Magic: The Gathering

Mortuary Mire

Battle for Zendikar 240 • common

Set: Battle for Zendikar
Collector number: 240
Rarity: Common
Type: Land
Colors: Colorless
Artist: James Paick
Market price: $0.40

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$0.40market price via TCGplayer · Aug 19, 2026$0.31 – $0.40 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

This card serves as a functional utility land that allows players to return a creature from their graveyard to their hand, providing a valuable way to recover lost resources during a match. Its inclusion in this specific set grounds it as a piece of the world’s landscape, where its common rarity makes it an accessible tool for building reliable deck strategies.

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What it does

This land enters tapped.

When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

tap: Add black mana.

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperLegal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

Mortuary Mire was released as part of the 2015 Magic: The Gathering set Battle for Zendikar. The set marked a return to the plane of Zendikar, a world defined by its volatile landscapes and the ongoing struggle against the planar-devouring Eldrazi. Mechanically, the card was designed to support the set's graveyard-recursion themes, allowing players to retrieve a creature from their graveyard to the top of their library, emphasizing the plane's history of death and resurgence.

The artwork for the card was created by James Paick, a concept artist known for his contribution to numerous fantasy worlds. Paick utilized a muted, swampy color palette to capture the grim atmosphere of the Mire, focusing on the twisted, organic structures of the environment to evoke a sense of decay and isolation. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional utility land, prized by players for its efficiency in limited formats rather than for widespread competitive dominance.

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