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Along the Crooked Way
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A strong graveyard-value engine that immediately returns a creature and amasses 1, then rewards every future creature card leaving your graveyard. Its menace activation makes Goblin and Army boards difficult to block and gives it a particularly strong home in BR.
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Gameplay notes
Whenever possible, cast this with a creature already in your graveyard: its enters trigger resolves while the enchantment is on the battlefield, so returning that creature also triggers amass 1. Account for the menace activation before attacking, since leaving {1}{B} available can make profitable blocks impossible.
Key synergies
Every amass trigger puts counters on a Goblin or Army, causing The Great Goblin to deal 2 damage. The menace activation also helps that growing Army connect in combat.
Each time Gollum returns itself from your graveyard to your hand, Along the Crooked Way amasses 1. Gollum's sacrifice cost also helps stock the graveyard with other creatures for the enchantment's enters ability.
When chapter II returns a creature from your graveyard, Along the Crooked Way sees that creature card leave the graveyard and amasses Goblins 1 in addition to the reanimation.
Casting Tidings via flashback exiles it from the graveyard after resolution, triggering Along the Crooked Way to amass 1 in addition to Tidings' amass 3.
Returning the Pair with Along the Crooked Way immediately amasses 1, and after it is replayed its death produces another four counters. The resulting Goblin Army can then gain menace from the enchantment.
Gathering returns a creature card from your graveyard, which triggers Along the Crooked Way for an additional amass 1 on top of Gathering's amass 3.
Chapter II supplies a Goblin Army that Along the Crooked Way can give menace, turning the Saga's incremental body into a much harder-to-block threat.
Casting the enchantment triggers Bothersome Noisemaker to create or grow a Goblin Army, while its later graveyard-recursion triggers provide additional amass counters and its activated ability gives that Army menace.
Along the Crooked Way can return Great Ugly-Looking Goblin from the graveyard to your hand, triggering its own amass ability and allowing the Goblin to be cast again; the resulting counter-bearing Army then receives permanent menace from the Goblin.
Misty Mountains Raider repeatedly grows a Goblin Army, while Along the Crooked Way can grant that increasingly large Army menace so opponents cannot contain all of its accumulated power with a single blocker.
Whenever Silvan Reveler's Landfall ability returns it from the graveyard to your hand, Along the Crooked Way sees a creature card leave your graveyard and amasses Goblins 1.
Returning Azog from your graveyard to your hand triggers Along the Crooked Way to amass Goblins 1, and recasting Azog then provides another enters trigger that can convert a creature into additional Army counters and a card.
Elf creature cards milled and then moved to your hand by Cantankerous Keepers leave your graveyard, triggering Along the Crooked Way's amass ability for each one while Keepers still provides the recovered cards.
Riddles stocks the graveyard with creatures for Along the Crooked Way to return; that creature leaving the graveyard also triggers its amass ability.