Mulch
Sorcery
Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #4481
Mulch fills your graveyard and guarantees a land in hand for two mana — the card selection is real, not incidental. It's the engine card Winter, Cynical Opportunist decks want most, and it earns a slot anywhere self-mill pays dividends.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
Winter, Cynical Opportunist mills four and keeps every land, which is exactly the volume and consistency Winter, Cynical Opportunist needs to fuel discard-payoff loops — Mulch appears in over 67% of Winter decks for good reason.
Borborygmos Enraged
Borborygmos Enraged wants lands in hand to throw at opponents, and Mulch delivers — it mills four and banks every land it hits, giving Borborygmos Enraged immediate ammunition.
Old Stickfingers
Old Stickfingers scales with the number of creatures in your graveyard, so Mulch's self-mill fuels the commander's power directly while keeping the mana base intact.
Nethroi, Apex of Death
Nethroi, Apex of Death needs creatures in the graveyard to reanimate at scale, and Mulch stocks that pile cheaply while ensuring the lands needed to mutate Nethroi keep flowing.
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 Mulch does its best work — self-mill strategies are endemic to the format, 100-card decks reward consistent land drops, and two mana is a low ask for four cards of selection. In Pauper it sees occasional play in graveyard-centric shells where commons that bin multiple cards are valuable. Modern and Pioneer have faster, more targeted options, so Mulch rarely makes the cut in those formats outside of budget brews. Legacy and Vintage simply have better tools and don't need it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Mulch is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a common box, not budgeting for it. Price stability is a non-issue; it will stay at this tier indefinitely given its reprint history and widespread availability.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Winter, Cynical Opportunist
- Six
- Borborygmos Enraged
- Old Stickfingers
- Nethroi, Apex of Death
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.