Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Summon — , : Return target Saga card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
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.
Free, repeatable card filtering on every land drop fixes draws and binning Sagas you want to reanimate.
Summon turns the graveyard into a toolbox, replaying Sagas from chapter I for fresh ETB/chapter value.
Haste matters for creature-Sagas (those that flip into bodies) and lets reanimated threats attack immediately.
Cheap two-mana commander that's hard to answer profitably and reloads fast off the command zone.
Heavily reliant on a stocked graveyard, so graveyard hate (Bojuka Bog, Rest in Peace) is crippling.
Finality counters mean each Saga can only be Summoned once, capping long-game recursion loops.
Summon's cost competes with mana for ramp and land drops, making big Sagas slow to redeploy.
GR lacks strong interaction; you can struggle against fast combo and resilient control.
A backup graveyard engine and emergency recursion that complements Summon's Saga reanimation.
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.
Legendary Creature — Human Shaman
Summon activations.
: Return target Saga card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.