The Mouth of Sauron LTR 0216 · uncommon
The Mouth of Sauron · {3}{U}{B} · Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · When The Mouth of Sauron enters, target player mills three cards. Then amass Orcs X, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in that player's graveyard. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.) · Power / toughness: 3/4
- Price
- from $0.142 printings
- Win rate
- 60.0% GIH 52,956 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickDefense before the expensive reward
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 31,765 wins in 52,956 card-in-hand instances.
48,503 distinct games · 15,135 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023.
17Lands file dated Aug 30, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Trade resources and block early, then win with a growing Army and evasive Ring-bearers. The Mouth of Sauron mills the opponent and turns their graveyard of instants and sorceries into a larger Army.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Defense before the expensive reward.
- What to take next
- Trade resources and block early, then win with a growing Army and evasive Ring-bearers. The Mouth of Sauron mills the opponent and turns their graveyard of instants and sorceries into a larger Army.
- Wrong pick
- Milling a few cards is usually setup, not a plan to empty their entire library.
- Mana & splash
- Usually play both colors for a synergy reward. Splash only if it works with your existing cards and you already have reliable fixing.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Milling a few cards is usually setup, not a plan to empty their entire library.
Draft data
+4.4 pp vs 55.6% average · 52,956 instances
Premier Draft · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · average from 980,485 games
#39 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.5 on average (71,271 packs).
11 of 45 multicolor cards · 5 of 20 multicolor uncommon cards.
29,836.4 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 55.8% · 17,880 instances
● Drawn later 62.1% · 35,076 instances
In hand 60.0% · 52,956 instances
Unseen in deck 52.1% · 57,448 instances
+7.9 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
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
Blue–Black UB62.9%21,609 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (60.0% · 52,956 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Lash of the Balrog+2.5 pp29,599 games with both in the deck · 8,079 both drawnHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 85% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | draft · set · Commander Deck The Hosts of Mordor | $0.14 |
| Foil | draft · set · Collector Booster | $0.32 |
Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 1,075 packs (0.09%) · 3.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.35%) · 70.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 358 packs (0.28%) · 8.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 24 packs (4.13%) · 71.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 39 packs (2.53%) · 26.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft Booster | Common or foil | 33% | Main set and booster-fun foils |
| Draft Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Draft and Set Booster uncommon printings |
| Set Booster | Ten other Magic cards | 100% | Other Draft and Set Booster printings |
| Set Booster | Guaranteed traditional foil | 100% | Main set and booster-fun foils |
| Collector Booster | Foil uncommons | 100% per position | Foil uncommons other than Nazgûl |
Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR ↗ · Sep 22, 2023
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Historic · Timeless · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Alex Brock, LTR 216 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Blue–Black cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Mark Rosewater · Crafting the Ring, Part 2 · Jun 5, 2023
Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR · Sep 22, 2023
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