinjalli's Sunwing, Kogla and Yidaro, Quartzwood Crasher, Rampaging Ferocidon, Runic Armasaur, Topiary Stomper, Tyrranax Rex, Wakening Sun's Avatar, Elemental Bond, Taurean Mauler, Unbreakable Formation, Vanquisher's Banner, Coat of Arms, Door of Destinies, Herald's Horn, Path of Ancestry, Pillar of Origins, Pyre of Heroes, Secluded Courtyard, Stoneforge Masterwork, Unclaimed Territory, Vanquisher's Banner
the add section kinda got out of hand, but they are all worth considering