Mines of Moria
Legendary Land
Mines of Moria enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
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, , Exile three cards from your graveyard: Create two Treasure tokens.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $2.23
- EDHREC rank
- #1031
Mines of Moria enters, creates two Goblin tokens, and replaces itself by surveilling — all on a land slot, meaning you're paying zero cards and zero mana for the package. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider makes every bit of this relevant, turning the surveil into an artifact-recovery trigger and the tokens into fodder or pressure.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider cares about surveilling and putting artifacts into the graveyard, so Mines of Moria supplies both a free surveil and two tokens that can die to feed her ability — it's a land that actively advances the engine.
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge rewards legendary permanents with card draw, and Mines of Moria is a legendary land that enters with immediate board presence, slotting cleanly into a deck that wants every legendary permanent to pull its weight.
The Balrog, Durin's Bane
The Balrog, Durin's Bane triggers off Goblins dying or being sacrificed, and Mines of Moria hands you two bodies on arrival — free sacrifice fuel that costs you nothing but a land slot.
Knuckles the Echidna
Knuckles the Echidna benefits from a wide token board to enable his dig-and-ramp ability, and Mines of Moria provides two free attackers while the surveil helps set up what he's looking for.
Vihaan, Goldwaker
Vihaan, Goldwaker turns Treasure tokens into attacking creatures, but Mines of Moria rounds out the token count with Goblins that also swing — a low-cost way to add board density to a deck that already wants creatures tapped sideways.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mines of Moria is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, though it sees essentially no play outside Commander. In Modern and Legacy, a land that enters tapped and produces colorless mana is a real cost against the tempo demands of those formats, and two 1/1 Goblin tokens don't compensate. Commander is where Mines of Moria earns its slot: the singleton format absorbs the enters-tapped penalty, legendary-land synergies are real, and the free surveil plus token generation on a land is genuine card advantage in a 100-card game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.23 cheap tier
At $2.23, Mines of Moria sits at the low end of Commander staples — cheap enough to put in any relevant deck without a second thought. It's a Lord of the Rings set card with persistent Commander demand, so the floor is stable.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
- Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
- The Balrog, Durin's Bane
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Vihaan, Goldwaker
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.