Mufasa O if you like good editing, check out the Command Zone Podcast's series Game Knights if you haven't already! Beautiful animations and easy-to-follow games of (usually) Commander. They are definitely longer videos, though, if that's not your forté
YES!!! Also...The Command Zone people should be hired by WotC to do the graphics for the Pro Tour and GP broadcasts. Buy Josh and Jimmy a team and see MtG become as popular as Hearthstone.
Hutman50 Yes! I love them. I'm still waiting for their GameKnights with JumboCommander. In my opinion, I'm sad they're supporting Brawl, it's just a money grab that most likely won't be a gateway format to EDH. But I've come to hate Josh Lee Kwai. I used to be able to withstand him, but he's just so narcissistic and overly critical. Jimmy Wong is fine tho, I love him. He's in touch with his family, invited his mom to his little cooking show on youtube, is interested in film (I think he used to be an actor, now he directs The Command Zone as his film project - and look how good it turned out), plus he's just adorable and his smiles seem genuine. Rock on, Jimmy Wong.
This is really cool, also the sweet animations, I love them, this way to show triggers and effect should be on the digital games instead of taking a lot of the screen
You know what makes this one even better? In response to an Abrade, flash in Raff Capashen and continue the loop for infinite life, draw into counterspell. counter abrade.
One bonus with this. You can play this as a backup in an aggressive construct build. With Champion of the Foundry, Metallic Mimic, Scrapheap Scroungers, Ballista, and even Sparring Construct, you can go fairly aggro with constructs and be unafraid of sweepers. Phyrexian scriptures becomes a 1 sided wrath. Teshar and Scrap trawler both lead to ridiculous loops, getting value while you keep the pressure on, until a yahenni can throw an infinite loop in there somewhere, without even having to break stride. Also foudnry inspector and vanquisher's banner can do a fun bit of work. The loop here is usually yahenni, teshar, scrap trawler, mimic set to construct and ballista. (but there are so many more without goign out of your way). Only issue is that there's alot of sideboard grave hate targeting GPG and Scarab God
It's not a standard combo however astral cornucopia clockspinning and paradox engine work really well together infinite mana. Can boost any plainswalker to Max right when you drop it, you can boost lots of artifacts as well.
I feel like Aetherflux Reservoir would be an easier win condition than adding the extra step of infinite mana. The ballista is still useful as a utility creature to remove creatures. You could also include Ornithopter as another 0 cost historic card, since the sacrifice outlet is already there.
S Clever the aetherflux is an otherwise useless card outside of the combo. All of the other cards have use outside of the combo which is what makes a good combo deck work
Since scrap trawler counts as a historic spell, when you first initiate it into the combo, you bring back walking ballista to the battlefield before the trawler resolves. Since the power and toughness would equal 0, it dies and goes to the graveyard and you gain one extra life off of the gate to the afterlife. After that happens, scrap trawler resolves and then you can initiate the combo. This is just one tiny thing that was overlooked in the video that only applies before the combo starts.
Yargle + fling + Insult // Injury Those three cards represent exactly 20 damage to the opponent's face and 2 to a creature. 29 to face if you get in for Yargle beats.
I actually discovered an easier infinite combo in standard. First forum I'm sharing it with. Haven't built a deck yet. But the combo goes like this. You need Teshar Ancestors Apostle, diligent excavator, restoration specialist and a mox amber on the battlefield, with another mox amber in hand. You tap the mox for W, then cast the one from hand. The legend rule will sacrifice the tapped mox. You use the floating white mana to activate restoration specialist. Returning the mox in your graveyard to your hand. You tap the mox on the battlefield for W, and cast the mox in hand. This will trigger Teshar, allowing you to put restoration specialist back on the battlefield, which can then be saccd again be with the floating W. You can do this an infinite number of times. Every time you cast the mox, the diligent excavator mills you opponent for two until they're decked. Alternatively, you can use the trigger from cabal paladin to deal infinite damage, but he costs 2 more to cast than excavator.
I made a Red/White Combo of Reckless Fireweaver, Ravenous Intruder, Teshar, Ballista, Trawler combo. Either ping opponent every time ballista and trawler come back into play with the sac ability from intruder, or just build a big intruder. I also have in my deck the Combat Celebrant/Helm of the Host combo which also helps with swinging with that big Intruder.
Teshar with fireweaver in play, 2 moxs in hand and restoration specialist in play. Play a mox tap if for one white play 2nd mox sac the first due to the legendary rule. then sac specialist with the one white, return the mox from the graveyard to hand. Tap in play mox for white, Play the mox in your hand,return specialist to battlefield due to teshar ability . Repeat forever, do 1 damage to your opponent per mox cast due to fireweaver. Enjoy.
Evra, halcyon witness +Fling. Swap your life total with evra's power to get a 20/4 then Fling it at your opponent for a fast win if you can ramp into it.
An infinite turn with planar Bridge and timestream navigator. Keep tapping timestream for an extra turn and then use planar Bridge to search out timestream. End your turn to have an additional and repeat
Evra, Halcyon Witness with anything that boosts her power will, eventually, grant you infinite life. At four mana a cycle. You can do it in Standard with Dub, Short Sword, etc. You swap your life with her CURRENT power. Base is 4, and with a Jousting Lance she gets +2. So, 6. Your life becomes 6 and her base power becomes your life, which is then increased by 2 because of the Jousting lance. Swap it again, and her base power becomes 6 (assuming nothing happened) and your life becomes whatever it was a moment ago +2. Use an infinite mana combo in Modern and Fling her at your opponent for 10mil.
naru meha and release to the wind = infinite cast triggers bontu's monument = infinite drain with raff capashen you can combo off at instant speed works best in a control shell. have one many fnm's with it.
