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Mourner's Surprise OTJ 0094 · common

Mourner's Surprise · {1}{B} · Sorcery · Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "{T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery." · "Y'all should've known better than to buy me a coffin!"

Mourner's Surprise · {1}{B} · Sorcery · Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "{T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery." · "Y'all should've known better than to buy me a coffin!"

Price
from $0.161 printing
Win rate
56.1% GIH 110,330 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 61,912 wins in 110,330 card-in-hand instances.

102,729 distinct games · 35,874 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 16–May 27, 2024.

17Lands file dated May 30, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

56.1%when drawn (GIH)

+2.0 pp vs 54.1% average · 110,330 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · average from 1,172,393 games

#115 of 347 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.9 on average (350,145 packs).

19 of 49 black cards · 6 of 15 black common cards.

Taken at pick8.165,781 picks
Makes the deck63.5%65,781 picks with known usage
When played54.8%225,136.8 matchesBenched 54.3%
111,698.2 matches
When drawn56.1%110,330 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 16–May 27, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 52.7% · 42,688 instances
● Drawn later 58.3% · 67,642 instances

In hand 56.1% · 110,330 instances
Unseen in deck 53.7% · 154,145 instances
+2.4 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn56.1%110,330 instances19 of 49
Opening hand52.7%42,688 instances29 of 48
Drawn later58.3%67,642 instances12 of 48
In the deck54.7%265,011 instances10 of 49
Without seeing it53.7%154,145 instances1 of 49
Improvement when drawn+2.4 pp110,330 instances / 154,145 instances28 of 49
When benched54.3%111,698.2 matches16 of 49
Makes the deck63.5%65,781 picks with known usage30 of 49
Pick (last seen)5.9350,145 packs38 of 49
Taken at8.165,781 picks34 of 49

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

White–Black WB59.0%9,849 instancesBlue–Black UB57.2%5,394 instancesBlack–Green BG56.5%12,679 instancesBlack–Red BR54.9%8,258 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.1% · 110,330 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Patient Naturalist+4.2 pp53,032 games with both in the deck · 12,449 both drawnStubborn Burrowfiend+3.5 pp26,040 games with both in the deck · 5,376 both drawnCaustic Bronco+3.3 pp20,641 games with both in the deck · 4,335 both drawn
How 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 67% of 347 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 16–May 27, 2024

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

OTJ 0094 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster$0.16
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$0.23

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.40%) · 41.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 138 packs (0.72%) · 23.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 13 packs (7.91%) · 94.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Play BoosterCommon or bonus-sheet replacement80%Common
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil commons100% per positionTraditional foil commons

Wizards · Collecting Outlaws of Thunder Junction ↗ · 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
Zuzanna Wużyk, OTJ 94 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting Outlaws of Thunder Junction · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
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