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Live Play Data

Mortuary Mire

Land · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
3%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
639
Decks Running
346
Median Cast Turn
5.5
Drawn → Played
72%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

3% of tracked Commander decks run Mortuary Mire, and when it's drawn, 72% of those copies are played before the game ends, with a median first-cast turn of 5.5.

Mortuary Mire is a free utility land that earns its slot in black decks by doing two jobs at once: it taps for {B} and staples a graveyard-to-library effect onto the land drop itself. 3% of tracked Commander decks include it, spread across 346 distinct lists in the Playgroup Live dataset.

The draw-to-play rate sits at 72%, meaning the large majority of copies that reach a player's hand get played. That figure is neutral on intent: some portion of unplayed copies reflects games ending before the land could be dropped, not deliberate holds. Median first-cast turn is 5.5, which is later than a pure mana land would typically land. That makes sense structurally: players often save the Mire for a turn when a valuable creature is already in the graveyard, squeezing both effects out of a single land drop.

Concentration is healthy. 310 distinct players have brought Mortuary Mire to a tracked game, and no single player accounts for more than a small fraction of instances, giving the dataset reasonable breadth across the black-deck population.

At a glance
  • 3% of tracked Commander decks include Mortuary Mire
  • 72% of drawn copies are played before the game ends
  • T5.5 median first-cast turn, reflecting deliberate timing around graveyard setup
  • 93% battlefield stickiness once the land enters play
  • 310 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game

First-cast turn

n=108
6%
T1
4%
T2
11%
T3
12%
T4
17%
T5
44%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11
Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

642 brought · 310 players
Brought to game
642
Ever drawn
151
Reached battlefield
108
Still on board at game end
100
72%

Of 642 Mortuary Mires brought to games, 151 were drawn, 108 of those were played, and the land held its position on the battlefield through the end of the vast majority of those games.

≥ -7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=101) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=397).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=38) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -7.3pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

179 instances
4.5%
Library
55.9%
Battlefield
17.9%
Graveyard
3.9%
Exile

Mortuary Mire lands on the battlefield and stays there: lands rarely move once in play, so the battlefield zone dominates its final zone chart. The graveyard slice reflects games where the Mire was discarded or milled before it could be played.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The Wise Mothman holds the top spot by a clear margin, but the list spans mono-black, Dimir, Rakdos, and Orzhov commanders. That spread signals the card is a utility include across archetypes rather than a build-around specific to one strategy.

Card text
Mortuary Mire card

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. {T}: Add {B}.
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Common · Illustrated by James Paick

Frequently Asked

How often is Mortuary Mire drawn in a Commander game?
Across 630 tracked games where Mortuary Mire was in the deck, it was drawn 24% of the time. That's consistent with what you'd expect from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 151 copies that reached a hand, 72% were played before the game concluded.
What turn does Mortuary Mire typically enter the battlefield?
Median first-cast turn is 5.5, with a spread from as early as turn 1 (likely a kept opening hand with ramp) to turn 11 in the longest games. The mode sits at turn 5, which suggests players are frequently waiting for a creature to hit the graveyard before dropping it, rather than leading with it as a pure mana source early on.
Does casting Mortuary Mire actually improve win rate?
The cast-vs-library win rate delta is effectively flat at this sample size. Games where the card was cast showed a win rate of 21% across 101 participations, while games where it stayed in the library showed 20% across 397. That difference is within noise for a dataset this size. The honest read: no meaningful win-rate signal either way yet. What we can say is that the card is not dragging down win rates.
Is Mortuary Mire legal in Commander?
Yes. Mortuary Mire is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage. It is not legal in Standard, Alchemy, Historic, Brawl, or Timeless. Its black color identity restricts it to decks with black in their commander's color identity.
Which commanders most often run Mortuary Mire?
The Wise Mothman leads by a wide margin among tracked decks, followed by Wilhelt the Rotcleaver and a cluster of mono-black and black-heavy commanders. The spread across graveyard, zombie, and black-value archetypes confirms the card fits any strategy that expects creatures to cycle through the graveyard regularly, not just dedicated reanimator builds.
Why would a player choose Mortuary Mire over a basic Swamp?
The enters-tapped cost is real, but Mortuary Mire pays it back by converting a land drop into a graveyard recovery effect at no additional mana. In a deck that already plans to have creatures die, the opportunity cost is a single turn of tempo for potentially rebuy on a key threat or combo piece. It's a niche role player, which is exactly why inclusion sits at 3% rather than near 100%.