Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Land's Edge + Tranquil Thicket
How it works
- Activate Tranquil Thicket's cycling ability by paying and discarding it.
- Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- Resolve the Tranquil Thicket ability, causing you to mill three cards and return Life from the Loam from your graveyard to your hand.
- Activate Land's Edge by discarding a land card.
- Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- Resolve the Land's Edge ability, dealing 2 damage to an opponent.
- Repeat from step 4 one additional time.
- Activate the three Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding 1.
- Cast Life from the Loam by paying 1, returning Tranquil Thicket and two other lands from your graveyard to your hand.
- Repeat.
This loop is a masterclass in turning self-discard into a devastating engine, built around the way Surly Badgersaur aggressively rewards you for throwing cards away. By cycling Tranquil Thicket, you trigger the Badgersaur to mint a Treasure while seamlessly feeding Life from the Loam back into your hand via its dredge ability, which replaces your draws with self-mill. Meanwhile, Land's Edge acts as an active discard outlet that not only fuels the engine by binning land cards to continually ping away at your opponents, but also triggers Surly Badgersaur *again* for more Treasure generation. The Treasures effortlessly pay the mana cost to cast Life from the Loam over and over, recurring your discarded lands and Tranquil Thicket so the cycle can repeat indefinitely for near-infinite damage.