Okay, so you have Forerunner of the Coalition and Hostage Taker in your hand. Play Forerunner, and tutor up a second Hostage Taker. This second one will be out on top of your library. For convenience, we will label them Hostage Taker 1 and 2. Next turn, draw Hostage Taker #2. Play either one, but again, for convenience, play #1. Each opponent loses 1 life. Then, exile Forerunner. This will discourage your opponent from blowing up Hostage Taker #1. Then, play Hostage Taker #2. Exile Hostage Taker #1. Forerunner re-enters the battlefield. Tutor up Hostage Taker #3. Next turn, draw Hostage Taker #3. Play Hostage Taker #3, exiling Hostage Taker #2. Each opponent loses 1. Hostage Taker #1 re-enters, exiling Hostage Taker #3, each opponent loses 1. Hostage Taker #2 re-enters, exiling Hostage Taker #1, each opponent loses 1. Hostage Taker #3 re-enters, exiling Hostage Taker #2, each opponent loses 1. And repeat. Forever.
Ok, so my favorite combo is more of a group of cards. It involves having Brisela, Voice of Nightmares, Archtype of Endurance, Avacyn Angel of Hope, and Sigarda, Herons Grace. Not to mention Sunblast Angel and Subjugator Angel.
I found a killer combo it's the Exert Mythic from Amonkhet that whenever you exert him you get an extra attack phase and then attach the new equipment that copies the equipped creature during each of your combats so boom not only infinite combat steps but infinite exert kings all hail the God Pharaoh
like the deck, i already had a mardu version built using cathartic reunion and ravenous intruder over the blue pieces the combo was easier because i had better sac outlets and ran cut/ribbons for infinite drain. but i like the blue use of trophy mage much more thankyou
Siren's Ruse on the stack + Naru Meha, Master Wizard = Infinite ETB triggers. Sire's Ruse on the stack + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + (Naban, Dean of Iteration or Panharmonicon) = Infinite ETB triggers + Infinite copies of any other instant or sorcery you control that's on the stack. Wispweaver Angel + ((Protean Raider + having attacked that turn) or Vizier of Many Faces or second Wispweaver Angel) + Panharmonicon = Infinite ETB triggers for all creatures you control. (Doesn't actually require Dominaria funnily enough.) Blackblade Reforged + Marwyn, the Nurturer + (Saheeli's Artistery or Saheeli Rai) + Cogwork Assembler + 10 lands = Infinite mana + Infinite hasty token copies of artifacts. Lich's Mastery + Faith of the Devoted + Gaea's Blessing x2 = Infinite combo for the New Perspectives cycling deck. Most likely of these combos to actually be useful. Muldrotha, the Gravetide x2 + Liliana, Death's Majesty x2 + Universal Solvent + Quarry Beetle + (Guardians of Koilos or Oath of Teferi) + Cabal Stronghold + Sac creature outlet + 22 swamps = Infinite basically whatever you want. ...I can probably come up with more, but these are the silliest ones I could come up with off the top of my head.
Yeah, I had to think about that one for a sec too. I was all like "is Bontu's a cast trigger?" In the vein of specifically Teshar Related Combos: Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle + Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Wispweaver Angel + Hope of Ghirapur + Mox Amber x2 + Protean Raider x2 + Having attacked that turn + Skirk Prospector = Infinite practically everything.
This is a more recent combo that I want to build a deck around. You need Drowned Secrets, Diligent Excavator, Naru Meha, Master Wizard, and Return to the Wind. You want as many copies of both Drowned Secrets and Diligent Excavator in play as possible. Cast Return to the wind targeting an nonland permanent you control. Secrets triggers because you cast a blue spell. Then before you let that trigger resolve and mill your opponent for two, you flash in Naru Meha. Secrets triggers because Naru Meha is blue, and Excavator triggers because Naru Meha is historic. Naru Meha copies Return to the Wind. That copy of the spell is now on top of the stack. The copy resolves first, and Naru Meha is exiled. Now you can cast Naru Meha again without paying it's mana cost. Continue flash casting Naru Meha for as many mill triggers as you need to mill your opponent out.
That combo may look nice but i guess takes just too many pieces to be playable in competitive standard. I'd prefer playing squee the immortal + Hazoret's Monument and Paradox Engine combined with some mana stones like manalith, pillar of origins and gilded lotus. You can get a high amount of mana and the monument lets you dig for the win condition and it only takes 3 pieces since the other relevant cards are incorporated in a higher amount. The best suggestion i've read here so far is helmm of the host + combat celebrant. Easy to find, protect and execute.
I found an infinite combo using Whisper, Blood Liturgist, it isn't standard though. It requires 4 cards to work: Whisper, Blood Liturgist Thornbite Staff Golgari Germination (or similar) Falkenrath Noble (or similar) You start the combo with all the cards in play along with any other creature, Thornbite Staff equipped to Whisper. Tap whisper and choose to sacrifice Fallenrath and the other creature, sacrificing these creatures will cause whisper to untap, thanks to the staff, and create at least 1 saproling token. After all these triggers resolve, return Falkenrath to the battlefield with the rest of the now paid whisper ability. Now you're back where you started but with a saproling and Falkenrath in play, your opponent down 1 life and you up 1 life. Repeat this process sacrificing the saproling and falkenrath as many times as you want. This combo can be set up from a single Diabolic Tutor if you have an Eternal Witness. Tutor for the witness and play the witness to return tutor. Next tutor for Whisper, play it, then sacrifice a creature and the witness to return the witness, which will return the tutor. Tutor for the rest of the peices in this or a better way.
Jhoira and raff capashen in an affinity deck for modern, it looks so insane, casting all artifacts like they had flash and draws a card for each, with the inclusion of mox Amber as well
Too bad every deck in standard is running Abrade or naturalize etc right now. this would be so painful to play when they are already going to blow up gate to the after life thinking you're some sort of jank GPG deck.
