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the front side of Ashnod's Altar
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Color Identity: U, R

Initial Card State

  1.  Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper in your graveyard.
  2.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. You have at least three other cards in your graveyard.

Mana Needed

  1. two generic mana available.

Steps

  1. Cast Venture Deeper from your graveyard for its escape cost by paying one generic mana and exiling three other cards from your graveyard, causing you to mill four cards and then exiling Venture Deeper.
  2. Cast Merfolk Secretkeeper from exile by paying one generic mana.
  3. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Merfolk Secretkeeper, adding two generic mana.
  4. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite card draw.
  2. Infinite colored mana.
  3. Infinite colorless mana.
  4. Infinite draw triggers.
  5. Infinite self-mill.
  6. Near-infinite death triggers.
  7. Near-infinite creature ETB.
  8. Near-infinite creature LTB.
  9. Near-infinite magecraft triggers.
  10. Near-infinite mill.
  11. Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers.
  12. Near-infinite storm count.

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PowerfulBracket 3+

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