Conduit Pylons
Land — Desert
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Add 
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, : Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #1951
Conduit Pylons enters tapped, produces any color, and puts a land from your graveyard back on top of your library — that recursion loop is the entire reason it exists. In Yuma, Proud Protector builds, that triggered ability translates directly into more Desert triggers and more tokens, making it a functional engine piece despite the tempo cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yuma, Proud Protector
Yuma, Proud Protector cares about Deserts going to the graveyard, and Conduit Pylons feeds that loop by recurring lands to the top of your library so you can cycle them through the bin again — 92% of Yuma decks run it for exactly this reason.
The Capitoline Triad
The Capitoline Triad generates value from lands entering and leaving zones, and Conduit Pylons slots in as a utility Desert that keeps land recursion active across the mid-game.
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist mills cards and wants a stocked graveyard, and Conduit Pylons offers a consistent way to move lands out of the bin and back into play rotation without losing card equity.
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods triggers off lands entering the graveyard, and Conduit Pylons creates a soft loop — recurring a land to the top means drawing and replaying it, netting additional Lumra triggers over several turns.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Conduit Pylons is legal across every major format but sees virtually no competitive play outside Commander — the enter-tapped clause and modest fixing effect don't meet the bar for Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where you need untapped mana sources on curve. In Standard and Pioneer it's a niche Desert for synergy decks, not a staple. Commander is its home: the singleton format rewards narrow-but-deep synergies, Desert tribal decks are a real archetype, and the land-recursion trigger generates genuine card advantage over a long game in ways that simply don't matter in 20-life formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Conduit Pylons is bulk — buy the full playset for under a dollar without thinking about it. Bulk Desert utility cards don't spike unless a new commander pushes the archetype hard, so don't expect movement, but there's also no reason to hesitate at this price.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Yuma, Proud Protector
- Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
- The Capitoline Triad
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
- Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.