But.....you're playing Scrap trawler. Thanks to it and Teshar you're pretty damn resilient to most artifact hate, only hard removal on Teshar herself is something to worry about. You could splash a tiny bit of control blue in there to stave off the few spells that will hard screw you by killing teshar, let their artifact hate run rampent cuz every artifact is a rez spell essentially, and you might have something here.
novar trollmage of the digital arts not sure what you've played against in your local meta, but everything I see at FNM plays artifact/enchantment hate now. The most dominant decks in standard (currently) nearly all run red or green removal. UR GPG, mono red, RB aggro, mardu vehicles, GB snake, etc. now that UR GPG is such a strong deck against almost any match up, expect even more main board hate than normal.
turn 5-6 infinite damage. Cards rquired: Karn, Scion of Urza, Mishra's self replicator, and cheap historical spells, preferably artifacts Step 1: Play Mishra's Self Replicator Step 2: Play Karn and pay the 1 mana to duplicate MSR Step 3: use Karn's third ability "Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." pay the 1 mana for each Mishra's Self Replicator duplication Step 4: Play cheap artifacts, paying 1 extra mana each per Mishra's Self Replicator Step 5: ??? Step 6: a 20+20+ colorless construct and 20+ Mishra's Self Replicators If you combine this with the infinite mana shown in the video, you're practically unstoppable
I want to try Jhoira Cheerios in modern. I know Sram Cheerios is better, but you could use Jhoira and mox amber to pull off the combo, so it's a lot cheaper than the Sram version
I have an infinite combo that either wins or can give you a lot of 3/3 Dino’s First you need a forerunner of the empire on the field and along with a frilled deathspitter, then you need a heroic intervention and raptor hatching In the hand First play hatchling then the intervention, the hatchling will trigger forerunner dealing one damage to everything on the board this makes a 3/3 from raptor hatchling and deals 2 damage to your opponents from the death spitter, now the 3/3 triggers forerunner and as everything is indestructible you can just machine gun down opponents
Wait, when you cast Scrap Trawler, it's an artifact, therefore it's historic, so Teshar triggers, returning Walking Ballista to the battlefield, assuming it's the only creature card with CMC 3 or less in graveyard. Not really a problem, since Ballista will die immediately, gaining you 1 life, then you sacrifice Scrap Trawler, returning Ballista to hand, gaining you 1 life. Just an extra step you missed. You actually gain 2 life each time you complete the combo.
Technically each time you cast Scrap Trawler, you bring Walking Ballista back to the battlefield as a 0/0 that dies immediately. This won't do anything aside from gain you an extra life for each time you cast Scrap Trawler. The Teshar ability is mandatory, so you have an extra step to do by bringing out Walking Ballista that just dies immediately to gain you more life.
If you play makeshift munitions, you can actually infinite shoot them another way instead of ballista infinite mana, play the mox to recur trawler, sac trawler paying the 1 off the mox to shoot and get mox back to hand loop.....
So i decided that brawl would be way too easy to make a combo at since you can bank one legendary creature at all times, so i put sram, senior artificer and some zero cmc equipments, and i drew into about half my deck. Just sucks when someone plays Consulate Crackdown.
Megrim Liliana's caress Raiders wake Damnable pact dark deal And liliana vess Liliana vess to tutor out the first three onto your field (i know it goes to top of library, thats not a big deal) once you have all three, you can pump liliana to force a discard, dealing 6 damage in the process. Tutor out dark deal or damnable pact, pay high x on pact to force your opponent to over draw. With all three on the field provided they don't have a destroy enchantment. If they discard 4 cards its game over, or, play dark deal to force a hand discard, and if that dosnt kill them, pump liliana for that last card yoh need.
Elliott Canada thanks, I understood it now, I just lagged because he didn't reanimate and then auto-kill the Ballista so I thought he'd messed up hahaha :-D
I found a busted combo LITERALLY AT the pre release this morning. I had a flil rare merfolk that allowed me to gain 1 life and to draw a card per each land I put on the field. I had a scout that allowed me to play a land from my hand. And a sorcery card in my hand with ash in the name. Kick it and I now had 2 land on the field and was able to draw two cards and gain 2 life. My deck was all about pumping mana and getting all my high powered monster and spells out there like In Bolus Clutches, Karn's summit, and 3 other cards that coated 6 mana to summon literally on that turn. And they couldn't kill my Merfolk because I gave it a legendary dagger that gave her a +1/+1 per every land on the battlefield. Most of my cards gain power pet each land on field and graveyard and I was running a blue, green deck with a dash of black and white. I LOST MY ROUNDS BUCAUSE OF MY STUPID ACTIONS..... owo
If you want to introduce this to a video.... Please say that Levion introduced the basics to you when you can do tweaks and whatever (i just want someone to know that this idea wasn't just you ;-;)
Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Llanowar Scout + Grow From The Ashes + Blackblade Reforged Was no one running Eviscerate? Or did you just have enough huge creatures to cast off the lands you're left with, and also not die to aggo/tempo?
The reason why he uses Walking Ballista is because Walking Ballista is also used at the end of the combo to hit the opponent's face for absurd amounts of damage. If you're talking about the part where he brings back defiant salvager, then yes any 0 cost artifact creature would suffice. It has already been pointed out that this combo as it is shown is suboptimal at best. The suggestion of Bontu's Monument for example means that you don't need Ballista in particular. You just do the first part of the shown combo any number of times and win the game.
Why not just use the 1/1 construct that adds a +1 counter and put on unblockable Relic Runner… your version seems needlessly complicated. If you have that Jhoira’s Familiar in play the construct is free to cast.
You dont need Defiant Salvager, if you are looping through the deck you can just get a second mox amber and legend rule them instead of having a non-legendary sac outlet.
Gate to the afterlife is also strictly worse than just playing metallic mimic, a card that Teshar can bring back too. You can win with 6 mana on an empty board. Cast Teshar, Cast Mimic(call Construct), Return Yaheeni. Cast Ballista(0), Return Scrap Trawler. Ballista comes into play as a 1/1 thanks to mimic. Ping for 1. Sac Mimic, Return Ballista to hand. Cast Ballista(0) Return Mimic, Ballista ETBs as 1/1. Repeat.
