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Barren Moor

Land

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

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Historic Anthology 2
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#963
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Barren Moor card art
Barren Moor enters tapped, which is the entire cost — in exchange, you get a land that replaces itself on demand, smoothing draws without burning a spell slot. Decks that abuse the graveyard or loop lands, most famously those built around Life from the Loam, treat the drawback as irrelevant; Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar lists clock in at 72% inclusion precisely because cycling feeds discard-matters engines at zero extra mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

03
Anje Falkenrath

Anje Falkenrath

43.5% of decks · synergy 0.39

Anje Falkenrath untaps whenever you cycle a card, and Barren Moor is a cycling land — meaning it fuels the untap engine while still counting as a land in your deck.

04
The Gitrog Monster

The Gitrog Monster

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.35

The Gitrog Monster draws a card whenever a land hits the graveyard, so Barren Moor can cycle into the bin and immediately replace itself twice over — once from the cycling trigger and once from Gitrog.

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

Commander is where Barren Moor earns its keep: the singleton format rewards self-replacing lands heavily, and the slower pace makes entering tapped a manageable tax. In Pauper it sees real play as cheap card selection in cycling-matters shells, where common-legal tools make the engine competitive. Legacy and Vintage allow it but rarely need it — those formats move too fast for a tapped land that only replaces itself, and fetchlands do the filtering better. Pioneer and Standard don't apply.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Barren Moor has been reprinted often enough that copies are easy to find at bulk prices — typically under a dollar for most printings. It's a safe pickup at any price point; there's no version of this card that represents a meaningful expense.

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