Tortured Existence + Insidious Roots + Tannuk, Steadfast Second

Tortured Existence

Insidious Roots

Tannuk, Steadfast Second

How it works

1. Activate Tortured Existence by paying and discarding a creature card, returning any other creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
2. Insidious Roots triggers, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token, then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
3. Activate the Plant by tapping it, adding .
4. Repeat.

This clever loop relies on Tortured Existence to continuously cycle creature cards between your hand and graveyard for just a single black mana each time. Whenever a creature card leaves your graveyard, Insidious Roots triggers to hatch a 0/1 Plant token while also growing all your Plants with +1/+1 counters. You can then tap that newly minted Plant token for mana thanks to the static ability granted by Insidious Roots itself, fueling the next iteration of the cycle. Meanwhile, Tannuk, Steadfast Second stands ready to give your team haste if needed, while its warp ability provides an alternate way to deploy artifacts and red creatures from your hand.