Have a Teshar on the battlefield - Don't need to explain this one Have an Atzocan Seer, on the battlefield or in the graveyard - 1GW for a 2/3 manadork with "Sacrifice Atzocan Seer: return target Dinosaur card from your graveyard to your hand" Have three (possibly less) Flings in hand - 1R for an instant that says "As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target." Have enough lands on the battlefield to produce at least 11 mana, and finally: Have Zacama, Primal Calamity in hand - 6RGW for 9/9 legendary elder dinosaur with vigilance, reach, trample, and a whole lot of great abilities, but what we care about: "When Zacama, Primal Calamity enters the battlefield, if you cast it, untap all lands you control." The loop is pretty simple: Tap all your lands (11+ mana floating), cast Zacama (2+ mana floating), Teshar returns Atzocan Seer to the battlefield (since Zacama is legendary, therefore historic), Zacama untaps all your lands, use two of the floating mana you have to sacrifice Zacama to Fling, then when he hits the graveyard, sacrifice Atzocan Seer to return Zacama to our hand and start over again. I think you will run into problems if you try to make a deck around this combo, though, because you need to both ramp into at least 10 mana, AND find your six piece combo, AND you mana base needs to support three colours (if not more), AND every card in your combo is really vulnerable to removal/counterspells, so good luck trying to do this into open mana. The best approach to this, I think, is to try to build a two colour (green-something) ramp deck that tries to put down big beater after big beater to win, and then splash the third colour to have this as a secondary win condition. Zacama fits that kind of deck nicely, as does Fling, and Atzocan Seer is not even THAT bad (though it is still bad, especially if most of your beaters aren't even dinosaurs). Instead of Fling, you could technically use Temple of Aclazotz (the land you get from transforming Arguel's Blood Fast that reads "Tap, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.") to sacrifice Zacama, netting you not only infinite life but also infinite mana, which you can then use for your win condition of choice. Another good option is Makeshift Munitions, a two mana red enchantment that reads: "(1), Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Makeshift Munitions deals 1 damage to any target.". Both these options really only require you to have 10 lands - 1 less than the one I used, which can make a difference in a combo build of the deck.
Hey, here is a really stupid infinite life combo using standard, I haven’t got it to work personally but a better player probably can, bonus, it uses squee. So you will be playing red green, you need access to two squees, so one in hand one in grave or any combo of that kind, a goblin warchief giving goblins haste and making them cost 1 less, aetherflux reservoir which gives you life based off storm count, song of freylaise which its one and two of its saga lets you tap creatures for mana and skirk prospector to gain a red mana by saccing a goblin. With skirk, warchief, song, aetherflux, and two squee, you can cast a squee for 2 mana, tap it for mana, sac it for the other to cast your next squee, rinse and repeat until aetherflux gives you the mana to blow up your opponent.
This is one of the silliest looking decks I've seen so far for Dominaria Standard. I like it.
FoggyMemoryJ Im about to build this for FNM I'll tell you how it goes
Cool. Best of luck to you.
This remind me of my Izzet deck I played when steam agury was standard
One combo i like to play is.
1. Offer to cut your opponent's deck.
2. Stand up.
3. Run. Run fast.
This is how long all the deck tech vids should be
Merc and the editing! I might subscribe just for the visual editing team
Mufasa O if you like good editing, check out the Command Zone Podcast's series Game Knights if you haven't already! Beautiful animations and easy-to-follow games of (usually) Commander. They are definitely longer videos, though, if that's not your forté
YES!!! Also...The Command Zone people should be hired by WotC to do the graphics for the Pro Tour and GP broadcasts. Buy Josh and Jimmy a team and see MtG become as popular as Hearthstone.
Hutman50 Yes! I love them. I'm still waiting for their GameKnights with JumboCommander. In my opinion, I'm sad they're supporting Brawl, it's just a money grab that most likely won't be a gateway format to EDH.
But I've come to hate Josh Lee Kwai. I used to be able to withstand him, but he's just so narcissistic and overly critical. Jimmy Wong is fine tho, I love him. He's in touch with his family, invited his mom to his little cooking show on youtube, is interested in film (I think he used to be an actor, now he directs The Command Zone as his film project - and look how good it turned out), plus he's just adorable and his smiles seem genuine.
Rock on, Jimmy Wong.
Needs to be more convoluted and impractical.
I agree, needs like 3 more cards.
This is really cool, also the sweet animations, I love them, this way to show triggers and effect should be on the digital games instead of taking a lot of the screen
You know what makes this one even better? In response to an Abrade, flash in Raff Capashen and continue the loop for infinite life, draw into counterspell. counter abrade.
This format is much better than the other 30-second deck techs.
Love the video, impressive how easy you made it to understand a complicated combo. Definitely going home and brewing with this tonight!
One bonus with this. You can play this as a backup in an aggressive construct build. With Champion of the Foundry, Metallic Mimic, Scrapheap Scroungers, Ballista, and even Sparring Construct, you can go fairly aggro with constructs and be unafraid of sweepers. Phyrexian scriptures becomes a 1 sided wrath. Teshar and Scrap trawler both lead to ridiculous loops, getting value while you keep the pressure on, until a yahenni can throw an infinite loop in there somewhere, without even having to break stride. Also foudnry inspector and vanquisher's banner can do a fun bit of work.
The loop here is usually yahenni, teshar, scrap trawler, mimic set to construct and ballista. (but there are so many more without goign out of your way). Only issue is that there's alot of sideboard grave hate targeting GPG and Scarab God
I'm skeptical of a combo that involves so may cards, but you did a great job of explaining the combo and with the animations. A++
Or... you can just use bontu’s monument.
Agreed
But isnt that only when you cast a creature? and since coming from the grave yard does that count?
Michael you are right but scrap traler is working with a sacrifice outlet to return balista to your hand and cast it trigger teshar
yes, but you still cast it
Balista isn't a black spell. Bontu's would do nothinh
It's not a standard combo however astral cornucopia clockspinning and paradox engine work really well together infinite mana. Can boost any plainswalker to Max right when you drop it, you can boost lots of artifacts as well.
I feel like Aetherflux Reservoir would be an easier win condition than adding the extra step of infinite mana. The ballista is still useful as a utility creature to remove creatures. You could also include Ornithopter as another 0 cost historic card, since the sacrifice outlet is already there.
