wickeddarkman

With field of ruin, you gain a land. You lose a land with tectonic, and tectonic only works if the opponent has 4 lands so you are not really having an ld deck with it.
You can also exploit the fact that with field of ruin, the land the opponent get comes into play tapped, by playing spreading algae on it, not only is this ld but it ensures that you remove their dual lands first, and by fishing out their basics as well, they will likely get stranded with fetchlands in their deck.

With life from the loam you will be able to retrieve field of ruin and remove a land from their deck each turn, while using tectonic you stand still and cannot develope your gameplan when they have just three lands in play (or 4 basics)

Also, what would allow you to play worm harvest faster and with a bigger yield of worms ?
Tectonic or field ?

Replace tectonic with field of ruin. The land they get comes tapped into play.
Getting their lands to tap may also be a key strategy.

In that case I can recommend far//away.
You can bounce with it, you can force a sacrifice of something you can't bounce or even both.

I love seeing pithing needle in the sideboard.
Considerations towards activated graveyard hatred like relic is of the essence.

Shadowmage infiltrator was time shifted, so it should be legal for you.
I've also always liked looter ill-kor.

There's so many things killing visions.
Maybe modern millers just mill themselves more often than I would think they'd do.

I looked up the definition of recursion :)
"A combination that allows you to replay cards from the graveyard, in a loop"
Granted, dread is a slow loop, and a rather soft combo (it must be discarded), but I spent about half an hour searching for past articles on reshuffling as "methods of shuffling the deck"

I think if I had to choose a category, I'd go with "anti attrition"

The real interesting thing is that the "end of the mechanic" seems to coincide with a huge surge in commander players. Another theory might be that the meta reached a saturation of graveyard hatred enough to keep the use of the mechanic at bay. The dissatisfied recursion players then turned to commander in pure frustration.

I remember when all blue decks played 1 trinket mage, 1 engineered explosives and one tolarian ruins.

We see half recursive cards like lurrus and mishra's bauble most of the time.

The best recent recursion I've seen is mystical sanctuary + cryptic command. Bounce the land, draw a card, then draw cryptic command. When it works it's powerfull, but this one is a glass jawed version.

People used to have much more solid recursions. I got a 2018 fourcolored kiki-jikki testdeck with restoration angel and eternal witness and reveillark. It's backup upon backup upon backup and pretty hard to beat.

Well, I've gone to the great web for the answers, and the answer was that the phrase "recursion" has shifted from meaning repeatedly getting something back from the graveyard into being an action caused several times.
The player hivemind has concluded that kiki-jikki + restoration angel is recursion.
Older players think of recursion as stemming from cards like recurring nightmare.

A change in magic lingo apparently killed of the concept of the mechanic.

Ironically edh players are experiencing lots of old style recursion decks and are complaining that there isn't enough graveyard hatred in the format to stop it.

So perhaps one day, an EDH player will turn to modern and restart a recursion craze.

Yeah, don't I know it.
I've tried to convince millers to cut out visions of beyond from their decks since before 2018, and not even mentioning the escape mechanic seems to convince them.

It does demand some key elements to be present.
I'm trying to teach him about reshuffling as a mechanic :)

You should find someone who plays oldschool magic and has a deck with timetwister and wheel of fortune.
The oldschool format hasn't forgotten the power of reshuffling their deck.
I thought it was a timeless part of the game until some months ago where I discovered that modern players have forgotten the mechanic.

It's why so few get the idea of it's power.

It's simply slipped the conscious of people.
Maybe you could read up on attrition decks ?
Pox is an attrition deck. The role of nether spirit in it plays exactly into the mechanic of reshuffling.
But the math of it won't come from me, I suck at math.

Plenty of decks used reshuffling back in 2018.

I based my whole prison series slightly upon the mechanic, but have one deck which focuses intensely on it.

If you search for the decktag: wdm prison
Click on the deck named RW reshuffler prison and proxy it for a smart friend and then play your pox against him, you should be able to see the power of it quite clearly.

Blasphemous act AND boros Reckoner;)

They can only escape themselves. You can turn stream inwards to increase your own card quality. It can loop alone without the aid of other cards.

In doing so it affects the board state indirectly, by milling yourself and reshuffling removal cards.
In particular it can reshuffle snapcaster and kolaghan's command.
The three cards form a much more powerfull loop.

The troll doesn't want to be cheap it seems :)

Tallowwisp is seeing a lot of action in the kitchen table environment.
I'm gonna steal your midnight guard + elemental mastery combo for one of my own projects
Search for the decktag: wdm prison
There are a lot of decks listed there, that share a common core and has space for 9 cards.
I'm gonna try out adding three of each of the above cards ;)

Hey mekkakat,
Theres been a troll haunting this place for a while, which may have been why everyone's been getting so few upvotes.
He's been copypasting decks from several accounts and everytime someone made something moderately interesting he's been upvoting his own stuff or old accounts to bury it at the bottom pages.

It's good to see you are still active.

There is a similare deck to this which has gained in popularity after the printing of cleansing wildfire.
It relies on flagstones, leonin arbiter, ghostquarter, field of ruins, boom//bust and other similar things.

Into the story and tasigur will love it :)

And happens before the opponent get an untap, upkeep or draw ;)
And it's pretty budget deck compared to the above deck :)

I've been advocating stream of thought for quite a while now.
I've collected around 14 reasons why it's playable, and I've told plenty of players about it.

Search for the decktag: wdm mill
Then click on the deck called stream of thought

It will loop quite well with snapcaster and kolaghan's command as those three cards can keep reviving each other.

I'm working on making room for it in my own grixis design that is called
Back in 2018

It's been a while since I've involved myself in legacy, but isn't elvish spirit guide viable in this?
Both for the mana boost, but also as a backup plan if you somehow lose too many of your infect creatures.