diff --git a/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift b/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift
index 1fa792a..4438013 100644
--- a/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift
+++ b/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ struct CardFaceView: View, Equatable {
         )
         .background(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: cornerRadius).fill(.background.secondary))
         .overlay(alignment: .leading) { accentStripe }
+        .dragReplicaShadow()
     }
 
     // MARK: - Context menus
diff --git a/Kanban/UI/Board/DragShadow.swift b/Kanban/UI/Board/DragShadow.swift
index 1dec9e0..0aaeb7e 100644
--- a/Kanban/UI/Board/DragShadow.swift
+++ b/Kanban/UI/Board/DragShadow.swift
@@ -78,3 +78,23 @@ struct DragCountBadge: View {
         }
     }
 }
+
+/// The pickup lift's shadow figures — 03-board-ui.md § Motion's "the pickup lift (scale + shadow as
+/// it detaches from the card)": the system drag session supplies the scale and the tracking, but
+/// paints no shadow onto its preview image, so the shadow can only come from the replica view
+/// itself. Values are the pathfinder's own constant ambient shadow, reused verbatim rather than
+/// re-derived (`~/Documents/indie/Kanban` CardView.swift:623) — its drags read subtly raised, and
+/// that read is the point.
+enum DragReplicaStyle {
+    static let shadowColor = Color.black.opacity(0.16)
+    static let shadowRadius: CGFloat = 2.5
+    static let shadowY: CGFloat = 1.5
+}
+
+extension View {
+    /// The pickup lift's shadow (`DragReplicaStyle`), for a drag replica's face — shared by the
+    /// card, lane, and trashed-lane replicas so the figures are spelled once.
+    func dragReplicaShadow() -> some View {
+        shadow(color: DragReplicaStyle.shadowColor, radius: DragReplicaStyle.shadowRadius, y: DragReplicaStyle.shadowY)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift b/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift
index dd316e6..72c8ecb 100644
--- a/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift
+++ b/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ struct LaneView: View, Equatable {
         .frame(width: replicaWidth, height: replicaHeight, alignment: .topLeading)
         .background(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: cornerRadius).fill(.background))
         .clipShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: cornerRadius))
+        .dragReplicaShadow()
     }
 
     /// The replica's size — **the lane's own**, floored for a lane that has not measured itself yet
diff --git a/Kanban/UI/Board/TrashLaneRowView.swift b/Kanban/UI/Board/TrashLaneRowView.swift
index 467a09c..c97a5e4 100644
--- a/Kanban/UI/Board/TrashLaneRowView.swift
+++ b/Kanban/UI/Board/TrashLaneRowView.swift
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ struct TrashLaneRowView: View {
             alignment: .leading
         )
         .background(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: cornerRadius).fill(.background.tertiary))
+        .dragReplicaShadow()
     }
 
     // MARK: - The row's two rows of menu