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Hit the Mother Lode

Sorcery MV 7

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What it does

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Combos with Hit the Mother Lode

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Mortuary Skullwinder Amulet of Vigor Blasting Station Infinite
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Eternal Witness Amulet of Vigor Blasting Station Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite damage
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Ashnod's Altar Amulet of Vigor Warden of the Eye Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Skullwinder Amulet of Vigor Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite Treasure tokens
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Skullwinder Amulet of Vigor Viscera Seer Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Infinite storm count
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Skullwinder Amulet of Vigor Carrion Feeder Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Skullwinder Amulet of Vigor Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite Treasure tokens
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Skullwinder Amulet of Vigor Goblin Bombardment Infinite
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Target opponent returns all cards in their graveyard to their hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-11-10

    Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.

  • 2023-11-10

    When you discover, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether you cast the exiled card or put it into your hand.

  • 2023-11-10

    If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.

  • 2023-11-10

    If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.

  • 2023-11-10

    You won't create any Treasure tokens until you finish discovering. For example, if the card you discover has "As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact," you can't sacrifice one of the Treasures from Hit the Mother Lode to pay that additional cost.

  • 2023-11-10

    If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.

  • 2023-11-10

    If the discovered card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • 2023-11-10

    A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.

  • 2023-11-10

    You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.

  • 2023-11-10

    The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Hit the Mother Lode, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 6
Win rate 66.7%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Eshki 1 6 66.7%
Sami, Wildcat Captain 1 0 —
Thor, God of Thunder 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Red 1 deck
  • Boros 1 deck

Every version of Hit the Mother Lode

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Hit the Mother Lode — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.