Down in the Valley
Down in the Valley2 G
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I — Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. II — This Saga gains "Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Elf creature token." III, IV — Elves you control get +1/+0 and gain vigilance until end of turn.
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Down in the Valley

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Limited summary

Three-mana Saga that finds a land, then turns every land drop into a 1/1 Elf, then pumps Elves for two turns. The Landfall deck's engine card: fixing, bodies, and a push, all from one card.

Roles

Mana FixingRole — Helps cast multicolor spells or a splash.Token MakerRole — Creates token creatures or artifacts.EnablerSets up the condition its archetype's payoffs reward. Count your enablers before valuing payoffs highly.

Archetypes

Gameplay notes

Chapter II makes the Saga itself a Landfall source — extra land drops while it's on chapters II-IV produce real armies. The chapter III/IV pump favors attacking those turns.

Key synergies

Cantankerous Keepers
Cantankerous KeepersEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 3/3 — Strong

The Saga can repeatedly create Elf tokens through landfall, with each token reducing Cantankerous Keepers' cost. Keepers then joins the Elf board that receives the Saga's later power and vigilance bonuses.

Through the Forest Gate
Through the Forest GateComboA specific, particularly strong two-card interaction.Synergy strength 3/3 — Strong

Casting Through the Forest Gate while the Saga has its landfall ability can put numerous lands onto the battlefield simultaneously, creating an Elf token for each one before the later chapters pump the resulting board.

Bard, King of Dale
Bard, King of DaleDirect SynergyExplicit mechanical interaction between the two cards.Synergy strength 3/3 — Strong

Bard doubles every Elf token created by the Saga's landfall ability, rapidly building a much larger board for chapters III and IV to pump.

Woodland Weavemaster
Woodland WeavemasterComboA specific, particularly strong two-card interaction.Synergy strength 3/3 — Strong

Each Elf token created by the Saga gives Woodland Weavemaster +1/+1 for the turn, increasing the amount of Elf-only mana it can produce; multiple landfall triggers can make that burst substantial.

Thranduil's Company
Thranduil's CompanyComboA specific, particularly strong two-card interaction.Synergy strength 3/3 — Strong

The Saga supplies another Elf to enable Thranduil's Company's additional land play and finds a land to use with it; each land then triggers both permanents, creating an Elf and placing two +1/+1 counters.

Beorn's Hospitality
Beorn's HospitalityArchetype SynergyBoth play complementary roles in the same Limited archetype.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Chapter I finds a basic land to secure a future Hospitality trigger, while subsequent land drops also create Elf tokens that provide additional bodies on which to place Hospitality's counters.

Wood Elves
Wood ElvesEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Once chapter II grants the Saga Landfall, Wood Elves immediately puts a Forest onto the battlefield to create an Elf token; Wood Elves and that token also benefit from the later Elf-wide chapters.

Silvan Reveler
Silvan RevelerArchetype SynergyBoth play complementary roles in the same Limited archetype.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

The Reveler's land-to-battlefield loot and recursion churn out the land drops that the Saga's chapter II converts into Elf tokens.

Elven Raft-Steerer
Elven Raft-SteererEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

The Saga finds a land and later makes your land drops produce Elves — every land is doing double duty with the Raft-Steerer out.

Galion, Elvenking's Butler
Galion, Elvenking's ButlerEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Down in the Valley supplies 1/1 Elf tokens that Galion can turn into 4/4 attackers, while its later chapters grant those Elves additional power and vigilance.

Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll
Roll-Roll-Roll-RollDirect SynergyExplicit mechanical interaction between the two cards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

After Down in the Valley gains landfall, Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll can repeatedly blink one of your lands; each return creates another Elf token while preserving your normal land drop.

Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing
Lake-town Mariners // Gone FishingComboA specific, particularly strong two-card interaction.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Gone Fishing can blink two lands after the Saga gains landfall, immediately generating two Elf tokens in addition to any token made by your normal land drop.

Mirkwood Pathmaker
Mirkwood PathmakerArchetype SynergyBoth play complementary roles in the same Limited archetype.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

The Saga finds a land to keep Pathmaker's land-scaled stats growing, while Pathmaker is itself an Elf that receives the power and vigilance bonuses from chapters III and IV.

Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan RallyMechanic SynergyBoth care about the same set mechanic.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Once the Saga gains its Landfall ability, every land creates one Elf from each permanent. Thranduil's anthem makes all of those tokens larger, while the Saga's later chapters further boost the rapidly expanding Elf board.

Dancing from Dark to Dawn
Dancing from Dark to DawnMechanic SynergyBoth care about the same set mechanic.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

The land secured by chapter I guarantees a future turn where both landfall abilities trigger, creating an Elf and a 2/2 Bear from the same land; extra land drops multiply both token engines.

Troop of Ponies
Troop of PoniesEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Once the Saga has gained landfall, sacrificing Troop of Ponies puts a basic land directly onto the battlefield to create an Elf token while also supplying another land for a later land drop.

Elven Passage
Elven PassageDirect SynergyExplicit mechanical interaction between the two cards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Elven Passage fetches a basic directly onto the battlefield to trigger the Saga's landfall ability, and the Saga's Elf tokens make it easy to behold an Elf so that basic enters untapped.

Belladonna Took
Belladonna TookEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Each Elf token made by the Saga triggers Belladonna Took, and turns with multiple land entries can advance through her life, card-draw, and team-counter rewards in a single turn.

