Mono Black Infinite Possible?
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Posted on March 3, 2019, 1:58 a.m. by musicman3310
So I've been racking my brain for this to work in standard. I feel like Oathsworn Vampire and/or Reassembling Skeleton with Priest of Forgotten Gods can go infinite some way. She gives two mana and you can cast them for two mana, but how do we do it over again? Has anyone found anything like this for our awesome priestess?
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March 3, 2019 2:18 a.m.
simplebricks says... #4
You need a way of untapping the priest and getting another 2 mana a cycle to pay for two creatures. It is not happening in mono black. It was somewhat possible with bontu's monument and a free sack outlet.
Without a free sac outlet the best you can do is Thallid Omnivore + 2x Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + more plunderers or Open the Graves / Desecrated Tomb can make infinite mana. Vindictive Vampire or an X spell will win the game from there.
Priest is bad because it sacs two creatures and needs to tap. If you had access to things like Intruder Alarm and 2x Gravecrawler the priest would be useful for a combo. As is it is only a way of jumpstarting two mana to ramp into the real combo or a slow sac outlet.
March 3, 2019 2:22 a.m.
musicman3310 says... #5
Thank you all so much. I thought it would be a bit tricky with her specifically, but her "covering" one of their costs made me wonder at the possibility. Thank you especially simplebricks for that wonderful example.
March 3, 2019 5:01 a.m.
For fun, I looked into what options you had if you removed the mono-Black requirement.
Options in terms of untap engines are pretty limited in Modern. You have Cacophodon and High Alert .
For High Alert to work, you would have to generate each iteration to go infinite. Priest of the Forgotten Gods provides you the , but you would need three copies of Pitiless Plunder to make up the remainder of the cost.
For Cacophodon to work, you would first need to give it indestructible. Your options would be as follows: Adamant Will , Angelic Guardian (though this might be risky since you would have to attack), Chance for Glory (which gives you an extra turn so its three mana casting cost does not detract from your play significantly), Dauntless Bodyguard , Join Shields , Make a Stand , Resolute Watchdog , Sheltering Light , Song of Freyalise , and Vivien Reid .
You would also need some form of damage outlet that triggers on entering the battlefield or creatures dying. Currently, only Judith, the Scourge Diva works in standard.
You could also use a card like Open the Graves or Desecrated Tomb to generate creatures, which you could sacrifice to Makeshift Munitions , but you will need a copy of Pitiless Plunder to make this work.
March 3, 2019 9:49 a.m.
Flooremoji says... #7
I'm pretty sure that Teysa won't double up the black mana, correct?
March 3, 2019 11:07 a.m.
Flooremoji - she will not double up the mana. The creatures are being sacrificed for Priest of the Forgotten Gods ' ability, and it is the ability that adds the mana as opposed to the creatures' deaths.
PlatinumOne says... #2
Priest of Forgotten Gods requires you to sac 2 creatures. so you'd need either 2 Oathsworn Vampire , 2 Reassembling Skeleton , or 1 of each. either way, it'll take 4 total mana to get the 2 creatures back on the board again. so each repitition of the loop would cost 2 more mana than it generates. theres also the matter of figuring out how to repeatedly untap Priest of Forgotten Gods in a single turn. so unfortunately i don't think this is a loop that can be pulled off in standard.
March 3, 2019 2:16 a.m.