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Haunt of the Dead Marshes

Creature — Nightmare Elf

When this creature enters, scry 1.
{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#9264
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Haunt of the Dead Marshes card art
Haunt of the Dead Marshes enters as a 3/3 that creates a tapped, colorless Construct artifact creature token — immediate board presence and a sacrifice fodder piece in one card. The payoff is real, but it costs five mana with a black pip, so it wants a deck built around sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar or a commander like Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist who turns the token into raw resources the moment it hits the battlefield.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

58.8% of decks · synergy 0.58

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist is the natural home — she creates Constructs herself and cares about sacrificing them, so Haunt of the Dead Marshes doubles her token count while feeding her engine directly.

02
Umbris, Fear Manifest

Umbris, Fear Manifest

13.9% of decks · synergy 0.13

Haunt of the Dead Marshes is a Nightmare, and Umbris, Fear Manifest grows on each opponent's exile trigger, so the Construct token pairs with Umbris as both a threat body and a sacrifice piece that keeps the exile engine churning.

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

Haunt of the Dead Marshes is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Commander, it earns its slot in sacrifice-focused decks — five mana for two bodies is a reasonable rate when your commander converts tokens into card advantage or mana. In Pauper, a five-mana two-body artifact creature is playable in the right shell, though it competes with cheaper options in that format's aggressive curve. In Legacy and Vintage, Haunt of the Dead Marshes is simply too slow and low-impact to see meaningful play.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Haunt of the Dead Marshes is deep bulk — pick it out of any dollar bin or grab a playset without thinking about it. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely climb unless a new commander pushes them into broad demand, so treat this as a spec-proof throw-in rather than a hold.

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