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Lonely Sandbar

Land

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

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Onslaught
Price
$0.32
EDHREC rank
#1119
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Lonely Sandbar card art
Lonely Sandbar enters tapped and produces a single blue mana — the cost is real — but the ability to cycle it for one blue means it replaces itself and never sits dead in hand. In discard-matters and cycling builds like Borborygmos Enraged or Gavi, Nest Warden, that's not a land slot; it's a spell that happens to tap for mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gavi, Nest Warden

Gavi, Nest Warden

90.3% of decks · synergy 0.86

Gavi, Nest Warden makes the first cycle each turn free, so Lonely Sandbar becomes a zero-cost cantrip that still counts as a land drop — it's essentially free card selection stapled to your mana base.

02
Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

58.0% of decks · synergy 0.52

Captain Howler, Sea Scourge rewards every cycling activation with incremental value, and Lonely Sandbar is one of the cheapest, most reliable ways to trigger that engine without sacrificing a real land slot.

03
Galadriel, Elven-Queen

Galadriel, Elven-Queen

54.2% of decks · synergy 0.50

Galadriel, Elven-Queen cares about drawing cards and seeing lots of them, and Lonely Sandbar provides a low-friction cycle that feeds her triggers while keeping the mana base functional.

04
Rielle, the Everwise

Rielle, the Everwise

44.0% of decks · synergy 0.38

Rielle, the Everwise grows every time you discard, and cycling Lonely Sandbar is a discard that draws — so it simultaneously fuels her power boost and replaces itself in hand.

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 Lonely Sandbar earns its slot: singleton rules make every cycling land a legitimate safety valve against mana-flood or color-screw, and the prevalence of cycling, discard-matters, and landfall commanders gives it real upside beyond raw fixing. In Pauper it sees fringe play in blue control shells that want to smooth draws without spending a card, though dedicated cantrips usually outpace it there. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes but irrelevant ones — the format speed is too high for a tapped land with a narrow cycling payoff. Lonely Sandbar is a Commander card first and last.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.32 bulk tier

At $0.32, Lonely Sandbar sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire from any binder or bulk bin. The price is stable; it's been widely printed and demand is steady but never spikey, so there's no urgency to stock up and no risk of paying above market.

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