Mortuary Mire
Land
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2018
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #642
Mortuary Mire enters tapped, but it puts a creature from your graveyard on top of your library — that's a reanimation effect stapled to a land slot, and the tempo cost of one tapped land is usually worth it. Commanders like Nalia de'Arnise that want a specific creature available on demand treat it as a free tutor-to-hand dressed up as a land.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nalia de'Arnise
Nalia de'Arnise needs rogues and creatures with her activated ability in hand consistently, and Mortuary Mire lets her recycle a key creature that got removed without spending a card from hand — it just replaces itself with the land drop.
The Wise Mothman
The Wise Mothman decks run a lot of creatures that need to hit the battlefield repeatedly to spread counters, and Mortuary Mire converts a land drop into a free creature retrieval so the engine never fully stalls after a wrath.
Runo Stromkirk
Runo Stromkirk wants specific sea monsters in the graveyard or on top of the library to trigger his flip condition, and Mortuary Mire quietly sets that up while still contributing a land to the mana base.
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver builds value from zombies dying and returning, and Mortuary Mire slots naturally into that loop by pulling a key zombie back to the top whenever the graveyard fills up.
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire sacrifices permanents and wants to control what hits the battlefield, so Mortuary Mire doubling as a setup piece — putting a creature on top before Vaevictis triggers — is exactly the kind of incidental advantage the deck rewards.
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 Mortuary Mire earns its keep: 99-card singleton means you often have exactly one copy of a critical creature, and a land that retrieves it from the graveyard is worth the enters-tapped penalty in most midrange or graveyard-centric builds. In Pauper it sees occasional play in slow, grindy decks that need to rebuy a creature without spending a spell slot, though the tapped drawback is more punishing in a format where tempo is tighter. Modern and Pioneer have access to far more efficient graveyard retrieval spells, so Mortuary Mire rarely makes the cut there outside of highly specific brews. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem at a higher power ceiling — the land slot is too valuable to spend on a tapped fixer when faster options exist.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Mortuary Mire is bulk by any measure — you're paying next to nothing for a functional graveyard utility land. That price is stable; it has never been a chase card, and widespread Commander inclusion keeps it in print and off any trajectory toward meaningful appreciation.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Nalia de'Arnise
- The Wise Mothman
- Runo Stromkirk
- Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
- Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.