Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Woe Strider + Earth Village Ruffians

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Woe Strider

Earth Village Ruffians

How it works

1. Cast Earth Village Ruffians by paying its mana cost
2. When Earth Village Ruffians enters, its earthbend ability triggers, causing it to earthbend itself as it is a Forest due to Ashaya.
3. Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Earth Village Ruffians
4. When Earth Village Ruffians dies, it triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
5. When Earth Village Ruffians enters, its earthbend ability triggers, causing it to earthbend itself as it is a Forest due to Ashaya.
6. Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
7. Repeat from step 3.

This clever loop turns a modest common into an endless engine by weaving together type-changing magic and recursive sacrifice. Because Ashaya, Soul of the Wild grants all your nontoken creatures the Forest land type in addition to their other types, Earth Village Ruffians effectively becomes a land as well as a creature. This means when Earth Village Ruffians dies and triggers its earthbend ability—returning itself to the battlefield tapped—it enters as both a creature and a land, immediately re-triggering its own ability upon arrival. Woe Strider acts as the sacrificial outlet that makes this engine run on demand, letting you feed Earth Village Ruffians to the graveyard infinitely while filtering your library with endless scry triggers.