Moorland Haunt
Land
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, , Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $1.38
- EDHREC rank
- #8343
Moorland Haunt turns your graveyard into a repeatable token factory — tap it, exile a creature card, get a 1/1 white Spirit with flying. The cost is real: it enters tapped, produces no colored mana, and demands both white mana and a creature in the bin every activation, so it underperforms in decks that don't consistently fill the graveyard. In Millicent, Restless Revenant and similar Spirit-tribal builds, that cost evaporates fast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Millicent, Restless Revenant
Millicent, Restless Revenant triggers off every nontoken Spirit that enters, which means each Moorland Haunt activation is also a Millicent trigger — the land effectively pays for itself in board presence over a long game.
Kangee, Sky Warden
Kangee, Sky Warden cares about flying creatures attacking, and Moorland Haunt generates a steady stream of evasive bodies to keep that count high even after a board wipe.
Errant and Giada
Errant and Giada rewards a high density of flying creatures, and Moorland Haunt provides a colorless land slot that still manufactures flyers on demand without eating a spell slot.
Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Ranar the Ever-Watchful makes a Spirit token whenever you exile cards from hand or graveyard, so Moorland Haunt's exile-a-creature-card activation can trigger Ranar and double the token output.
Ephara, God of the Polis
Ephara, God of the Polis draws a card at your upkeep if a creature entered under your control the previous turn, and Moorland Haunt lets you manufacture that creature entry at instant speed on the end step before your upkeep to keep the draw trigger live.
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 |
In Commander, Moorland Haunt earns its slot in any white-blue deck that expects creatures to die — it converts graveyard chaff into evasive bodies and laughs at sweepers. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but slower, non-mana-producing utility lands rarely compete in formats where tempo is everything; it's theoretically usable in fringe white-blue creature strategies but sees almost no competitive play there. Modern is the most realistic non-Commander home: white-blue tempo or spirits decks could use it as a late-game mana sink, though the tap-in drawback is punishing in a format that prizes turn-one speed. Moorland Haunt is absent from Pioneer and Standard, and pauper legality is off the table, so Commander remains the format where it consistently pulls its weight.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.38 cheap tier
At $1.38, Moorland Haunt sits in the sweet spot of cheap enough to include on a whim but useful enough that the price isn't going anywhere soon. Utility lands with repeatable token generation tend to hold modest value steadily — don't expect it to spike, but don't expect to find it in a bulk bin either.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Millicent, Restless Revenant
- Kangee, Sky Warden
- Errant and Giada
- Ranar the Ever-Watchful
- Ephara, God of the Polis
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.