Use surveil, milling and trading creatures to create valuable recursion targets while maintaining enough resources for sacrifice costs.
Use surveil, milling and trading creatures to create valuable recursion targets while maintaining enough resources for sacrifice costs.
Commit when repeated useful cards and enough support make a complete deck in these colors.
Four checks while you draft
Can I affect the board before the payoff?
Surveil on entry and death can put a recursion target in the graveyard while improving the next draw. Its four power can also station efficiently.
Do my actual cards enable this plan?
Broodtender can sacrifice itself to return any creature or Spacecraft, including Pinnacle Kill-Ship. Scrounge is a separate cheaper option only for targets with mana value five or less.
Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?
Use surveil, milling and trading creatures to create valuable recursion targets while maintaining enough resources for sacrifice costs.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
The key card is present but its support is thin.
Prioritize useful support such as Thawbringer or Scrounge for Eternity.
Broodtender can sacrifice itself to return any creature or Spacecraft, including Pinnacle Kill-Ship. Scrounge is a separate cheaper option only for targets with mana value five or less.
Your deck already enables the plan but is losing the early turns.
Take a castable early creature or efficient answer before a second expensive payoff.
Scrounge cannot return Pinnacle Kill-Ship or the creature sacrificed to pay for Scrounge. Its target must already exist in the graveyard when targets are chosen.
The support is missing
Favor independently useful creatures and interaction if the narrow support does not arrive.
Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.
Scrounge cannot return Pinnacle Kill-Ship or the creature sacrificed to pay for Scrounge. Its target must already exist in the graveyard when targets are chosen.
Exile the graveyard target in response to recursion. Removing Scrounge’s sole target stops both the return and the Lander while its casting cost stays paid.
Monoist Circuit-Feeder59.4% GIH · 2,172 instances
Dubious Delicacy59.2% GIH · 2,598 instances
Fell Gravship58.7% GIH · 2,553 instances
Harmonious Grovestrider58.2% GIH · 2,244 instances
Meltstrider's Resolve57.8% GIH · 2,048 instances
Glacier Godmaw57.3% GIH · 2,446 instances17Lands ↗ · Jul 29–Sep 1, 2025 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Elegy Acolyte 2BBLifelink stabilizes, a connecting creature earns a card, and void can leave an extra Robot each end step. Arrange a nonland departure before the end step and keep enough attackers to threaten the combat-damage reward. The draw trigger is once per combat-damage event, not per creature.
Sunset Saboteur 1BMenace and a discard ward cost make this an awkward early threat, but each attack puts a counter on an opposing creature. Choose the least dangerous legal recipient and reconsider attacks that would grow their best blocker beyond your removal.
Ouroboroid 2GGIts first combat trigger grows your entire board, including itself, so cast it before combat and keep enough creatures to share the counters. Power changes before resolution affect the size of that reward; answer it before the first combat trigger when possible.
Celestial Colonnade A tapped white-blue land becomes a flying vigilant threat for five mana. It can tap for mana after attacking because vigilance kept it untapped, but activating it does not protect it from creature removal. Do not animate a land that entered this turn and expect it to attack.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Jul 29–Sep 1, 2025 · 100-instance minimum
ThawbringerSurveil on entry and death can put a recursion target in the graveyard while improving the next draw. Its four power can also station efficiently.
Scrounge for EternityTarget a creature or Spacecraft already in your graveyard with mana value five or less. Choose targets before paying the sacrifice; you cannot return the creature sacrificed to cast this spell. Losing the sole target also prevents the Lander.
Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
|---|---|
| With one pick, fill the missing early play, answer or support card before adding another narrow payoff. The plan must work without drawing its key card. | Compare complete builds from the cards you opened. Keep the castable curve and interaction even if the draft theme is only partly supported. |
Broodtender can sacrifice itself to return any creature or Spacecraft, including Pinnacle Kill-Ship. Scrounge is a separate cheaper option only for targets with mana value five or less.
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