Bloodstained Mire

Land

{T}, 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
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Bloodstained Mire card art
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

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer banned
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

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

02

Combos featuring Kodama of the East Tree + Ghost Town + Scute Swarm

300 decks running this combo

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.

03

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

Price Context

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