Yedora, Grave Gardener + Ruthless Ripper + Night of Souls' Betrayal
How it works
- Cast Ruthless Ripper by paying .
- Ruthless Ripper dies as a state-based action due to having zero or less toughness.
- Yedora triggers, returning Ruthless Ripper to the battlefield face-down as a Forest land.
- Activate Ruthless Ripper by tapping it, adding .
- Activate Ruthless Ripper's morph ability by revealing a black card from your hand, turning it face-up.
- Ruthless Ripper triggers, causing target player to lose 2 life.
- Repeat from step 2.
This intricate loop uses Night of Souls' Betrayal as a lethal crucible, instantly reducing any creature with 1 toughness to zero as a state-based action the moment it enters the battlefield. When Ruthless Ripper succumbs to this fate, Yedora, Grave Gardener steps in to resurrect it as a fresh Forest land, neatly bypassing its normal death by letting it re-enter the fray. Because this newly minted land is still a creature, you can tap Ruthless Ripper for green mana before turning it face up via its morph ability—fueled by revealing a black card from your hand—which triggers its life-drain ability to chip away at your opponent. By continuously cycling this face-down revival and unmorphing process, you harness the endless dance of death and rebirth to drain an opponent's life total entirely.