Is Polluted Mire good in Commander?

Polluted Mire

Land

This land enters tapped.
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Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC: 0
Mana cost
Color identity: B
Rarity: common
Set: Warhammer 40,000 Commander
Price: —
EDHREC rank: #3959

Polluted Mire enters tapped and produces a single black mana — a real cost — but its cycling ability lets it convert into a fresh card the moment it's no longer needed, which is why it earns a slot in decks that want a land they can sacrifice or bounce repeatedly. Escape Protocol and Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar both turn that cycle trigger into an engine, making this far more than a bad Island.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

35.9% of decks · synergy 0.35

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar requires discarding a Food or land to cast her for free, and Polluted Mire cycles directly into that discard condition while replacing itself — it's both fuel and card advantage in a single land slot.

Imotekh the Stormlord

25.1% of decks · synergy 0.21

Imotekh the Stormlord cares about cycling triggers generating value off repeated activations, and Polluted Mire fits cleanly into that loop as a tapped black source that converts into a draw when you no longer need the mana.

Sharuum the Hegemon

18.9% of decks · synergy 0.18

Sharuum the Hegemon decks lean on artifact recursion in Esper colors, and Polluted Mire offers a low-opportunity-cost black source that can cycle away in the late game rather than sitting as a dead draw.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	not legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Polluted Mire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, or Standard. In Commander it earns its keep specifically in cycling synergy builds and sacrifice-loop shells — outside those contexts, a tapped land that makes one color is below rate. In Pauper the calculus shifts: cycling lands are a known engine piece, and Polluted Mire sees real play there precisely because the format rewards incremental card advantage. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly better black lands at every price point, so it only shows up in dedicated cycling combo lists.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

37 decks