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Secluded Steppe

Land

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

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Commander 2018
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#1369
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Secluded Steppe card art
Secluded Steppe is a white land slot that replaces itself — the cycling means it's never a dead draw late, which is reason enough to run it over a basic Plains in almost any white deck. The cost is entering tapped, but engines like Life from the Loam that want lands in the graveyard, or commanders like Gavi, Nest Warden that care about cycling triggers, turn that "downside" into a feature.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gavi, Nest Warden

Gavi, Nest Warden

89.3% of decks · synergy 0.85

Gavi, Nest Warden lets you cycle Secluded Steppe for free once per turn, generating a 2/2 token while filtering toward your real payoffs — it's a near-universal include in that deck at 89% inclusion.

02
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard

Neyali, Suns' Vanguard

40.8% of decks · synergy 0.36

Neyali, Suns' Vanguard cares about casting spells from exile, and Secluded Steppe's cycling trigger keeps the hand moving without eating a card slot that could be a threat.

04
Brallin, Skyshark RiderShabraz, the Skyshark

Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark

35.2% of decks · synergy 0.31

Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark scales on cards drawn and discarded, so Secluded Steppe's cycling trigger directly pumps both partners while thinning the deck.

05
Wyleth, Soul of Steel

Wyleth, Soul of Steel

27.6% of decks · synergy 0.23

Wyleth, Soul of Steel draws on combat damage, and Secluded Steppe earns its slot simply by never being a dead card — a tapped land that replaces itself is about as low-variance as white gets in a deck that needs to hit its land drops and move on.

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

Secluded Steppe is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and it earns its place most in Commander, where the singleton rule makes consistency expensive and a land that cycles is a soft form of card advantage in a 99-card deck. In Pauper it sees play in white cycling shells and any deck running Life from the Loam recursion loops, where the common-rarity cycling land is a functional necessity. Legacy and Vintage have access to far better cantrip lands and fetchlands, so Secluded Steppe is a fringe tool there rather than a staple. It's not legal in Pioneer or Standard, but it doesn't need to be — Commander is its home, and 89% inclusion in Gavi, Nest Warden alone says everything about how valued it is in the right shell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Secluded Steppe is bulk — you'll find it in any common box or draft chaff pile with no hunting required. It's been reprinted often enough that the price ceiling is effectively zero, so there's no value argument for or against picking it up, just a straightforward "add it to every white deck that can use the cycle."

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