As long as you have a basic land in play alongside these cards, you can draw your deck by pulling off these steps: Pay one mana to return a basic land to your hand with Trade Routes Pay one mana to discard it to Trade Routes, drawing a card and triggering Surly Badgersaur and Bone Miser Add two black mana to your mana pool and create a Treasure token Sacrifice the Treasure for green mana, and use that mana and one of the floating black mana to return the basic land from your graveyard to your hand with Groundskeeper Use the final floating black mana discard the basic land to Trade Routes, and repeat the final three steps as many times as you wish More than Meets the Eye Once you add together all of the different avenues you can take to maximize Trade Routes, its easy to see why the enchantment has more potential than some players may give it credit for
They are often heavily related, but a high price does not always guarantee a high value and vice versa
Of all Magic's colors, black mana has the easiest time killing things
Sapphire Steel is built around the Hero synergy, one I actually think has potential, but more in the Amber Steel deck
This is very different from most combo decks of old in Modern, but things like this are what you have to do in the format to succeed with combo, outside of the aforementioned Living End builds
