The Jeskai Ascendancy deck had to reliably chain together spells to be effective, and took the obvious approach of jamming the deck full of cantrips. What if there were an easier way?

Enter Life From the Loam.

Two Loams, or a Loam and a Flame Jab, combine with mana dorks or manlands to fill your hand with lands and loot toward a Seismic Assault/Flame Jab. Casting a Loam/Jab lets you return a Loam from your graveyard with the loot off Ascendancy, and net some number of lands to your hand.

If you don't assemble this combo (which is far easier than it might sound), the deck can just put together Loam + Assault for the kill, supplementing that with Faithless Lootings to dredge back multiple Loams.

The deck can afford to carry extra lands to support Seismic Assault since our Ascendancies don't need as much support as in the more traditional Ascendancy combo.”