S Clever the aetherflux is an otherwise useless card outside of the combo. All of the other cards have use outside of the combo which is what makes a good combo deck work
I don't play rotating formats, but this deck looks like something I would play.
Since scrap trawler counts as a historic spell, when you first initiate it into the combo, you bring back walking ballista to the battlefield before the trawler resolves. Since the power and toughness would equal 0, it dies and goes to the graveyard and you gain one extra life off of the gate to the afterlife. After that happens, scrap trawler resolves and then you can initiate the combo. This is just one tiny thing that was overlooked in the video that only applies before the combo starts.
Yargle + fling + Insult // Injury
Those three cards represent exactly 20 damage to the opponent's face and 2 to a creature. 29 to face if you get in for Yargle beats.
thats if you do it all in the same turn, i know were talking about yargle fling here but we have to be somewhat realistic
Yes, when I made a yargle combo deck i was entirely focused on how competitively viable it was.
thank you for finally making my idea that the videos should be a little longer than 30sec for combo decks work. neato video
I actually discovered an easier infinite combo in standard. First forum I'm sharing it with. Haven't built a deck yet. But the combo goes like this. You need Teshar Ancestors Apostle, diligent excavator, restoration specialist and a mox amber on the battlefield, with another mox amber in hand. You tap the mox for W, then cast the one from hand. The legend rule will sacrifice the tapped mox. You use the floating white mana to activate restoration specialist. Returning the mox in your graveyard to your hand. You tap the mox on the battlefield for W, and cast the mox in hand. This will trigger Teshar, allowing you to put restoration specialist back on the battlefield, which can then be saccd again be with the floating W. You can do this an infinite number of times. Every time you cast the mox, the diligent excavator mills you opponent for two until they're decked. Alternatively, you can use the trigger from cabal paladin to deal infinite damage, but he costs 2 more to cast than excavator.
Infinite turn combo (standard) Play Time stream navigator, attach Helm of the Host. Boom! Infinite turns
4:20 duration , op
I made a Red/White Combo of Reckless Fireweaver, Ravenous Intruder, Teshar, Ballista, Trawler combo. Either ping opponent every time ballista and trawler come back into play with the sac ability from intruder, or just build a big intruder. I also have in my deck the Combat Celebrant/Helm of the Host combo which also helps with swinging with that big Intruder.
Teshar with fireweaver in play, 2 moxs in hand and restoration specialist in play. Play a mox tap if for one white play 2nd mox sac the first due to the legendary rule. then sac specialist with the one white, return the mox from the graveyard to hand. Tap in play mox for white, Play the mox in your hand,return specialist to battlefield due to teshar ability . Repeat forever, do 1 damage to your opponent per mox cast due to fireweaver. Enjoy.
"i know it looks like a lot of cards, but it's gonna win the game"
well with that many specific combo pieces i would sure as hell hope it would
Evra, halcyon witness +Fling. Swap your life total with evra's power to get a 20/4 then Fling it at your opponent for a fast win if you can ramp into it.
Primordial Hunger, specifically Thromok, is good for stopping life gain combos.
why would you say cast the defiant salvager, its 3 cmc. discard it cast a 0 mana artifact like the mox and return it with the teshar trigger.
What was the list of cards you use in this deck so that I can get an idea of what I need to set up a deck similar to this
An infinite turn with planar Bridge and timestream navigator. Keep tapping timestream for an extra turn and then use planar Bridge to search out timestream. End your turn to have an additional and repeat
Evra, Halcyon Witness with anything that boosts her power will, eventually, grant you infinite life. At four mana a cycle. You can do it in Standard with Dub, Short Sword, etc.
You swap your life with her CURRENT power. Base is 4, and with a Jousting Lance she gets +2. So, 6. Your life becomes 6 and her base power becomes your life, which is then increased by 2 because of the Jousting lance. Swap it again, and her base power becomes 6 (assuming nothing happened) and your life becomes whatever it was a moment ago +2.
Use an infinite mana combo in Modern and Fling her at your opponent for 10mil.
naru meha and release to the wind = infinite cast triggers
bontu's monument = infinite drain
with raff capashen you can combo off at instant speed
works best in a control shell.
have one many fnm's with it.
Okay, so you have Forerunner of the Coalition and Hostage Taker in your hand. Play Forerunner, and tutor up a second Hostage Taker. This second one will be out on top of your library. For convenience, we will label them Hostage Taker 1 and 2.
Next turn, draw Hostage Taker #2. Play either one, but again, for convenience, play #1. Each opponent loses 1 life. Then, exile Forerunner. This will discourage your opponent from blowing up Hostage Taker #1.
Then, play Hostage Taker #2. Exile Hostage Taker #1. Forerunner re-enters the battlefield. Tutor up Hostage Taker #3. Next turn, draw Hostage Taker #3.
Play Hostage Taker #3, exiling Hostage Taker #2. Each opponent loses 1. Hostage Taker #1 re-enters, exiling Hostage Taker #3, each opponent loses 1. Hostage Taker #2 re-enters, exiling Hostage Taker #1, each opponent loses 1. Hostage Taker #3 re-enters, exiling Hostage Taker #2, each opponent loses 1. And repeat. Forever.
A fun combo I found was grand warlord radha, tilonallis summoner, and a walking a ballista
Ok, so my favorite combo is more of a group of cards. It involves having Brisela, Voice of Nightmares, Archtype of Endurance, Avacyn Angel of Hope, and Sigarda, Herons Grace. Not to mention Sunblast Angel and Subjugator Angel.
Soooo where does the infinite 3 mana come from to recast Scrap Trawler?
Traxos Scourge of Kroog and Voltaic Servant won me 3 out of 4 rounds at the prerelease this weekend
Well you see if you play black you can play Yargle. Boom Combo breaker!
