Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Mind Over Matter + Forgotten Cave

Life from the Loam

Surly Badgersaur

Mind Over Matter

Forgotten Cave

How it works

1. Activate Forgotten Cave's cycling ability by paying and discarding it.
2. Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
3. Resolve the Forgotten Cave ability, causing you to mill three cards and return Life from the Loam from your graveyard to your hand.
4. Activate Mind over Matter by discarding a land card.
5. Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
6. Resolve the Mind over Matter ability, untapping target artifact, creature or land.
7. Repeat from step 4 one additional time.
8. Activate the three Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding 1.
9. Cast Life from the Loam by paying 1, returning Forgotten Cave and two other lands from your graveyard to your hand.
10. Repeat.

This engine is a masterclass in recycling your own resources, transforming a simple land cycle into an overwhelming cascade of mana and triggers. By utilizing Mind Over Matter as the primary engine, you can continuously discard lands to untap your key pieces, while Surly Badgersaur watches closely to reward every single discard by minting Treasure tokens to fuel your spells. To keep the gears turning, Life from the Loam jumps in to scoop those discarded lands right back out of the graveyard—or you can leverage its dredge ability while cycling Forgotten Cave to dig deep through your library.