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We've established why Life from the Loam is good with lands. With the advent of Thespian's Stage in 2013, various kinds of Dark Depths Combo became a prolific outlet for Life from the Loam. Although the Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage interaction doesn't need Life from the Loam in order to...

Oops, forgot one more thing. There's also this... I am not optimistic about this. And from the reception I've been seeing this announcement get, neither is anyone else. Yikes.

Let's check in again! How about those Challenge results? Latest MTGO Legacy Challenge Top 8: Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Zirda Jegantha Latest MTGO Vintage Challenge Top 8: Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Lurrus Latest MTGO Modern Challenge Top 8: No Companion...

That wouldn't work. That would work, although if Throg used it to imbibe a non-alcoholic beverage, it would turn alcoholic.

Kelgar is only like 95% on autopilot or something! We could ask Melkor if you like. I'm also comfortable just letting you guys decide by consensus or whatever.

No! There's no visible indication. It's just an ominous feeling that you get. :P

Ty finds no enemies, but realizes something about the staircase... The staircase leads to the next deep of the dungeon. Entering it will end "Enchanted Wood" and begin the next chapter: "Desolate Roots."

The door swings open easily. Cautiously, you file into the next room. At the far end of the room is a macabre altar with a staircase behind it, leading down. Tomas scrutinizes the altar with interest. "Well, this looks—wait, nevermind. Now then, there's also, hm, no..." The wizard grows...

So... Anyone gonna do anything here? Forgot I left this thread sitting all week because no one did anything (except Throg taking a grisly trophy, I guess).

Seismic Assault is a decent red card and Life from the Loam can fuel it as a damage source, but the combo isn't really a particularly mean/evil/cruel/sadistic one. And some of you might ask the question: "How will my opponents know that I'm a bad person if I don't do bad things to them?" For...

I didn't expect it, but this thread had me reminiscing about the early days of the Dredge mechanic and noticing something subtle, yet obvious once it is pointed out: the lack of Dread Return. Dredge cards, and Life from the Loam in particular, were successful pretty much right away, proving...

While we don't have the real cards out yet, MTGO results are already proving how utterly silly this idea was. Mark Rosewater's imaginary interns of five years ago got it right. Should have listened to those guys... Latest MTGO Legacy Challenge Top 8: Lurrus Lurrus Yorion Lurrus No Companion...

Another very early use for Life from the Loam was alongside other Dredge cards in a Psychatog deck. Sometimes known as Dredge-a-Tog, this was one of many concepts that made up the vast constellation of "Tog." In hindsight it's surreal, because "Tog" is some bit of historical trivia and Dredge...

I've grown so accustomed to Seismic Assault in Legacy decks, particularly Aggro Loam decks, that it's easy to forget the Seismic Assault + Life from the Loam combo featured prominently in Extended before those decks existed, and that it looked very different from the Legacy configuration. The...

I can't remember when I first heard about Life from the Loam or saw it in action. The application in Madness decks must have been one of the earliest historical uses I was aware of, but it seems likely that another application was identified and exploited even before that... After all, Seismic...

While Thought Prison is kind of an unusual card, that part of it follows a pretty standard template, which is why it's still the same in Oracle text as it is on the original printed card. It has you choose a card and tell you clearly that it's having you choose a card. The part with the...

In the thread for Lion's Eye Diamond, I highlighted Life from the Loam as a card in Legacy URG Madness decks. I assume that I knew at the time I'd eventually be doing one of these threads for LftL, although I can't actually remember what I was specifically thinking. Mentioning Life from the Loam...

There's probably a lot more that could be said regarding Golgari Loam Control decks, but one point in particular seems memorable here. Earlier, I noted that when Innistrad introduced Liliana of the Veil, one of the most iconic planeswalkers, Loam Pox fell out of favor as the monoblack version of...

Throg takes the poison. He also removes Nayadra's head, although he doesn't currently have any armor spikes on which to mount it. (You could jam the severed head onto one of the big old horns on your skull helm.)

I talked quite a bit about black cards recently in this thread, but I have glossed over what's probably been the most important black creature for Loam decks... It's not as fun as Countryside Crusher and it lacks the sheer insane power of Knight of the Reliquary, but Bloodghast has perhaps...