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Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Eternal Weekend
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#672
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Life from the Loam card art
Life from the Loam returns up to three lands from your graveyard to hand every time you cast it, and dredge 3 means you rarely cast it from hand twice in a row — you just keep milling it back and retrigger the loop. Pair it with a land-drop engine like Azusa, Lost but Seeking and those recurred lands hit the battlefield the same turn, turning a two-mana sorcery into a permanent card-advantage machine. Six-mana investment this is not; it's the greediest two-drop in green.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Six

Six

76.6% of decks · synergy 0.72

Six's discard-matters mechanic turns Life from the Loam into a repeatable fuel source — dredging it back refills the hand with lands to pitch, keeping the discard engine running every single turn.

02
The Gitrog Monster

The Gitrog Monster

70.7% of decks · synergy 0.64

The Gitrog Monster draws a card whenever a land hits the graveyard, so Life from the Loam retrieving three lands and then getting dredged back to mill more lands is effectively an infinite card-draw loop with the right setup.

03
Borborygmos Enraged

Borborygmos Enraged

64.9% of decks · synergy 0.63

Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage for each land discarded, and Life from the Loam cycling lands back from the graveyard to hand gives Borborygmos a repeatable ammunition supply that can close the game from nowhere.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Life from the Loam is a pillar card in any deck that cares about lands, graveyards, or both — the dredge mechanic turns it into a recursive engine that never truly runs out of gas. In Legacy, it anchors dedicated lands decks and pairs with Wasteland to create a lock that opponents cannot easily break out of. Modern sees it in value-oriented land strategies and the occasional dredge-adjacent shell, though the format's speed narrows its role compared to Legacy. Vintage allows it and the raw power is plainly there, though the format's broken card density means it shows up situationally rather than as a staple. Pioneer and Standard have no access to it, and Pauper's common restriction keeps it out — Legacy and Commander remain its natural homes.

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Price Context

Current price

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Precise current pricing isn't available in this data snapshot, but Life from the Loam has historically sat in the $5–$15 range depending on printing, with multiple reprints keeping it accessible relative to its power level. If you play any Commander deck with a lands or graveyard theme, it's worth picking up — its inclusion rate across high-synergy commanders speaks for itself.

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