Calling all Johnnys!
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Posted on Feb. 14, 2013, 2:19 p.m. by MagicalHacker
I am trying to compile a list of combos in standard that should be tested to see if they can be the basis of a strong combo deck in competitive standard. By no means are the combos I have listed DEFINITIVELY doable in competitive, I think that they deserve my time to test them out. Post any other strong standard combos you know of, infinite or not.
Infinite:
- Exquisite Blood + Vizkopa Guildmage + any lifeloss or lifegain
- Boros Reckoner + give him indestructible and lifelink + any damage to him
- Fiend Hunter + card:Angel of Glory's Rise + sac engine + sac effect or etb effect
- Galvanic Alchemist + Axebane Guardian + 3 other defenders + mana dump
- Captain of the Mists + card:Illusionist's Bracers + Gilded Lotus
- Deadeye Navigator + Zealous Conscripts + Gilded Lotus
- Deadeye Navigator or Nephalia Smuggler + Aurelia, the Warleader + creatures that tap for 1U or 3U respectively
- Deadeye Navigator or Nephalia Smuggler + Village Bell-Ringer + creatures that tap for 1U or 3U respectively + a tap ability
Non-infinite:
- Jace, Memory Adept + Duskmantle Guildmage
- Seance + Mirror-Mad Phantasm + Laboratory Maniac
- Omniscience + Enter the Infinite + Borborygmos Enraged
- Blasphemous Act + Boros Reckoner or Stuffy Doll
- Krenko, Mob Boss + card:Illusionist's Bracers
- Thrull Parasite or Ooze Flux or Zameck Guildmage + undying
- Tree of Redemption + card:Trostani, Selesnya's Voice or Sheltering Word
- Tree of Redemption + Feed the Pack
- Tree of Redemption + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Undercity Informer + Undead Alchemist
- Five-Alarm Fire + Assemble the Legion
- Assemble the Legion + Descent into Madness at least one turn later
- Ooze Flux + evolve so that the number of counters you remove is more than the individual power/toughness of each creature
- Gisela, Blade of Goldnight + Rush of Blood or card:Inquisitor's Flail or Curse of Bloodletting or Boros Charm or Silverblade Paladin
- Gisela, Blade of Goldnight or Rush of Blood or card:Inquisitor's Flail or Curse of Bloodletting + Malignus
- Malignus + Malignus
- Biovisionary + 3 creatures + Infinite Reflection
- Burn at the Stake + tons of tokens
- ramping creatures + Craterhoof Behemoth
- Talrand, Sky Summoner or Guttersnipe + cipher (Pyroconvergence can also be used with the gold cipher cards)
- 1 or 2 copies of Primal Surge + ramp + card:Akroma's Memorial
- Worldfire + Thragtusk or Fiend Hunter , Oblivion Ring , or Detention Sphere on your own guy
- Worldfire + any damage to your opponent + card:Alchemist's Refuge or Hypersonic Dragon or any other ways to put it in response to the damage
- Rooftop Storm + sac engine + Gravecrawler or 2 Ghoulraiser
- Vraska the Unseen + card:Rogue's Passage
Assemble the Legion + Descent into Madness seems like an awesome combo, four copies of each and a bunch of control to stay alive long enough for them to sack everything.
February 14, 2013 2:33 p.m.
Gravecrawler +on death trigger+zombie+sac engine+Rooftop Storm
for instance Grimgrin, Corpse-Born +Diregraf Captain +Gravecrawler +Rooftop Storm
February 14, 2013 2:44 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #5
- Tamiyo, the Moon Sage 's ultimate + Burning-Tree Emissary + a sac engine with a cool ability
February 14, 2013 3:47 p.m.
I know it's not the first time I heard that Boros Reckoner can goes infinite. I just can't figure how. Anybody mind explaining to me how it goes?
February 14, 2013 4:04 p.m.
@MurasakiRose: If Boros Reckoner has lifelink and indestructibility, you can just aim his ability at himself infinite times to gain infinite health.
February 14, 2013 4:14 p.m.
miracleHat says... #8
out of all of the combos, my favorite would have to be Tree of Redemption and Feed the Pack . one combo that i thought funny was Army of the Damned with Parallel Lives
February 14, 2013 6:39 p.m.
gheridarigaaz says... #9
Archaeomancer + Gilded Lotus +Ghostly Flicker + a triggered ability/Goblin Electromancer
Goblin Electromancer lets you generate infinite mana
Vigilante Justice /Guttersnipe lets you do infinite damage
card:Trostani, Selesnya's Voice/Healer of the Pride infinite life
Soul of the Harvest infinite draw
card:Sage's Row Denizen/Consuming Aberration lets you mill infinitely
Blistercoil Weird /Quirion Dryad /Charmbreaker Devils /Hamletback Goliath /Kruin Striker /Champion of the Parish gets infinitely huge
Talrand, Sky Summoner infinite tokens
And if the Archaeomancer is a creature token via Cackling Counterpart or something else, Parallel Lives can give you an infinite number of tokens
February 14, 2013 7:50 p.m.
card:Illusionist's Bracers can = unlimited mana in the following ways (maybe more):
card:Illusionist's Bracers on an Arbor Elf , that is bound with Galvanic Alchemist (requires a Breeding Pool )
card:Illusionist's Bracers on a Greenside Watcher , that is bound with Galvanic Alchemist (requires and blue producing gate).
