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Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
Price
$11.82
EDHREC rank
#241
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Takenuma, Abandoned Mire card art
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire is a swamp that converts into a repeatable legend-recur effect — you run it because it's never a dead draw and the channel ability refunds the card you spent to activate it. The channel cost scales with your legendary count, which makes it stronger the later the game goes, but even in lean boards it typically mills three and returns a legend for four mana. Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge and Circle of the Land Druid decks both want it for the same reason: it's a land slot that fights for resources.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

56.3% of decks · synergy 0.49

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge draws a card whenever you play a legendary permanent, so channeling Takenuma, Abandoned Mire to recur a legend sets off that trigger the moment the recovered card hits the battlefield — it's card advantage on top of card advantage. Over half of Shanid decks include it, and that inclusion rate is earned.

02
Kethis, the Hidden Hand

Kethis, the Hidden Hand

53.2% of decks · synergy 0.42

Kethis, the Hidden Hand lets you cast legendaries from your graveyard by exiling other legends, which creates a feedback loop with Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: channel to recur a legend, cast it through Kethis, exile it to fuel the next activation. The two cards essentially recycle each other's resources.

03
Reyhan, Last of the AbzanYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

46.1% of decks · synergy 0.35

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful cares about legendaries entering and leaving the battlefield, so Takenuma, Abandoned Mire provides a controlled way to return key legends that have died and trigger Yoshimaru's counter-growth again. It doubles as a recovery piece when your commanders get removed.

04
Dihada, Binder of Wills

Dihada, Binder of Wills

36.5% of decks · synergy 0.29

Dihada, Binder of Wills tutors for legendary permanents and wants a dense legendary base to protect herself with vigilance and lifelink — Takenuma, Abandoned Mire gives that shell a land that can recover any legend she's lost without spending a spell slot. Nearly a third of all Dihada decks run it.

05
The Necrobloom

The Necrobloom

34.7% of decks · synergy 0.24

The Necrobloom cares about lands entering the graveyard and triggering zombie production, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire feeds that plan by being a land you willingly spend — the channel discards it from hand, not from the battlefield, so it won't directly trigger landfall-from-graveyard effects, but it frees up other slots for the engine pieces that do.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Takenuma, Abandoned Mire does its best work — the 100-card singleton format makes land-that-does-something cards disproportionately powerful because they never compete with spells for a deck slot. The channel ability rewards legendary-heavy builds specifically, and Commander is the format most likely to run ten or more legends by design. In competitive Commander it functions as a low-priority but reliable recovery piece; in the battlecruiser bracket it can single-handedly recur a blown-up commander. In Modern and Legacy it's legal but largely absent because non-basic black lands with a three-plus mana activation cost can't compete with the tempo demands of those formats — there's no legendary density to make the channel meaningful, and tapping for black only is a real concession. Pioneer sees essentially the same story. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire is a Commander card wearing format legality as a technicality.

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

The honest answer is that nothing cheap replicates what Takenuma, Abandoned Mire does — being a land is the whole point, and most graveyard-recursion effects at low prices cost a spell slot. Witch's Cottage gets closest: it's a free land that returns a creature from your graveyard to the top of your library, costs nothing, and is well under a dollar, though it only hits creatures and the condition (three other Swamps) limits it in non-mono-black builds. If you need the legendary-specific angle, Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire does the same trick in white for legendaries with a channel that deals damage instead — it's cheap and proves the design is sound, but it won't slot into a mono-black or Golgari shell.

Price Context

Current price

$11.82 mid tier

At $11.82, Takenuma, Abandoned Mire sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate pickup, affordable enough that it belongs in most legendary-matters lists without much deliberation. It's a card with a clear, permanent role in the format, so the price reflects sustained demand rather than spike activity.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.