Combine that with arcane flight
BARGLE WITH THE YARGLE
I found a killer combo it's the Exert Mythic from Amonkhet that whenever you exert him you get an extra attack phase and then attach the new equipment that copies the equipped creature during each of your combats so boom not only infinite combat steps but infinite exert kings all hail the God Pharaoh
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle, Tragic Poet, and any Saga, gives you an infinite Saga generator.
like the deck, i already had a mardu version built using cathartic reunion and ravenous intruder over the blue pieces
the combo was easier because i had better sac outlets and ran cut/ribbons for infinite drain. but i like the blue use of trophy mage much more
thankyou
Helm of the Host + Combat Celebrant = Infinite combats
Siren's Ruse on the stack + Naru Meha, Master Wizard = Infinite ETB triggers.
Sire's Ruse on the stack + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + (Naban, Dean of Iteration or Panharmonicon) = Infinite ETB triggers + Infinite copies of any other instant or sorcery you control that's on the stack.
Wispweaver Angel + ((Protean Raider + having attacked that turn) or Vizier of Many Faces or second Wispweaver Angel) + Panharmonicon = Infinite ETB triggers for all creatures you control. (Doesn't actually require Dominaria funnily enough.)
Blackblade Reforged + Marwyn, the Nurturer + (Saheeli's Artistery or Saheeli Rai) + Cogwork Assembler + 10 lands = Infinite mana + Infinite hasty token copies of artifacts.
Lich's Mastery + Faith of the Devoted + Gaea's Blessing x2 = Infinite combo for the New Perspectives cycling deck. Most likely of these combos to actually be useful.
Muldrotha, the Gravetide x2 + Liliana, Death's Majesty x2 + Universal Solvent + Quarry Beetle + (Guardians of Koilos or Oath of Teferi) + Cabal Stronghold + Sac creature outlet + 22 swamps = Infinite basically whatever you want.
...I can probably come up with more, but these are the silliest ones I could come up with off the top of my head.
Release to the Wind + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Bontu's Monument = drain your opponent to death
Regarding the first interaction: Doesn't the spell have to resolve (so, leaving the stack) for Naru to blink and activate its triggered ability ?
And in this case, why is Release to the Wind different than Siren's Ruse ?
Forget it, got it ahah
Yeah, I had to think about that one for a sec too. I was all like "is Bontu's a cast trigger?"
In the vein of specifically Teshar Related Combos:
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle + Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Wispweaver Angel + Hope of Ghirapur + Mox Amber x2 + Protean Raider x2 + Having attacked that turn + Skirk Prospector = Infinite practically everything.
mox amber+scrap trawler+makeshift munition+gleaming barrier+Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
Rush of vitality + famished paladin + Sorcerer's Wand: turn 4, 3 card infinite damage combo
Cvermeir I do something like that with goblin sharpshooter + elemental mastery + goblin bombardment.
yea, but these are standard legal cards
Would this also be infinite life?
yea also
you could just do resplendent mentor + famished palanid
Edit: this is just for infinite life
I'm just gonna leave with my Doublecast into Doublecast combo.
If you have Serra’s Disciple out during this loop, you get an infinitely big birb. Surprised not to see it on the deck list.
This is a more recent combo that I want to build a deck around. You need Drowned Secrets, Diligent Excavator, Naru Meha, Master Wizard, and Return to the Wind. You want as many copies of both Drowned Secrets and Diligent Excavator in play as possible. Cast Return to the wind targeting an nonland permanent you control. Secrets triggers because you cast a blue spell. Then before you let that trigger resolve and mill your opponent for two, you flash in Naru Meha. Secrets triggers because Naru Meha is blue, and Excavator triggers because Naru Meha is historic. Naru Meha copies Return to the Wind. That copy of the spell is now on top of the stack. The copy resolves first, and Naru Meha is exiled. Now you can cast Naru Meha again without paying it's mana cost. Continue flash casting Naru Meha for as many mill triggers as you need to mill your opponent out.
Tetsuko allows for you to swing in with Ovalchase Dragster unlockable
That combo may look nice but i guess takes just too many pieces to be playable in competitive standard. I'd prefer playing squee the immortal + Hazoret's Monument and Paradox Engine combined with some mana stones like manalith, pillar of origins and gilded lotus. You can get a high amount of mana and the monument lets you dig for the win condition and it only takes 3 pieces since the other relevant cards are incorporated in a higher amount. The best suggestion i've read here so far is helmm of the host + combat celebrant. Easy to find, protect and execute.
I found an infinite combo using Whisper, Blood Liturgist, it isn't standard though.
It requires 4 cards to work:
Whisper, Blood Liturgist
Thornbite Staff
Golgari Germination (or similar)
Falkenrath Noble (or similar)
You start the combo with all the cards in play along with any other creature, Thornbite Staff equipped to Whisper. Tap whisper and choose to sacrifice Fallenrath and the other creature, sacrificing these creatures will cause whisper to untap, thanks to the staff, and create at least 1 saproling token. After all these triggers resolve, return Falkenrath to the battlefield with the rest of the now paid whisper ability. Now you're back where you started but with a saproling and Falkenrath in play, your opponent down 1 life and you up 1 life.
Repeat this process sacrificing the saproling and falkenrath as many times as you want.
This combo can be set up from a single Diabolic Tutor if you have an Eternal Witness.
Tutor for the witness and play the witness to return tutor. Next tutor for Whisper, play it, then sacrifice a creature and the witness to return the witness, which will return the tutor. Tutor for the rest of the peices in this or a better way.
Aviary Mechanic x2 + Oketra's Monument is pretty Funny.
W: Create a 1/1 with vigilance
Jhoira and raff capashen in an affinity deck for modern, it looks so insane, casting all artifacts like they had flash and draws a card for each, with the inclusion of mox Amber as well
Rayman_ 2000 yeah but having 2 four drops in play before you kill them with said affinity deck will be the hard part I'd imagine
Interesting, but what are the odds of getting all of these pieces in the right place at the right time???
How about Combat Celebrant and Helm of the Host? Two cards, infinite combat.
The real question is, is it finally time for the return of combo decks in standard?
As a combo player myself, I'll sure as hell try to make it so.
