EDH Inalla: Multi-Magician Madness

Commander / EDH Combo Control Infinite Combo Tribal UBR (Grixis) Wizards

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Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Windfall

Creature (19)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Beguiler of Wills
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Merchant of Secrets
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Instant (15)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turnabout

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study

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This is a wizards tribal deck which uses a variety of combos with wizards to do lots of crazy stuff. Many of the wizards have ETB triggers, which you can double by using Inalla's ability. Cards like Panharmonicon and Deadeye Navigator help trigger them even more. Other wizards focus on tap abilities, like Azami, Lady of Scrolls and Beguiler of Wills. By getting lots of wizards with Inalla, you can tap them for Azami. Paradox Engine can untap all your wizards to use again for tap abilities.

Custom Categories

• Land: All lands.
• Ramp: Non-land cards that either create mana or help cast things faster.
• Draw: Put more cards into your hand.
• Removal: Remove permanents from the battlefield.
• Counterspell: Directly counter spells on the stack.
• Tutor: Search for specific cards and put them into your hand or onto the battlefield.
• Retrieval: Return cards from the graveyard into your hand or onto the battlefield.
• ETBhelper: Enable more ETB effects.
• Combo: Specific cards mainly used as part of one or more combos.

Combos

Bloodline Necromancer + Ashnod's Altar + Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Cards Required: 3 (2 if commander is in command zone)

Card Combinations: Ashnod's Altar + Bloodline Necromancer + Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Steps:

1. Have Ashnod's Altar on the battlefield and Inalla either in your command zone or also on the battlefield.

2. Play Bloodline Necromancer, allowing it to enter the battlefield and trigger its own ETB effect as well as that of Inalla.

3. Sacrifice Bloodline Necromancer to Ashnod's Altar to get .

4. Pay for Inalla's trigger, creating a token of Bloodline Necromancer with haste. This triggers the ETB effect of the token.

5. Use the ETB trigger in step 4 to return the original Bloodline Necromancer to the battlefield, once again triggering the original's ETB effect and that of Inalla.

6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 several times to get infinite colorless mana (each iteration nets ) and infinite Bloodline Necromancer tokens with haste.

Result: Infinite colorless mana, infinite Bloodline Necromancer tokens with haste.

Notes:

• If you have other wizards in your graveyard, you can use the ETB of the original Bloodline Necromancer in steps 2 or 5 to retrieve them. You can then sacrifice the wizard you brought back to Ashnod's Altar before the next ETB trigger of the original Bloodline Necromancer when repeating steps 3 to 5. Thus, you can trigger the ETB effects of wizards on the field or in your graveyard infinitely many times.

• If no other wizards are accessible, you will likely win by attacking your opponents with a large number of tokens with haste.

• Remember that the tokens will be exiled on the next end step.

Dualcaster Mage + Rite of Replication

Cards Required: 2

Card Combinations: Dualcaster Mage + Rite of Replication

Steps:

1. Cast Rite of Replication, targeting some creature on the battlefield (target likely irrelevant).

2. Cast Dualcaster Mage in response and allow it enter the battlefield to trigger its ETB effect.

3. Use Dualcaster Mage's ETB to copy Rite of Replication. In this step, Dualcaster Mage may be the original or a token.

4. Using the copy of Rite of Replication from step 3, target Dualcaster Mage, creating a token of Dualcaster Mage and triggering the token's ETB effect.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 several times for infinite Dualcaster Mage tokens.

Result: Infinite Dualcaster Mage tokens.

Notes:

• Unlike tokens created by Inalla, these tokens won't have haste, but they won't be exiled at the end of the turn.

• You can initiate this combo when an opponent casts their own instant or sorcery that copies a creature. This is done by targeting their spell with Dualcaster Mage, and using copies of that spell to copy Dualcaster Mage as before.

• If more than one Dualcaster Mage enters after each token-creating spell resolves (for example, by kicking Rite of Replication), you can also copy all other creatures on the battlefield infinitely many times by using the extra Dualcaster Mages to copy the spell and target other creatures with the spell copies.

Dualcaster Mage + Ghostly Flicker

Cards Required: 2

Card Combinations: Dualcaster Mage + Ghostly Flicker

Steps:

1. Cast Ghostly Flicker (targets likely irrelevant).

2. Cast Dualcaster Mage in response and allow it enter the battlefield to trigger its ETB effect.

3. Use Dualcaster Mage's ETB trigger to copy Ghostly Flicker.

4. Using the copy of Ghostly Flicker from step 3, target Dualcaster Mage and any other creature or land you control.

5. If you successfully blink a land, tap that land for mana.

6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 several times.

Result: Infinite mana, infinite creature ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers, infinite wizard tokens (likely Dualcaster Mages) with haste, win game (see additional notes).

Notes:

• Results may vary depending on your board state, but very likely you'll be able to win using infinite mana, infinite Dualcaster Mage tokens, and Inalla's activated ability. Optional steps are required to do so.

• When blinking a land during this combo, don't choose a land that comes in tapped or costs life to use if you want infinite mana. The type of mana you can generate is limited by the lands you can blink to "untap".

• If you opponent casts Ghostly Flicker on their own cards, you can initiate this combo by playing your Dualcaster Mage to copy their Ghostly Flicker. Though you won't be able to cast Inalla and will likely lose the tokens if it isn't your turn.

Dualcaster Mage + Deadeye + Turnabout

Cards Required: 3 (not including lands to tap for mana; see combinations)

Card Combinations: Deadeye Navigator + Dualcaster Mage + Turnabout + lands that tap for (total: ) or more

Steps:

1. Have all permanents from a single combo on the field, making sure to pair Deadeye Navigator with Dualcaster Mage.

2. Tap all lands that you expect to untap with Turnabout for mana. Avoid tapping lands that cost life to tap.

3. Cast Turnabout, selecting the mode to untap your lands.

4. Blink Dualcaster Mage using the activated ability given by Deadeye Navigator, triggering Dualcaster Mage's ETB effect.

5. Make sure to re-pair Deadeye Navigator with Dualcaster Mage.

6. Use Dualcaster Mage's ETB trigger to copy Turnabout.

7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 several times for potentially infinite mana, and infinitely many ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers.

Result: Infinite mana, infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers, infinite wizard tokens (likely Dualcaster Mages) with haste, win game (see additional notes).

Notes:

• To get infinite mana, you need to have lands that tap for more than the minimum required mana listed in each combo.

• Infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers are relevant for cards like Kindred Discovery and Vela the Night-Clad.

Dualcaster Mage + Riptide + Turnabout

Cards Required: 3 (not including lands to tap for mana; see combinations)

Card Combinations: Dualcaster Mage + Riptide Laboratory + Turnabout + lands that tap for (total: ) or more

Steps:

1. Tap all lands that you expect to untap with Turnabout for mana. Avoid tapping lands that cost life to tap.

2. Cast Turnabout, selecting the mode to untap your lands.

3. Cast Dualcaster Mage in response and allow it enter the battlefield to trigger its ETB effect.

4. Use Dualcaster Mage's ETB trigger to copy Turnabout, and allow the copy to resolve.

5. Use Riptide Laboratory to return Dualcaster Mage.

6. Repeat steps 2 to 5 several times for potentially infinite mana, and infinitely many ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers.

Result: Infinite mana, infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers, infinite wizard tokens (likely Dualcaster Mages) with haste, win game (see additional notes).

Notes:

• To get infinite mana, you need to have lands that tap for more than the minimum required mana listed in each combo.

• Infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers are relevant for cards like Kindred Discovery and Vela the Night-Clad.

• A similar combo may be possible using Crystal Shard instead of Riptide Laboratory, but it would require you to have enough artifacts that tap for the required mana instead of enough lands, and to untap artifacts using Turnabout instead of lands. This is probably harder to do.

Return-Spell Wizard + Deadeye + Turnabout

Cards Required: 3 (not including lands to tap for mana; see combinations)

Card Combinations:

• Archaeomancer + Deadeye Navigator + Turnabout + lands that tap for (total: ) or more

• Deadeye Navigator + Izzet Chronarch + Turnabout + lands that tap for (total: ) or more

Steps:

1. Have all permanents from a single combo on the field, making sure to pair Deadeye Navigator with the "return-spell wizard" (i.e. Archaeomancer or Izzet Chronarch).

2. Tap all lands that you expect to untap with Turnabout for mana. Avoid tapping lands that cost life to tap.

3. Cast Turnabout, allowing it to untap your lands and go to the graveyard.

4. Use the activated ability Deadeye Navigator gave to the return-spell wizard to blink the wizard, triggering its ETB effect.

5. Make sure to re-pair Deadeye Navigator with the wizard you blinked.

6. Use the wizard's ETB trigger to return Turnabout to your hand.

7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 several times for potentially infinite mana, and infinitely many ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers.

Result: Infinite mana, infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers, infinite wizard tokens (likely Archaeomancers or Izzet Chronarchs) with haste, win game (see additional notes).

Notes:

• To get infinite mana, you need to have lands that tap for more than the minimum required mana listed in each combo.

• Infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers are relevant for cards like Kindred Discovery and Vela the Night-Clad.

Return-Spell Wizard + Riptide + Turnabout

Cards Required: 3 (not including lands to tap for mana; see combinations)

Card Combinations:

• Archaeomancer + Riptide Laboratory + Turnabout + lands that tap for (total: ) or more

• Izzet Chronarch + Riptide Laboratory + Turnabout + lands that tap for (total: ) or more

Steps:

1. Have all permanents from a single combo on the field.

2. Tap all lands that you expect to untap with Turnabout for mana. Avoid tapping lands that cost life to tap.

3. Cast Turnabout, allowing it to untap your lands and go to the graveyard.

4. Use Riptide Laboratory to return the "return-spell wizard" (i.e. Archaeomancer or Izzet Chronarch) to your hand.

5. Cast the return-spell wizard, allowing it to enter the battlefield and trigger its ETB effect.

6. Use the wizard's ETB trigger to return Turnabout to your hand.

7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 several times for potentially infinite mana, and infinitely many ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers.

Result: Infinite mana, infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers, infinite wizard tokens (likely Archaeomancers or Izzet Chronarchs) with haste, win game (see additional notes).

Notes:

• To get infinite mana, you need to have lands that tap for more than the minimum required mana listed in each combo.

• Infinite ETB and leaves the battlefield triggers are relevant for cards like Kindred Discovery and Vela the Night-Clad.

• A similar combo may be possible using Crystal Shard instead of Riptide Laboratory, but it would require you to have enough artifacts that tap for the required mana instead of enough lands, and to untap artifacts using Turnabout instead of lands. This is probably harder to do.

Return-Spell Wizard + Deadeye + Time Warp

Cards Required: 3

Card Combinations:

• Archaeomancer + Deadeye Navigator + Time Warp

• Deadeye Navigator + Izzet Chronarch + Time Warp

Steps:

1. Have all permanents from a single combo on the field, making sure to pair Deadeye Navigator with the "return-spell wizard" (i.e. Archaeomancer or Izzet Chronarch).

2. Cast Time Warp to take an extra turn and have the spell go to the graveyard.

3. Use the activated ability Deadeye Navigator gave to the return-spell wizard to blink the wizard, triggering its ETB effect.

4. Make sure to re-pair Deadeye Navigator with the wizard you blinked.

5. Use the wizard's ETB trigger to return Time Warp to your hand.

6. Proceed to your extra turn.

7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 several times for infinite turns.

Result: Infinite turns.

