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Commander / EDH gildan_bladeborn

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I learned something new about my deck recently... —Nov. 19, 2016

The release of Commander 2016 was mostly uneventful for me, though I did switch out a couple of cards; the one that made it into this particular deck is the new Stonehoof Chieftain, which replaced one of my pet cards I probably shouldn't have kept around as long as I did, Liege of the Tangle. What I didn't learn until this past Thursday (when I first got to play the deck after making that change) though was that my deck had actually contained a 3-card "infinite combo" for a while now without me realizing it.

In my defense, it was a 3-card combo that would almost never actually work because one of the moving parts involves repeatedly attacking with a 2/2 (Radha, Heir to Keld), but it turns out when I have her in play along with Hellkite Charger and Savage Ventmaw, the upper limit of "however many untapped mana sources I have" that previously determined how many combat phases I could have in a single turn becomes "however many times I want, provided I can keep attacking with a 2/2 each of those times". And that's where the new Stonehoof Chieftain comes in - if I somehow manage to get it into play with the other 3 cards (which is in fact what happened and why I know about this now), the infinite combo I didn't know I had actually works.

I generally try to avoid that sort of thing, but I think a 4-card "answer it or I win now" combo in a deck with literally no way to search for any of the components is probably fine as a "Magical Christmas land" win condition.