Miren, the Moaning Well
Legendary Land
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Theme Decks
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #8224
Miren, the Moaning Well turns any creature into a life payment you control — sacrificing to gain life on demand is removal insurance, combo fuel, and a political tool all on one land. The cost is a colorless land slot and four mana per activation, which is real, but Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate decks and anything running Outrider en-Kor loops make that price trivial against the upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate accumulates counters by processing colorless creatures, and Miren, the Moaning Well gives the deck a clean sacrifice outlet on a land — no card slot spent, no color requirement, just a repeatable way to cash in tokens or spent bodies while padding your life total to survive long enough to close.
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 |
Commander is where Miren, the Moaning Well earns its keep — sacrifice outlets on lands are rare, and the combination of free inclusion cost (it's just a land) and political life-gain utility makes it a quiet staple in any black or colorless deck that wants a sacrifice engine without spending a card slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; four mana for a life-gain activation competes poorly with the efficiency of those formats, and dedicated sacrifice decks there have far faster options. Modern is the same story — the activation cost is too slow to matter in a format where the game is often decided by turn four. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where it sees occasional play, specifically in life-total-matters or aristocrats signatures where a free land-based outlet is genuinely hard to replace.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card



Daru SpiritualistShaman en-KorMiren, the Moaning Well
Infinite lifegain
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Daru SpiritualistNomads en-KorMiren, the Moaning Well
Infinite lifegain
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Daru SpiritualistOutrider en-KorMiren, the Moaning Well
Infinite lifegain
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Daru SpiritualistWarrior en-KorMiren, the Moaning Well
Infinite lifegain
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Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't currently available for Miren, the Moaning Well, so check Scryfall or your preferred marketplace for the current number. Historically it has floated in the $3–6 range as a lower-demand rare, making it an easy pickup if you're building any aristocrats or sacrifice shell in Commander.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.