So how long will Kaladesh and Dominaria both be legal at the same time in Standard?
Too bad every deck in standard is running Abrade or naturalize etc right now. this would be so painful to play when they are already going to blow up gate to the after life thinking you're some sort of jank GPG deck.
But.....you're playing Scrap trawler. Thanks to it and Teshar you're pretty damn resilient to most artifact hate, only hard removal on Teshar herself is something to worry about. You could splash a tiny bit of control blue in there to stave off the few spells that will hard screw you by killing teshar, let their artifact hate run rampent cuz every artifact is a rez spell essentially, and you might have something here.
Dan martin how does UW, UB, WB, fit Abrade or naturalize lol
novar trollmage of the digital arts don’t forget BR God Pharos Gift, Mono Red, and GR Monsters are a thing
i am worry of Damping Sphere, more than any removal
novar trollmage of the digital arts not sure what you've played against in your local meta, but everything I see at FNM plays artifact/enchantment hate now. The most dominant decks in standard (currently) nearly all run red or green removal. UR GPG, mono red, RB aggro, mardu vehicles, GB snake, etc. now that UR GPG is such a strong deck against almost any match up, expect even more main board hate than normal.
What are your thoughts on Teshar + Rona ?
Renegade map didnt come into play tapped. Kinda bugging me.
This is fantastic. I feel it could be optimized a little though.
LOVE IT! love combos wish there was a way to get infinite tokens of any kind as well
turn 5-6 infinite damage. Cards rquired: Karn, Scion of Urza, Mishra's self replicator, and cheap historical spells, preferably artifacts
Step 1: Play Mishra's Self Replicator
Step 2: Play Karn and pay the 1 mana to duplicate MSR
Step 3: use Karn's third ability "Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." pay the 1 mana for each Mishra's Self Replicator duplication
Step 4: Play cheap artifacts, paying 1 extra mana each per Mishra's Self Replicator
Step 5: ???
Step 6: a 20+20+ colorless construct and 20+ Mishra's Self Replicators
If you combine this with the infinite mana shown in the video, you're practically unstoppable
I want to try Jhoira Cheerios in modern. I know Sram Cheerios is better, but you could use Jhoira and mox amber to pull off the combo, so it's a lot cheaper than the Sram version
This is freekin insane.... I love it
Perhaps add in Cabal Paladin, which deals 2 damage to each opponent every time you cast a historic spell?
I wish I knew of this sooner, so I could maybe try it on Arena. LOL!
Please can someone tell me the backing music! Also this deck is awesome!
th-cam.com/video/_sO_pSsnhuE/w-d-xo.html breaking point by Ian post
I have an infinite combo that either wins or can give you a lot of 3/3 Dino’s
First you need a forerunner of the empire on the field and along with a frilled deathspitter, then you need a heroic intervention and raptor hatching In the hand
First play hatchling then the intervention, the hatchling will trigger forerunner dealing one damage to everything on the board this makes a 3/3 from raptor hatchling and deals 2 damage to your opponents from the death spitter, now the 3/3 triggers forerunner and as everything is indestructible you can just machine gun down opponents
Wait, when you cast Scrap Trawler, it's an artifact, therefore it's historic, so Teshar triggers, returning Walking Ballista to the battlefield, assuming it's the only creature card with CMC 3 or less in graveyard. Not really a problem, since Ballista will die immediately, gaining you 1 life, then you sacrifice Scrap Trawler, returning Ballista to hand, gaining you 1 life. Just an extra step you missed. You actually gain 2 life each time you complete the combo.
Welcome back, infinite black lotus.
Good thing I just pulled a foil Mox Amber at my prerelease
This is just what I needed
Doesn't mox amber on add mana for legendary cards?
It adds Mana if you control a Legend, but it doesn't restrict what you spend that Mana on. Teshar and Yahenni are both Legendary.
Technically each time you cast Scrap Trawler, you bring Walking Ballista back to the battlefield as a 0/0 that dies immediately. This won't do anything aside from gain you an extra life for each time you cast Scrap Trawler. The Teshar ability is mandatory, so you have an extra step to do by bringing out Walking Ballista that just dies immediately to gain you more life.
I love all the comments ragging on this combo. It isn't meant to be tier 1 competitive. Obviously. What a bunch of cretins.
Lich's Mastery plus Navigators Compass. Ancestral Recall in Standard.
Angel of invention plus Helm of the host
If you play makeshift munitions, you can actually infinite shoot them another way instead of ballista infinite mana, play the mox to recur trawler, sac trawler paying the 1 off the mox to shoot and get mox back to hand loop.....
I would love to show off my combo decks, but there's no one else not playing a top 8 deck.
So i decided that brawl would be way too easy to make a combo at since you can bank one legendary creature at all times, so i put sram, senior artificer and some zero cmc equipments, and i drew into about half my deck. Just sucks when someone plays Consulate Crackdown.
Megrim
Liliana's caress
Raiders wake
Damnable pact
dark deal
And liliana vess
Liliana vess to tutor out the first three onto your field (i know it goes to top of library, thats not a big deal) once you have all three, you can pump liliana to force a discard, dealing 6 damage in the process. Tutor out dark deal or damnable pact, pay high x on pact to force your opponent to over draw. With all three on the field provided they don't have a destroy enchantment. If they discard 4 cards its game over, or, play dark deal to force a hand discard, and if that dosnt kill them, pump liliana for that last card yoh need.
Not standard or even modern legal but you can go infinite with Slimefoot, ashnods altar and parallel lives
I want to see this jank played.
Shouldn't the Ballista be reanimated when you cast the Scrap Trawler?
Guilherme Rodrigues yeah, but it will die because it has no counters.
