Life from the Loam
Mana Cost:
Type: Sorcery
Oracle Text:
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Ravnica Remastered
Price ( USD): $7.08
USD: $7.08 · EUR: €5.39
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Character Background
Life from the Loam is pure green reclamation: for {1}{G} you convert the graveyard into repeatable mana stability and card advantage, evoking the idea of pulling life back from the earth rather than inventing new power. Practically it best supports value and graveyard-combo strategies—midrange or attrition decks that want to grind out advantage by refueling lands, and dedicated dredge shells that abuse its Dredge 3 to recur itself. It pairs exceptionally well with Crucible of Worlds or Ramunap Excavator so you can replay lands permanently, and with fetch lands or cycling lands to generate extra triggers and sacrifice fodder; consider 6–10 fetches and 2–3 land-recursion pieces in your build. Use it to reuse utility lands (Wasteland/Field of Ruin-style effects) or to stabilize mana in two- or three-color decks. Be mindful of graveyard hate—Life from the Loam loses much of its edge to exile effects—so include protection or redundancy if that’s common in your meta.
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