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Riftsweeper

Creature — Elf Shaman

When this creature enters, choose target face-up exiled card. Its owner shuffles it into their library.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.50
EDHREC rank
#10484
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Riftsweeper card art
Riftsweeper puts an exiled card back into an opponent's library — or your own — the moment it enters, making it the cleanest answer to exile-based removal and a critical piece in loops that depend on shuffling cards out of exile. The cost is a 2/2 body that doesn't pressure the board, so you're running it for the triggered ability, not the stats; Myrkul, Lord of Bones and The Beamtown Bullies both exploit that enter-the-battlefield text hard enough to justify the slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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The Beamtown Bullies

The Beamtown Bullies

20.9% of decks · synergy 0.20

The Beamtown Bullies puts creatures into opponents' graveyards via combat, and Riftsweeper closes the loop by shuffling those targets back into libraries — or rescuing key pieces of your own engine from exile — keeping the Bullies' discard-and-recur lines alive through graveyard hate.

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

Riftsweeper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice. In 60-card formats, a 2/2 for two that shuffles one exiled card into a library is too slow and too situational to make competitive cuts — Legacy and Vintage have faster, more reliable answers to exile effects, and Modern rarely needs this effect at all. Commander is where Riftsweeper earns its slot: the format's singleton nature means exile is a hard answer, and any deck running recursive loops or combos through the graveyard wants insurance against Bojuka Bog and Rest in Peace. The ability to target any player's exile zone also opens political and disruption angles that simply don't exist in 1v1 formats.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.50 bulk tier

At $0.50, Riftsweeper is a bulk rare — easy to acquire and an effortless inclusion if the combo or protection angle fits your deck. That price reflects its narrow application rather than low power; decks that want it really want it, but the pool of decks that need it is small enough to keep demand modest.

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