Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Combos

• Deathrite Shaman + Life from the Loam

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

capwner on Low cost cards to help …

2 days ago

^ Yavi is one of my favs. In addition to what others have said I'd also rec Thawing Glaciers which is probably my fav land of all time if I had to pick one. It's especially nice if you run Rings of Brighthearth for copying fetches and/or with any land untappers. Blossoming Tortoise and Shigeki, Jukai Visionary are solid options though more ramp than landfixing. Not a perm but Life from the Loam is great. I also like Realms Uncharted for finding tech lands, you can get any two lands along with Echoing Deeps and Petrified Field. Gl with your build!

hyalopterouslemur on Ode to the old Commanders: Xerox, Mimeo?

1 week ago

Why are you running Reliquary Tower? Graveyard-based strategies don't want Reliquary Tower; if you have 8 or more cards, dumping a few of them in the graveyard is great.

Okay, that out of the way. Some suggestions for cards you could use:

Life from the Loam and cycling lands. This is a simple loop: Cast LFTL getting a cycling land out of your graveyard, cycle that land, dredge LFTL instead of drawing a card, repeat. Not infinite. (You still need a minimum of 3 mana each run through.) Speaking of dredge, you might want Golgari Grave-Troll.

Kami of Whispered Hopes A mana dork that also acts as a Hardened Scales. Nice.

Brawn, Wonder, and Genesis These you should know. They have abilities in the graveyard which may be useful to you.

Living Death Just...try it. That's all I can say.

Mulch Another one to fill your graveyard.

enraged on Hazezon Desert Ranger

6 months ago

Build looks great! I always like to try to play as many lands as possible in my land builds, it can be trick though because they're soo expensive.

Couple cards I think you neeeeed are Urza's Cave and Life from the Loam very powerful tools in land decks.

Profet93 on Red-Glove Landscaping LLC.

8 months ago

Andramalech

I'm a guy but I get it, the description/list is still being updated. Lands usually are the last to be updated, even in a land deck.

Have you considered adding Berserk? Super powerful in your build, easy to cast and can even be used on opposing creatures for some surprise politics.

Nature's Lore/Three Visits > Rampant growth

I like how u run both Cultivator collusus and sylvan library, nice synergy. Speaking of sylvan library synergy, Life from the Loam might be worth considering for both it's own value + it's synergy with library. More synergy with life from the loam includes Realms Uncharted, but that's if you dedicate a lot more non-basics. You do have a lot of cards to recur lands so its worth noting.

Lastly, (I understand ur still updating the list, its just worth noting that) you have 97 cards in your deck currently.

Andramalech on Uncouterable Reanimator

10 months ago

Sliverguy420 didn't mention any removal despite saying you needed some- I recommend you include Unholy Heat, or potentially something like Krosan Grip so that you can stop the chaining decks like Storm from piling over you. Things like Force of Vigor help you for casting-for-free, and helping prioritize other slots of the deck. I don't know what budget you have at your disposal, but in terms of reanimating, I recommend you use a Sultai ({U}{B}{G}) shell to get the most out of your reanimating potential. Reanimate,Entomb,Animate Dead,Victimize are all considerable options for the prospect of bringing stuff back from the grave.

Don't forget that Graveyards are super easy to target, and having slots for your sideboard to counteract Graveyard removal are super important. Endurance would be a perfect inclusion for that role. Other cards that may help are Feldon's Cane, and Gaea's Blessing.

Best of luck with your deckbuilding, and don't forget that Life from the Loam also exists to help you snatch lands for casting on curve, while also filling your graveyard in order to have more reanimation targets.

Andramalech on Mono green superramp

10 months ago

eww... alright, lemme help.

• Elvish Mystic / Llanowar Elves - maybe spring for the Birds of Paradise if you can. Fyndhorn Elves do the exact same thing at this point.

• Arbor Elf and then included Utopia Sprawl, maybe use Sakura-Tribe Elder. Satyr Wayfinder also provides the same utility here.

• Fanatic of Rhonas can also help.

• You're likely going to want to include Arboreal Grazer and the typical Flare of Cultivation.

• The other thing that might help considering the intention of your build, is it seems you've overlooked Dryad Arbor and Green Sun's Zenith.

• Your game winners/closers are Dungrove Elder, Lumra, Bellow of the Woods and Cultivator Colossus.

• Maybe consider Scapeshift, Ayula's Influence, Life from the Loam. Cheers!

DreadKhan on

1 year ago

Maybe Manamorphose x2 as a way to turn 1G or GG into BB for your Hexmage? Maybe Sakura-Tribe Scout? I feel like hitting land #3 early is pretty key here, and just generating ramp could let you use something like the aforementioned Sowing Mycospawn that capwner brought up (or tutoring up a Thespian Stage and activating it the same turn).

When I test this vs Pox (and Discard with lots of Edicts) decks it feels like you'd benefit from Life from the Loam, maybe the sideboard could house a few? The issue is that decks that run +10 Edict effects can easily deal with a single big creature (and they don't target), I will say Duress would help vs such effects, but Life from the Loam can get back Dark Depths and whatever else is relevant in your GY, and if Loam is in your Graveyard you can use it's Dredge ability to try to dig for a combo piece.

Cool list!

Flarhoon13 on Dredgefall Windgrace (Land reanimation)

1 year ago

Having completed my quest to play all 52 of my decks, I decided to try getting a win with all of my decks.

Sep 20

Dredgefall Windgrace: win. Giant Torment of Hailfire after ramping to 20 lands including Glacial Chasm, Cabal Coffers and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. So much ramp this game: Life from the Loam, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Far Wanderings, Hour of Promise, and Boundless Realms. My losers' record goes to 4-8