Elliott Canada thanks, I understood it now, I just lagged because he didn't reanimate and then auto-kill the Ballista so I thought he'd messed up hahaha :-D
Had this combo me off in xmage, guy had a 83 storm count and got me down to like -40 hp
I found a busted combo LITERALLY AT the pre release this morning. I had a flil rare merfolk that allowed me to gain 1 life and to draw a card per each land I put on the field. I had a scout that allowed me to play a land from my hand. And a sorcery card in my hand with ash in the name. Kick it and I now had 2 land on the field and was able to draw two cards and gain 2 life. My deck was all about pumping mana and getting all my high powered monster and spells out there like In Bolus Clutches, Karn's summit, and 3 other cards that coated 6 mana to summon literally on that turn. And they couldn't kill my Merfolk because I gave it a legendary dagger that gave her a +1/+1 per every land on the battlefield. Most of my cards gain power pet each land on field and graveyard and I was running a blue, green deck with a dash of black and white. I LOST MY ROUNDS BUCAUSE OF MY STUPID ACTIONS.....
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If you want to introduce this to a video.... Please say that Levion introduced the basics to you when you can do tweaks and whatever
(i just want someone to know that this idea wasn't just you ;-;)
asdf welcome to sealed it will never work in a competitive environment
Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Llanowar Scout + Grow From The Ashes + Blackblade Reforged
Was no one running Eviscerate? Or did you just have enough huge creatures to cast off the lands you're left with, and also not die to aggo/tempo?
combat celebrant and helm of the host
with tetsuko
Already working on a deck with this lol
Can't I just use Ornithopter instead of Walking Ballista and also sac it?
The reason why he uses Walking Ballista is because Walking Ballista is also used at the end of the combo to hit the opponent's face for absurd amounts of damage. If you're talking about the part where he brings back defiant salvager, then yes any 0 cost artifact creature would suffice.
It has already been pointed out that this combo as it is shown is suboptimal at best. The suggestion of Bontu's Monument for example means that you don't need Ballista in particular. You just do the first part of the shown combo any number of times and win the game.
Why not just use the 1/1 construct that adds a +1 counter and put on unblockable Relic Runner… your version seems needlessly complicated. If you have that Jhoira’s Familiar in play the construct is free to cast.
So many stream
Oneofdazzz it costs Mana. Ballista doesn't. Ballista also is a win condition.
You dont need Defiant Salvager, if you are looping through the deck you can just get a second mox amber and legend rule them instead of having a non-legendary sac outlet.
Gate to the afterlife is also strictly worse than just playing metallic mimic, a card that Teshar can bring back too.
You can win with 6 mana on an empty board. Cast Teshar, Cast Mimic(call Construct), Return Yaheeni. Cast Ballista(0), Return Scrap Trawler.
Ballista comes into play as a 1/1 thanks to mimic. Ping for 1. Sac Mimic, Return Ballista to hand. Cast Ballista(0) Return Mimic, Ballista ETBs as 1/1. Repeat.
Have a Teshar on the battlefield - Don't need to explain this one
Have an Atzocan Seer, on the battlefield or in the graveyard - 1GW for a 2/3 manadork with "Sacrifice Atzocan Seer: return target Dinosaur card from your graveyard to your hand"
Have three (possibly less) Flings in hand - 1R for an instant that says "As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target."
Have enough lands on the battlefield to produce at least 11 mana, and finally:
Have Zacama, Primal Calamity in hand - 6RGW for 9/9 legendary elder dinosaur with vigilance, reach, trample, and a whole lot of great abilities, but what we care about: "When Zacama, Primal Calamity enters the battlefield, if you cast it, untap all lands you control."
The loop is pretty simple: Tap all your lands (11+ mana floating), cast Zacama (2+ mana floating), Teshar returns Atzocan Seer to the battlefield (since Zacama is legendary, therefore historic), Zacama untaps all your lands, use two of the floating mana you have to sacrifice Zacama to Fling, then when he hits the graveyard, sacrifice Atzocan Seer to return Zacama to our hand and start over again.
I think you will run into problems if you try to make a deck around this combo, though, because you need to both ramp into at least 10 mana, AND find your six piece combo, AND you mana base needs to support three colours (if not more), AND every card in your combo is really vulnerable to removal/counterspells, so good luck trying to do this into open mana.
The best approach to this, I think, is to try to build a two colour (green-something) ramp deck that tries to put down big beater after big beater to win, and then splash the third colour to have this as a secondary win condition. Zacama fits that kind of deck nicely, as does Fling, and Atzocan Seer is not even THAT bad (though it is still bad, especially if most of your beaters aren't even dinosaurs).
Instead of Fling, you could technically use Temple of Aclazotz (the land you get from transforming Arguel's Blood Fast that reads "Tap, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.") to sacrifice Zacama, netting you not only infinite life but also infinite mana, which you can then use for your win condition of choice. Another good option is Makeshift Munitions, a two mana red enchantment that reads: "(1), Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Makeshift Munitions deals 1 damage to any target.". Both these options really only require you to have 10 lands - 1 less than the one I used, which can make a difference in a combo build of the deck.
I mean, yeah, Teshar would be awful in a ramp deck like that.
But you only asked for a combo I discovered, not a good one.
How much would this cost?
I want to see someone build an elf deck with marwyn and itlimoc. Talk about mana gain
Hey, here is a really stupid infinite life combo using standard, I haven’t got it to work personally but a better player probably can, bonus, it uses squee.
So you will be playing red green, you need access to two squees, so one in hand one in grave or any combo of that kind, a goblin warchief giving goblins haste and making them cost 1 less, aetherflux reservoir which gives you life based off storm count, song of freylaise which its one and two of its saga lets you tap creatures for mana and skirk prospector to gain a red mana by saccing a goblin.
With skirk, warchief, song, aetherflux, and two squee, you can cast a squee for 2 mana, tap it for mana, sac it for the other to cast your next squee, rinse and repeat until aetherflux gives you the mana to blow up your opponent.
You'd be able to pull walking ballista from the graveyard when you play scrap trawler because cmc X is equal to 0
Then the -10 effect from Vraska the Relic Seeker
The word cheese comes to mind
I want to build this with an Aetherflux reservoir for that sweet, sweet death star
Aetherflux reservoir?
That's it I'm making a commander deck around this.
What I hate is how he returned Walking Ballista to his hand when Teshar's ability returns it to the BATTLEFIELD!