Lake of the Dead
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
T: Add .
T, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add .
Combos with Lake of the Dead
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.
- Stone-Seeder Hierophant Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Drownyard Temple Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite landfall triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2004-10-04
You have to sacrifice a swamp before this card is put onto the battlefield. And you have to do this no matter how it is put onto the battlefield.
- 2004-10-04
The tap and sacrifice counts as tapping the land for mana.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Lake of the Dead, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
Every version of Lake of the Dead
1 printing, 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.
Alliances
- Normal
- $123.62
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lake of the Dead — 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.
