Bloodstained Mire
Land
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #42
Bloodstained Mire is a fetch land that fixes your mana, thins your deck, and enables graveyard synergies — it belongs in every black-red deck and most black or red decks running a third color. The one real trade-off is the 1 life per fetch, which matters in specific life-total-matters builds like Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver or alongside Kodama of the East Tree engines that chain multiple land drops per turn — pay attention to your life total in those games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | banned |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bloodstained Mire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but banned in Pioneer, where the fetch-into-dual mana consistency was deemed too powerful at the format's lower power ceiling. In Legacy and Vintage, it's a staple for the same reason it is in Commander — free deck thinning, dual land access, and graveyard enablement all on one card. Commander gives it an easy pass: the singleton rule means you can only run one, the 40-life total makes the 1-life cost nearly irrelevant, and the format's slower average pace means you're rarely punished for entering the battlefield tapped on turn one.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Combos featuring Kodama of the East Tree + Ghost Town + Tireless Provisioner
Bloodstained Mire entering the battlefield triggers Kodama of the East Tree, letting you put a second land directly onto the battlefield — that's two land drops off one fetch, which can jumpstart the Ghost Town loop a full turn earlier than a basic would.
Combos featuring Kodama of the East Tree + Ghost Town + Scute Swarm
Fetching with Bloodstained Mire triggers Kodama of the East Tree and puts another land onto the battlefield, which is itself another land drop — each of those counts toward the six-land threshold that turns Scute Swarm's tokens exponential, so a single fetch early can matter at exactly the right moment.
Big-mana shells like Vivi Ornitier
Vivi Ornitier decks lean on hitting land drops cleanly in the early turns to fuel their artifact and spell synergies, and Bloodstained Mire does double duty — it grabs the exact color you need while keeping the library tighter for future draws.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card




Kodama of the East TreeGhost TownTireless ProvisionerBloodstained Mire
Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite Food tokens
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Kodama of the East TreeGhost TownBloodstained MireScute Swarm
Infinite ETB; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers
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Kodama of the East TreeGhost TownBloodstained MireOmnath, Locus of Rage
Infinite ETB; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers
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Kodama of the East TreeGhost TownBloodstained MireField of the Dead
Infinite ETB; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers
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Kodama of the East TreeGhost TownTireless TrackerBloodstained Mire
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite Clue tokens
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Current price
unknown tier
Bloodstained Mire has historically sat in the $15–$30 range depending on printing, with reprints in premium products occasionally pushing the price down temporarily. Check current listings before buying — multiple printings exist at different price points, and the cheapest version plays identically to the most expensive one.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kodama of the East Tree
- Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver
- Scute Swarm
- Vivi Ornitier
- Ghost Town
- Tireless Provisioner
- Omnath, Locus of Rage
- Field of the Dead
- Tireless Tracker
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.