Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra + Resourceful Defense + Thousand-Year Elixir

Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra

Resourceful Defense

Thousand-Year Elixir

How it works

1. Activate Terra, Magical Adept by paying 4 and tapping it, exiling it and returning it to the battlefield as Esper Terra.
2. When Esper Terra enters the battlefield, its first chapter ability triggers, copying another nonlegendary Saga you control and putting two to three lore counters on it.
3. The Saga tokens first through fourth chapter abilities trigger, as applicable. Resolve all triggers, and sacrifice the Saga token upon resolving the final trigger.
4. When the Saga token leaves the battlefield, Resourceful Defense triggers, moving the lore counters from the Saga token onto Esper Terra.
5. Esper Terra's second, third and fourth chapter abilities trigger.
6. Resolve the second and third chapter abilities.
7. Resolve the fourth chapter ability, adding and then exiling Esper Terra and returning it to the battlefield as Terra, Magical Adept.
8. Resourceful Defense and Terra, Magical Adept trigger.
9. Resolve the Resourceful Defense trigger, moving all counters from Esper Terra onto any other permanent
10. Resolve the Terra, Magical Adept trigger, causing you to mill five cards and return up to one enchantment card from among them from your graveyard to your hand.
11. Repeat.

This dazzling loop revolves around cycling Terra, Magical Adept and its transformed Saga side, Esper Terra, back and forth through exile to generate massive value. Thousand-Year Elixir provides the crucial haste-like speed needed to activate Terra's Trance ability repeatedly, while Resourceful Defense catches the lore counters as the copied Sagas leave the battlefield, preserving them so Esper Terra rapidly accumulates counters and fires off its mana-producing fourth chapter. Each time the cycle resets, Terra, Magical Adept fills your hand with milled enchantments, fueling an unstoppable engine of infinite mana, triggers, and token copies.