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Drownyard Temple

Land

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2019
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#1980
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Drownyard Temple card art
Drownyard Temple does something almost no land does: it returns itself from the graveyard to your hand for three mana, turning every discard, mill, or sacrifice into a renewable resource. Commanders like Zimone, Mystery Unraveler that want to dump lands into the graveyard and replay them will happily pay that cost repeatedly, and Lotus Cobra turns each of those re-entries into a free mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

50.4% of decks · synergy 0.48

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler mills cards and rewards landing multiple land drops per turn, so Drownyard Temple becomes a permanent the graveyard can't hold — it loops back each cycle to fuel Zimone's triggers again.

02
Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Neerdiv, Devious Diver

48.9% of decks · synergy 0.48

Neerdiv, Devious Diver cares about lands entering from unusual zones, and Drownyard Temple supplies that trigger on demand by paying its own buyback cost from the graveyard.

03
Teval, the Balanced Scale

Teval, the Balanced Scale

38.9% of decks · synergy 0.34

Teval, the Balanced Scale rewards both mill and land play, and Drownyard Temple slots into that overlap perfectly — it mills freely and then walks back out of the graveyard to trigger Teval again.

04
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

36.2% of decks · synergy 0.33

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist mills on a schedule, and Drownyard Temple refuses to stay milled — every time Mirko puts it in the yard, it queues up to re-enter and trigger any landfall payoffs in the deck.

05
Anje Falkenrath

Anje Falkenrath

27.9% of decks · synergy 0.27

Anje Falkenrath churns through the hand with discard, and Drownyard Temple is one of the few lands that welcomes being pitched — it comes back the moment you have three mana and a reason to replay it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Drownyard Temple sees virtually no play in competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, where three mana to return a tapped land to hand is far too slow to matter. Pioneer is the same story — the effect doesn't line up with what aggressive or tempo-driven decks need from their land slots. Commander is where Drownyard Temple earns its keep: graveyard synergies, landfall triggers, and discard-loop strategies all give the self-recursion real value, and the single blue pip in the activation cost is easy to meet in nearly any deck that wants it. Oathbreaker follows Commander's logic and the card is equally playable there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Drownyard Temple is pure bulk — a zero-friction pickup that costs less than a sleeve. The price is stable because supply is deep and the card has a narrow but consistent home, so don't expect movement in either direction.

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