Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra + Resourceful Defense + Dragonlord Kolaghan

Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra

Resourceful Defense

Dragonlord Kolaghan

How it works

1. Activate Terra, Magical Adept by paying 4 and tapping it, exiling it and returning it to the battlefield as Esper Terra.
2. When Esper Terra enters the battlefield, its first chapter ability triggers, copying another nonlegendary Saga you control and putting two to three lore counters on it.
3. The Saga tokens first through fourth chapter abilities trigger, as applicable. Resolve all triggers, and sacrifice the Saga token upon resolving the final trigger.
4. When the Saga token leaves the battlefield, Resourceful Defense triggers, moving the lore counters from the Saga token onto Esper Terra.
5. Esper Terra's second, third and fourth chapter abilities trigger.
6. Resolve the second and third chapter abilities.
7. Resolve the fourth chapter ability, adding and then exiling Esper Terra and returning it to the battlefield as Terra, Magical Adept.
8. Resourceful Defense and Terra, Magical Adept trigger.
9. Resolve the Resourceful Defense trigger, moving all counters from Esper Terra onto any other permanent
10. Resolve the Terra, Magical Adept trigger, causing you to mill five cards and return up to one enchantment card from among them from your graveyard to your hand.
11. Repeat.

This dazzling loop spins up through the transformation of Terra, Magical Adept into its back face, Esper Terra, using its Trance ability to kick off a flurry of powerful Saga-copying chapters. As each copied Saga token inevitably departs the battlefield, Resourceful Defense steps in to salvage its accumulated lore counters, migrating them seamlessly back onto Esper Terra to chain its chapters—including the mana-producing fourth chapter—over and over again. Dragonlord Kolaghan sits proudly alongside this engine as a fierce benefactor of the resulting creature tokens and triggers, ensuring your recursive loop translates into an overwhelming, game-ending board presence.