Life from the Loam + Surly Badgersaur + Mind Over Matter + Tranquil Thicket

Life from the Loam

Surly Badgersaur

Mind Over Matter

Tranquil Thicket

How it works

1. Activate Tranquil Thicket's cycling ability by paying and discarding it.
2. Surly Badgersaur's second ability triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
3. Resolve the Tranquil Thicket 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 Tranquil Thicket and two other lands from your graveyard to your hand.
10. Repeat.

This delightful engine uses Mind Over Matter as the ultimate discard outlet, letting you pitch cards to continuously untap your mana sources and fuel your loop. Surly Badgersaur thrives on this discarding frenzy, turning every pitched land into a steady stream of Treasure tokens to generate the mana you need. To keep the gears turning, you cycle Tranquil Thicket to draw into your core resources while using Life from the Loam to dredge itself back and return all those discarded lands straight to your hand.