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Land
LegalCard DrawRank #811
: Add KeywordsCycling
Why is this card good?
Forgotten Cave is a "cycling land" — a tapped Mountain that you can cash in for a card later when you've hit your land drops. That flexibility is its entire appeal: it mitigates flood without truly costing you a deck slot, since early it's a land and late it's a cantrip.
The downside is real, though. Entering tapped matters in a fast format, and in mono-red especially, tempo is often your only edge. The cycling cost competes with actually casting spells.
Where it shines:
- Mono-red and red-heavy decks that flood easily and want consistency, like Krenko, Torbran, or any midrange build.
- Reanimator/graveyard-adjacent red decks that want to discard things, where cycling fuels the bin.
Skip it in fast aggro or combo decks where every tapped land delays your clock, and in decks running tons of nonbasic synergies (fetches, dual fixing) where a colorless-fixing slot is wasted. It's a smooth, low-risk include — rarely exciting, rarely wrong.
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Tranquil Thicket
Green cycling land in the same Onslaught cycle.
Secluded Steppe
White cycling land, identical role and design.
Lonely Sandbar
Blue cycling land, same enters-tapped cycling function.
Barren Moor
Black cycling land in the same Onslaught cycle.
Smoldering Crater
Red cycling land producing red mana with cycling.
Drifting Meadow
Cycling land variant offering card filtering.
Desert of the Fervent
Red cycling land entering tapped, modern equivalent.
Geier Reach Sanitarium
Colorless land offering repeatable card filtering like cycling.
Printings (26)
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Played by these commanders
Anje Falkenrath100% of 1
Lord Windgrace100% of 1
Daretti, Scrap Savant100% of 2
Osgir, the Reconstructor100% of 1
Abaddon the Despoiler100% of 2
Zaffai, Thunder Conductor100% of 1
Marath, Will of the Wild100% of 1
Kaalia of the Vast100% of 2
Bello, Bard of the Brambles100% of 1
Disa the Restless100% of 2
Combos (6)
- Borborygmos Enraged + Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Forgotten Cave
→ Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite damage, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
- Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Seismic Assault + Forgotten Cave
→ Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite damage, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
- Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Ayula's Influence + Forgotten Cave
→ Near-infinite magecraft triggers, Near-infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite storm count
- Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Land's Edge + Forgotten Cave
→ Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite damage, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
- Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Skirge Familiar + Forgotten Cave
→ Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite colored mana, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
- Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Mind Over Matter + Forgotten Cave
→ Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite magecraft triggers, Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce