Accidental infinite combo.
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on May 20, 2016, 10:32 p.m. by PhotogenicParasympathetic
So I was playing yesterday, and my friend Kate is playing her Savra, Queen of the Golgari build. She's got Phyrexian Altar on the battlefield, as well as Sidisi, Undead Vizier and a Mitotic Slime. I hear her say, "Huh," under her breath, then she sacrifices both creatures to the altar for 2 mana. She then sacs both of Slime's tokens for 2 more mana. Then she sacs two of the resulting 4 tokens, bringing her up to 6 mana, which she uses to cast Ever After. It returns Sidisi and the Slime, Sidisi sacrifices another token to tutor up Ever After. She can now repeat the process, netting one 1/1 slime every time. She can also sac those 1/1's for any color mana.
But wait! There's more.
With this infinite mana, she can use Sidisi to tutor up Rune-Scarred Demon instead of Ever After, then cast the demon to get Ever After and continue the cycle, only now she can resurrect the demon and Sidisi at the same time (for as long as she has infinite 1/1's to sac for mana) to tutor any/every card she has in the deck and play it. In this case, she just cast Savra, then got Woodfall Primus and killed every thing we owned. While also gaining infinite life and making us sac all our creatures.
And it turns out, this combo is actually fairly resilient- exile Sidisi or Rune-scarred demon, and Increasing Ambition can still find Woodfall Primus and Ever After. Exile both tutor creatures? Just use Eternal Witness and any tutor spell. Woodfall Primus is gone? She'll just get Nezumi Graverobber and resurrect all your creatures to fight for her. Got rid of Ever After? Victimize works too, but only with EWit, and only gets everything out of her graveyard. And of course, killing any of these creatures doesn't stop the combo- they have to be exiled, or shuffled away.
The only irreplaceable parts are Phyrexian Altar and Mitotic Slime. Does anyone know any possible alternatives to put in?
iBleedPunk says... #3
That's pretty damn cool man. Unintentional infinite combos are my favorite combos
May 20, 2016 11:15 p.m.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #4
I DO!!! I tried to break Ever After when I got one at prerelease. Priest of Gix will make infinite mana on its own with Ashnod's Altar & Rune-Scarred Demon/Sidisi, Undead Vizier bit. No need for all those pesky tokens. Phyrexian Altar will get you there, provided you run the tokens & Parallel Lives/Doubling Season. Brood Monitor too.
May 20, 2016 11:22 p.m.
griffstick says... #6
I thought of an infinite combo. Just never pulled it off.
I had Mortuary, Harvester of Souls, and Deathrender in play. And that's when the infinite combos idea's all came at once. Just add any sac outlet like Ashnod's Altar and any etb creature like Gray Merchant of Asphodel...
With all the pieces in play and Gray Merchant of Asphodel equipped to Deathrender just sac him to Ashnod's Altar and the triggers stack. Mortuary puts it on the library, Harvester of Souls let's you draw it, Deathrender puts it back into play...
May 21, 2016 11:09 p.m.
MonoGreenKing says... #7
It is really something when accidentlly find an infinite combo for the first time.
MindAblaze says... #2
Lol. Love it.
May 20, 2016 11:10 p.m.