Retreat to Emeria + Haru, Hidden Talent + Woe Strider

Retreat to Emeria

Haru, Hidden Talent

Woe Strider

How it works

1. Play a land.
2. When the land enters, Retreat to Emeria triggers, creating a 1/1 Kor Ally creature token.
3. When the Kor Ally enters, Haru triggers, earthbending the land that entered.
4. Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing the earthbended land.
5. Haru triggers, returning the land from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
6. When the land enters, Retreat to Emeria triggers, creating a 1/1 Kor Ally creature token.
7. When the Kor Ally enters, Haru triggers, earthbending the land that entered.
8. Resolve the Woe Strider ability from step 4.
9. Repeat from step 4.

This clever loop turns the simple act of dropping a land into a self-sustaining engine by utilizing land animation as a loopable sacrifice resource. Whenever you play a land, Retreat to Emeria triggers to spawn a Kor Ally, which in turn causes Haru, Hidden Talent to earthbend that very same land into a creature. You then feed this animated land directly to Woe Strider's sacrifice ability; because Haru's earthbend effect safely returns the land to the battlefield tapped whenever it dies or is exiled, the land immediately triggers Retreat to Emeria all over again to restart the entire sequence.