Tortured Existence + Insidious Roots + Frostcliff Siege

Tortured Existence

Insidious Roots

Frostcliff Siege

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 a single black mana each time, fueling an engine that scales out of control. Every time a creature card leaves your graveyard, Insidious Roots triggers to spit out a 0/1 Plant creature token while pumping your growing garden with +1/+1 counters. Thanks to the mana-generating ability granted directly by Insidious Roots, that newly hatched Plant taps to pay the exact black mana needed to feed Tortured Existence again. Meanwhile, Frostcliff Siege sits on the board silently providing passive aggression, pumping your creatures with +1/+0, trample, and haste (or drawing you cards if you choose Jeskai), turning your infinite loop into a devastating army.