Rydia, Summoner of Mist

Gameplan

Rydia is a value-and-recursion engine that loots aggressively off every land drop, filling the graveyard with Sagas you then reanimate with her Summon ability. You play out the early game on lands and ramp, dumping expensive Sagas with the landfall loot, then use , to slam them back from the yard at instant-restart with haste, chaining their best chapters and creature flips for repeated payoff each turn.

Key Cards

• Kiora Bests the Sea God — A green Saga that makes an 8/8 and ramps—prime Summon target you can loot away and reanimate with haste.
• The Akroan War — Red Saga that steals a creature and beats down, devastating when replayed from the yard each turn.
• Crucible of Worlds — Replays fetched and sacrificed lands to spam landfall loots and chain Rydia's draw triggers.
• Burgeoning — Extra land drops mean extra landfall loot triggers to dig and fuel the graveyard.
• Life from the Loam — Dredges back lands for repeat landfall draws while filling the yard with Sagas to Summon.
• Underworld Breach — A backup graveyard engine and emergency recursion that complements Summon's Saga reanimation.

Upgrade Path

Tighten the Saga package toward bombs with strong chapter-one or flip payoffs and pair them with fast self-mill/discard like Stitcher's Supplier effects to load the yard early. Add more free or cheap reanimation and extra-land-drop enablers (Exploration, Azusa, Ramunap Excavator) so Rydia's loot fires multiple times per turn, and lean into ramp to make large Summons trivial. For higher power, include resilient combo finishes via Underworld Breach loops and tutors to assemble your best Sagas consistently.