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Drifting Meadow

Land

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Anthologies
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#4638
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Drifting Meadow card art
Drifting Meadow enters tapped, which is the real cost — but in any deck running Escape Protocol, that drawback flips into a trigger you can cash in for a free cycle every turn. Outside of Gavi, Nest Warden and similar cycling engines, it's just a worse Plains.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gavi, Nest Warden

Gavi, Nest Warden

85.3% of decks · synergy 0.84

Gavi, Nest Warden makes the first cycle each turn free, which means Drifting Meadow becomes a land that replaces itself at no mana cost — that's the whole reason it's in 85% of Gavi lists.

02
Brallin, Skyshark RiderShabraz, the Skyshark

Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark

22.2% of decks · synergy 0.20

Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark rewards every cycle with damage triggers and +1/+1 counters, so Drifting Meadow doubles as a repeatable fuel source whenever you have mana to spare.

03
Sharuum the Hegemon

Sharuum the Hegemon

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Sharuum the Hegemon sits in Esper, which shares white with Drifting Meadow, and the cycling synergies from the color pair make it a consistent inclusion in that shell even without a dedicated cycling commander.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Drifting Meadow actually earns a slot — cycling synergy commanders make it a mana-neutral cantrip land, which is a real and exploitable advantage. In Pauper it's legal and sees niche play in cycling-themed builds, though the tapped entry cost is a steeper penalty in a faster format. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but neither format has room for a land that enters tapped and only produces white mana without a dedicated payoff engine to justify it. Drifting Meadow is a Commander card first and everything else a distant second.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Drifting Meadow is pure bulk — you'll find it in a dollar box or pull it from a cycling precon without thinking twice. That price is stable; there's no demand pressure that would move it, and reprints have kept supply high.

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