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Applied Algebra (Standard Exponential Turns)

Standard Counters GU (Simic) Infinite Combo

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  • 2x Crater's Claw

What, you thought you needed Ajani for infinite turns?

Heroic abilities resolve before the spell targeting it does. So, a Solidarity of Heroes targeting one Sage of Hours adds a counter due to Heroic (1 counter), then doubles the counters (2 counters). Now, lets say you've got an Elite Arcanist that exiled the Solidarity. You now have repeatable counter doubling. Now you can add a Kiora's Follower to untap the Arcanist, targeting the Sage again (3 counters) to double counters (6 counters) and gain a turn, or just use Hardened Scales to add a counter when the Sage's Heroic triggers (2 counters), then when the Arcanist's Solidarity doubles those counters (4 counters) it adds an extra (5 counters) then gain a turn. Don't have Solidarity available? Nature's Panopoly works just as well if you have some combination of Scales, Arcanists, and Followers.

Threw in some morph support for ramp and draw, and Hooded Hydra is there to trade all day erry day. Plus, with solidarity he'll become absolutely gigantic, and they'll need to answer it eventually, either making them waste a card or chump block ad infinitum

Oh, and when you lock them out, Kiora.

EDIT

I didn't realise Elite Arcanist rotated out, so say hello to Meletis Charlatan. Not exactly what I had in mind but I can make it work.

NOTE

There's a few ways to get exponentiating turns. Turn 3 is as early as possible to be getting turns, but if you are playing against a slow deck, it's very possible to win turn 4. Even if they manage to block, their creature is most likely dead. If it was a mana dork their likely screwed without its ramp.

Starting hand Forest, Island, 2 Basics, Scales, Solidarity, SageTurn 1: Forest, Hardened Scales, pass.Turn 2: Draw Charlatan, Island, Sage of Hours, pass.Turn 3: Draw Thaumaturge, Basic, Charlatan OR Draw Thaumaturge, Basic, Thaumaturge, Solidarity of Heroes, swing for 6, take an extra turn.Turn 4 if you choose Charlatan: Basic, Solidarity of Heroes, copy spell, swing for 23, take 4 extra turns

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I've been tweaking with it for a little and I've noticed I don't really have any finishers, other than swinging with Kruphix himself, or throwing the Sage in before i remove counters, but that's not reliable since combat damage doesn't wear off when you remove counters, effectively killing the sage. So, I sideboarded some other colors.

Red for Crater's Claw so I can use any excess mana with Kruphix to finish my opponent. Hey, Rattleclaw is already making red, so it's not hard.

White so i can truly go infinite with Ajani. With the Arcanist rotating out, Charlatan can only do so much. It's possible to get 6 turns if i get the combo off, and then luck into another targeting/counter giving spell to copy. Basically the same reliability as Ral Zarek was. With Ajani, every turn adding 3 counters. With at least 2 hardened scales, thats infinite turns.

Black, finally. Sultai has the best library manipulation i've seen thus far, grabbing what you need, discarding what you don't, just generally burning through the deck to win faster. i don't need that part though, i just need the one Villainous Wealth so i can (just as with the Crater Claw) use all that floating colorless mana from Kruphix to good use. And Urborg is there since i already own it and i don't feel like swapping out more than one card to generate black mana. (With Ajani it's different since he's another engine, not a finisher)

Some additions are Battlefield Thaumaturge, Mneumonic Wall, and Taigam's Scheming. 1 Thaum makes Solidarity half off, 2 Thaums makes Panopoly competitively priced. Scheming scries me a river, and Wall can bounce my spells that were used to my hand, ready to trigger more turns. Plus it synergizes well with the Scheming so meh.

To make room for that, Hooded Hydra has been taken out. Yes, its a pretty good card, but being able to choose my next 1-5 draws is more beneficial to me. 4 Morphs and 4 morph supports are plenty.

The only weakness is Ugin's Nexus. I need to find SOMETHING to exile it.

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 8 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 2 Mythic Rares

16 - 3 Rares

4 - 0 Uncommons

12 - 6 Commons

Cards 46
Avg. CMC 2.14
Tokens Morph 2/2 C
Folders i want, infinite combo, WTF?
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