Return-Spell Wizard + Conjurer's Closet + Time Warp

Cards Required: 3

Card Combinations:

• Archaeomancer + Conjurer's Closet + Time Warp

• Conjurer's Closet + Izzet Chronarch + Time Warp

Steps:

1. Have all permanents from a single combo on the field.

2. Cast Time Warp to take an extra turn and have the spell go to the graveyard.

3. Proceed to the end step, triggering Conjurer's Closet.

4. Use the end step trigger of Conjurer's Closet to blink the "return-spell wizard" (i.e. Archaeomancer or Izzet Chronarch), triggering its ETB effect.

5. Use the wizard's ETB trigger to return Time Warp to your hand.

6. Proceed to your extra turn.

7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 several times for infinite turns.

Result: Infinite turns.

Return-Spell Wizard + Return wizard to hand + Time Warp

Cards Required: 3

Card Combinations:

• Archaeomancer + Riptide Laboratory + Time Warp

• Izzet Chronarch + Riptide Laboratory + Time Warp

• Archaeomancer + Crystal Shard + Time Warp

• Crystal Shard + Izzet Chronarch + Time Warp

Steps:

1. Have all permanents from a single combo on the field.

2. Cast Time Warp to take an extra turn and have the spell go to the graveyard.

3. Use Riptide Laboratory or Crystal Shard to return the "return-spell wizard" (i.e. Archaeomancer or Izzet Chronarch) to your hand.

4. Cast the return-spell wizard, allowing it to enter the battlefield and trigger its ETB effect.

5. Use the wizard's ETB trigger to return Time Warp to your hand.

6. Proceed to your extra turn.

7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 several times for infinite turns.

Result: Infinite turns.

Vela + Rite of Replication

Cards Required: 2

Card Combinations: Rite of Replication + Vela the Night-Clad

Steps:

1. Have Vela the Night-Clad on the battlefield.

2. Cast Rite of Replication kicked, targeting Vela the Night-Clad.

3. When the spell resolves, it will create 5 copies of Vela the Night-Clad. This would put a total of 6 Vela the Night-Clads onto the battlefield, so the legend rule would require 5 of them to be destroyed (shouldn't matter which 5). Each creature destroyed will trigger the leaves the battlefield effect of all 6 Vela the Night-Clads because the 5 are destroyed simultaneously.

Result: Each opponent loses 30 life.

Additional Notes

When one of these combos gives you infinite mana and involves making a wizard creature enter the battlefield several times, you should be able to win the game if Inalla can be put onto the battlefield. Below are the steps to follow during and after the combo:

1. Have Inalla in the command zone or on your side of the battlefield.

2. Initiate the appropriate combo.

3. When a wizard enters the battlefield for a cycle in the combo, this triggers Inalla's ETB effect. Pay to create a token of the wizard with haste.

4. If Inalla is still in your command zone, end the combo with enough mana to cast her, and cast her.

5. Use Inalla's activated ability to make a player lose 7 life an infinite number of times by tapping the infinitely-many wizard tokens.

6. Alternatively, if you are unable to cast Inalla, use the infinitely-many wizard tokens with haste to attack each opponent and win (if possible, of course).

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Dualcaster Mage + Ghostly Flicker Rite of Replication + Vela the Night-Clad Dualcaster Mage + Rite of Replication Archaeomancer + Riptide Laboratory + Time Warp Archaeomancer + Deadeye Navigator + Turnabout Deadeye Navigator + Izzet Chronarch + Turnabout Ashnod's Altar + Bloodline Necromancer + Inalla, Archmage Ritualist Archaeomancer + Deadeye Navigator + Time Warp Archaeomancer + Conjurer's Closet + Time Warp Archaeomancer + Riptide Laboratory + Turnabout Deadeye Navigator + Izzet Chronarch + Time Warp Izzet Chronarch + Riptide Laboratory + Time Warp Izzet Chronarch + Riptide Laboratory + Turnabout Deadeye Navigator + Dualcaster Mage + Turnabout Dualcaster Mage + Riptide Laboratory + Turnabout Conjurer's Closet + Izzet Chronarch + Time Warp Archaeomancer + Crystal Shard + Time Warp Crystal Shard + Izzet Chronarch + Time Warp
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone
Folders	Combo