Playing around with lands, necro effects, and abusing the Gifts-ex-machina.
The gist is to keep board state neutral until you constrict yourself a win.
Notable combos:
Life from the Loam + raven's crime = BBBG(1) opponent discards 3 cards (playable every turn)
Life from the loam + Ayula's influence = G(1) create three 2/2 bears (playable every turn)
Crucible of worlds: replay man-lands (blockers, damage clock), replay nurturing peetland to keep drawing, replay tectonic edge, replay buried ruin (grabs crucible back if killed, grabs engineered explosives)
Gifts- 4 cards (in a vacuum) are crucible, buried ruin, life from the loam, raven's crime
They give you crucible and ruin, you get everything you want.
They give you crucible and life from the loam, you get everything you want.
They give you crucible and raven's crime, you get everything you want.
They give you ruin and life from the loam, you grab back crucible and get to work.
They give you ruin and raven's crime, you grab back crucible and get to work.
They give you life from the loam and raven's crime (most likely), you grab back.
ruin, then grab back crucible and get to work
If you have any of the pieces already, sub in eternal witness for funzies (get gifts
back and run it again), snap if you have unearth, a man land/tectonic
edge/nurturing peetland, etc.
Major win conditions are spamming Ayula's, man lands, or small critter damage.
Comments and criticisms appreciated
Sideboard outline
Critter based/fast critters-
+ 1 bontu's last reckoning
- 1 gifts
Control-
+ 2 pithing needle
- 1 engineered explosives, -1 abrupt decay
Dredge-
+ 1 ashiok, 1 nihil spellbomb, 1 bojuka bog, 1 bontu's last reckoning, 2 scavenging ooze
- 1 collective brutality, 4 inquisition of kozilek, 1 raven's crime
Storm-
+ 1 damping sphere, 1 ashiok, 2 witchbane orb, 1 nihil spellbomb
- 1 engineered explosive, 2 abrupt decay, 1 sultai charm, 1 jace
Burn-
+ 2 witchbane orb, 2 scavenging ooze, 1 bontu's last reckoning
- 4 dark confidant, 1 sultai charm
Artifacts-
+ 1 creeping corrosion, 2 pithing needle, 1 ceremonious rejection
- 3 fatal push, 1 engineered explosives
Superfriends-
+ 2 pithing needle, +1 hero's downfall
- 1 sultai charm, 1 engineered explosive, 1 abrupt decay
Tron-
+ 2 pithing needle, 1 spreading seas, 1 damping sphere, 1 hero's downfall
- 3 fatal push, 2 abrupt decay