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Dismal Backwater DFT 0254 · common

Dismal Backwater · Land · This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. · The doomed souls of the Speed Demons race in uneasy unity, each one hoping to escape their own fate.

Price: from $0.181 printing
Win rate: 55.3% GIH 48,215 instances · Premier Draft
Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025 · 17Lands
Found in: MTGO Redemption →

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 26,680 wins in 48,215 card-in-hand instances.

46,072 distinct games · 16,153 distinct drafts · games recorded Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025.

17Lands file dated Mar 23, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

55.3%when drawn (GIH)

+0.4 pp vs 54.9% average · 48,215 instances

Premier Draft · Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025 · average from 857,667 games

Land · compared with other lands below · last seen around pick 6.1 on average (149,806 packs).

7 of 29 land cards.

Taken at pick8.528,836 picks

Makes the deck60.6%28,836 picks with known usage

When played54.5%91,349.4 matchesBenched 55.8%
51,901.6 matches

When drawn55.3%48,215 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 56.2% · 20,292 instances
● Drawn later 54.7% · 27,923 instances

In hand 55.3% · 48,215 instances
Unseen in deck 53.6% · 61,895 instances
+1.7 percentage points when drawn

Compared with land cards

Win rate when drawn55.3%48,215 instances7 of 29

Opening hand56.2%20,292 instances9 of 29

Drawn later54.7%27,923 instances9 of 29

In the deck54.4%110,564 instances16 of 29

Without seeing it53.6%61,895 instances22 of 29

Improvement when drawn+1.7 pp48,215 instances / 61,895 instances2 of 29

When benched55.8%51,901.6 matches6 of 29

Makes the deck60.6%28,836 picks with known usage5 of 29

Pick (last seen)6.1149,806 packs11 of 29

Taken at8.528,836 picks10 of 29

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Artifact Bleeder UB56.7%11,246 instances

Graveyard BG67.6%37 instances · under 100 Artifact Value WU56.5%23 instances · under 100 Discard Aggro UR52.4%21 instances · under 100 Exhaust Ramp UG44.7%38 instances · under 100 Max Speed Aggro BR30.0%10 instances · under 100 Max Speed Attrition WB0.0%3 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (55.3% · 48,215 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Card partners need a verified analysis of this format’s public game file.

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

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Regular printing

DFT 0254

$0.18 · foil $0.22

Prices

DFT 0254 · Regular printingListings ↗

Finish	Found in	Price
Nonfoil	Play Booster · MTGO Redemption	$0.18
Foil	Play Booster	$0.22

How to get it

A fixed card in MTGO Redemption. It is not a booster pull, so no chance is claimed.

Wizards · Collecting Aetherdrift ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in: Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration: Wayne Wu, DFT 254 · Scryfall ↗
More like this: Regular printing printings →
Sources: Wizards · Collecting Aetherdrift · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
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