Haunted Mire
Land — Swamp Forest
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This land enters tapped.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #1198
Haunted Mire enters tapped, so the tempo cost is real — but it produces both black and green mana with no additional condition, making it a clean dual for any Golgari shell. Commanders like Hazel of the Rootbloom and Floral Evoker that care about lands entering or cycling through the graveyard get extra mileage out of it, but even stripped of synergy it's a functional budget fixing land that earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazel of the Rootbloom
Hazel of the Rootbloom copies activated abilities, and Haunted Mire's enter-the-battlefield trigger meshes cleanly with the land-drop density her engine demands — over half of all Hazel decks run it, the highest inclusion rate of any commander here.
Dina, Essence Brewer
Dina, Essence Brewer needs reliable black and green mana to fuel her life-drain loops, and Haunted Mire delivers both colors without any restrictive condition, explaining why 44% of Dina lists slot it as cheap, consistent fixing.
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale operates in Dimir, but the Sultai and four-color variants that splash green lean on Haunted Mire to smooth out the color base without spending budget on fetchlands.
Doran, the Siege Tower
Doran, the Siege Tower is a three-color commander whose Abzan mana base needs every affordable dual it can find, and Haunted Mire covers the Golgari slice of that requirement for well under a dollar.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Haunted Mire does its best work — singleton construction makes every tapped dual meaningful, and Golgari is one of the format's most-played color combinations. In Pauper, it's a legitimate budget fixing option in black-green midrange and graveyard strategies where the tempo loss of entering tapped is acceptable. Modern and Pioneer have access to fetchlands and shock lands that make a strictly tapped dual hard to justify competitively, so Haunted Mire rarely sees play there. Legacy and Vintage don't want tapped lands at any price point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Floral EvokerVeilborn GhoulSquandered ResourcesHaunted Mire
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite self-discard triggers
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Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Haunted Mire sits firmly in bulk territory — it's the kind of land you throw in without thinking twice about the cost. Bulk duals with no additional condition tend to hold this price floor indefinitely, so there's no financial reason to delay picking up copies.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.