Mirkwood Nurturer
Mirkwood NurturerDirect SynergyExplicit mechanical interaction between the two cards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Mirkwood Nurturer can return Down in the Valley to hand so it can be replayed for another basic land and another sequence of token-making and Elf pumps; as an Elf, the Nurturer also receives the chapter III and IV bonuses.

Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and TendEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Till and Tend grants an additional land play, letting the land found by chapter I and another land each generate separate Elf tokens after the Saga gains landfall.

Hobbit Hole
Hobbit HoleEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Sacrificing Hobbit Hole puts a basic land directly onto the battlefield, producing an Elf token from the Saga without using the normal land play for the turn.

Synergy graph

Min strength
Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Galion, Elvenking's Butler Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Silvan Reveler Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Wood Elves ↔ Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing Combo · strength 3/3Wood Elves ↔ Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Combo · strength 3/3Wood Elves ↔ Mirkwood Pathmaker Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Wood Elves ↔ Galion, Elvenking's Butler Curve Synergy · strength 2/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Wood Elves Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Through the Forest Gate Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Through the Forest Gate Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Wood Elves Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Elven Raft-Steerer Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Wood Elves Archetype Synergy · strength 1/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing Combo · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Enabler → Payoff · strength 1/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Beorn's Hospitality Mechanic Synergy · strength 2/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing Combo · strength 3/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Cantankerous Keepers Tribal Synergy · strength 2/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Mirkwood Pathmaker Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing ↔ Beorn's Hospitality Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Cantankerous Keepers ↔ Wood Elves Curve Synergy · strength 3/3Cantankerous Keepers ↔ Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Belladonna Took ↔ Bard, King of Dale Combo · strength 3/3Woodland Weavemaster ↔ Wood Elves Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Woodland Weavemaster ↔ Cantankerous Keepers Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Wood Elves Combo · strength 3/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Silvan Reveler Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Dancing from Dark to Dawn Mechanic Synergy · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Woodland Weavemaster Combo · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Dancing from Dark to Dawn Mechanic Synergy · strength 2/3Galion, Elvenking's Butler ↔ Woodland Weavemaster Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Galion, Elvenking's Butler ↔ Dancing from Dark to Dawn Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing ↔ Dancing from Dark to Dawn Combo · strength 3/3Mirkwood Pathmaker ↔ Woodland Weavemaster Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend ↔ Beorn's Hospitality Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend ↔ Elven Raft-Steerer Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Hobbit Hole ↔ Beorn's Hospitality Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Hobbit Hole ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Hobbit Hole ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Mirkwood Nurturer ↔ Wood Elves Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Mirkwood Nurturer ↔ Silvan Reveler Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Mirkwood Nurturer ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally ↔ Elven Passage Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally ↔ Thranduil's Company Combo · strength 3/3Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally ↔ Wood Elves Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Elven Passage ↔ Beorn's Hospitality Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Troop of Ponies ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Elven Passage ↔ Elven Raft-Steerer Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Elven Passage ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Thranduil's Company ↔ Wood Elves Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Troop of Ponies ↔ Beorn's Hospitality Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Beorn's Hospitality ↔ Mirkwood Pathmaker Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Wood Elves ↔ Elven Passage Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Troop of Ponies Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Hobbit Hole Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Galion, Elvenking's Butler ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Galion, Elvenking's Butler ↔ Thranduil's Company Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Thranduil's Company Combo · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Mirkwood Nurturer Enabler → Payoff · strength 1/3Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Combo · strength 3/3Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing ↔ Thranduil's Company Combo · strength 3/3Mirkwood Pathmaker ↔ Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Elven Passage Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Mirkwood Pathmaker ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Archetype Synergy · strength 2/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Mirkwood Pathmaker ↔ Through the Forest Gate Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Mirkwood Pathmaker ↔ Troop of Ponies Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Mirkwood Pathmaker ↔ Thranduil's Company Combo · strength 3/3Silvan Reveler ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Woodland Weavemaster ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Combo · strength 3/3Woodland Weavemaster ↔ Dancing from Dark to Dawn Build-Around · strength 3/3Woodland Weavemaster ↔ Thranduil's Company Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Cantankerous Keepers ↔ Mirkwood Nurturer Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll ↔ Thranduil's Company Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Cantankerous Keepers ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend Combo · strength 3/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Elven Passage Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Hobbit Hole Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Mechanic Synergy · strength 3/3Through the Forest Gate ↔ Thranduil's Company Combo · strength 3/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Troop of Ponies Combo · strength 3/3Through the Forest Gate ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Combo · strength 3/3Bard, King of Dale ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Mirkwood Nurturer Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Thranduil's Company Mechanic Synergy · strength 3/3Through the Forest Gate ↔ Dancing from Dark to Dawn Combo · strength 3/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Belladonna Took Enabler → Payoff · strength 1/3Dancing from Dark to Dawn ↔ Bard, King of Dale Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Down in the Valley ↔ Cantankerous Keepers Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Down in the Valley ↔ Through the Forest Gate Combo · strength 3/3Down in the Valley ↔ Bard, King of Dale Direct Synergy · strength 3/3Down in the Valley ↔ Woodland Weavemaster Combo · strength 3/3Down in the Valley ↔ Thranduil's Company Combo · strength 3/3Down in the Valley ↔ Beorn's Hospitality Archetype Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Wood Elves Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Silvan Reveler Archetype Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Elven Raft-Steerer Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Galion, Elvenking's Butler Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing Combo · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Mirkwood Pathmaker Archetype Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally Mechanic Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Dancing from Dark to Dawn Mechanic Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Troop of Ponies Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Elven Passage Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Belladonna Took Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Mirkwood Nurturer Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Down in the Valley ↔ Hobbit Hole Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Down in the Valley (this card)
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