card:Illusionist's Bracers on a Niblis of the Breath , and a card:Illusionist's Bracers on either land untappers above.
card:Illusionist's Bracers on an Axebane Guardian , bound with a Galvanic Alchemist and 1 other defender in play. (mana producing isn't doubled, but he untaps twice)
card:Illusionist's Bracers on a Niblis of the Breath or Captain of the Mists , and an Axebane Guardian plus 1 or 2 other defenders.
card:Illusionist's Bracers on Captain of the Mists with a Thraben Doomsayer and Axebane Guardian and 2 other defenders in play. (can repeat for infinite human tokens with one other defender, but not mana)
February 14, 2013 8:12 p.m.
gheridarigaaz says... #11
Aurelia, the Warleader has haste... so if you attack with her, you get one additional attack phase... but throw in a Deadeye Navigator and you could get a second by flickering her... throw in a couple of creatures that produce mana... e.g. Arbor Elf or a couple of animated Azorius Keyrune s or Izzet Keyrune s and you can attack as many times as you want.
February 15, 2013 7:56 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #12
Thanks everyone so far for all the input! I have the full list that I keep updating at Combos in standard.
@Rayenous, I am not seeing how the first two go infinite. Won't you be netting a loss of a mana each time?
February 15, 2013 8:16 a.m.
@ mstancea
Pay 3, to put 2 stacks of "Untap this creature" on the stack, then each time it untaps, tap the elf to put 2 stacks of "Untap target forest." on the stack... thats a total of untap 4 forests for a cost of 3 mana. So long as there's at least 1 forest that can produce a blue mana, it becomes repeatable.
February 15, 2013 10:41 a.m.
(non-infinite) Galvanic Juggernaut enchanted with Lightning Prowess , plus a High Priest of Penance that has been made indestructible.
February 15, 2013 11:15 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #15
Two stacks of "Untap target land" gives you two mana, not four...
February 15, 2013 3:45 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #16
nevermind! I see that it untaps a land TWICE plus it untaps itself TWICE. I didn't see that before, that's really cool!
February 15, 2013 5:58 p.m.
There are so many different ways to abuse the Omniscience + Enter the Infinite combo. The deck I am building uses lots of mana dorks and a few Craterhoof Behemoth s. 4 Biovisionary s works as well. I could go on but there are too many options to list them all.
Another combo that I thought of that is awesome for multiplayer is Consuming Aberration + Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord .
And one last one is land ramp such as Farseek , card:Ranger's Path, Boundless Realms , Borderland Ranger , etc. + Ground Assault + Stuffy or Reckoner; or Rubblehulk + Wandering Wolf type creatures. This is the idea behind Gruul Land Rush
February 25, 2013 1:36 a.m.
Heres 2 non infinite fo the collection
Chandra, the Firebrand -2 ability + Slaughter Games = Removes win-cons easily
Essence of the Wild + Fungal Sprouting = 6 6/6 creatures plus the Avatar
My decks with them
February 25, 2013 2:01 a.m.
Timekeeper says... #19
Tree of Redemption + Rhox Faithmender isn't infinite, but it gains a lot of life fast.
February 25, 2013 3:07 a.m.
Frimbleglim says... #20
Fiend Hunter x3 and Healer of the Pride Not actually a good combo but a combo notwithstanding.
February 25, 2013 6:40 a.m.
A combo Im working on
Master Biomancer + card:Conjurer's Closet + Fathom Mage
February 25, 2013 9:48 a.m.
I have a Simic build, mostly elves for ramp, that runs Biovisionary and Infinite Reflection . I run it with card:Alchemist's Refuge so I can flash it in on my opponent's turn after they're all tapped out. Have won a few games this way.
February 26, 2013 12:03 a.m.
Another one for the infinite combo list: Aurelia, the Warleader + Stolen Identity
February 26, 2013 6:48 a.m.
Oops, my bad, I forgot about the last part of the combo that makes it not Standard: Mirror Gallery
February 26, 2013 6:50 a.m.
used to run fungal sprouting in a red green build in order to fling hamletback captains now i just use them with master biomancer and ivy lane denizen for huge master and all tokens entering a stupid size
June 25, 2013 10:47 a.m.
3x Fiend Hunter + any etb trigger, Champion of the Parish (infinity/infinity 1-drop), Champion of Lambholt (infinity/infinity unblockable) Healer of the Pride infinity life, Beck / Call infinity cards etcetc
June 25, 2013 8:18 p.m.
the3rdH0kage says... #28
gheridarigaaz That token of Archeomancer in your last sentence wouldn't work for infinate tokens because if a token would leave the battlefeild at all, gfor any reason. It just goes away it wouldn't come back.
June 25, 2013 9:06 p.m.
gheridarigaaz says... #29
Yea... i've been informed of the ruling on the instance... still it's a nifty interaction with counterpart and parallel lives, giving you a constant token+recursion engine for each 2 copies of archaeomancer you make which could result in infinite removal alongside your token army
lDruid says... #2
Worldfire + Misthollow Griffin + 4 floated mana
February 14, 2013 2:23 p.m.