the front side of Rousing Refrain
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the front side of Rift Elemental
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Color Identity: R

Initial Card State

  1.  Rift Elemental on the battlefield.
  2.  Rousing Refrain in exile.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Rousing Refrain in exile with three time counters on it.
  2. An opponent has at least seven cards in hand.

Mana Needed

  1. ({3} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)   available.

Steps

  1. Active Rift Elemental by paying ({1} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)   and removing a time counter from Rousing Refrain.
  2. Repeat until Rousing Refrain has no time counters on it.
  3. Rousing Refrain triggers, causing you to cast it without paying its mana cost.
  4. Resolve Rousing Refrain, adding at least seven ({R} magic symbol)   and exiling Rousing Refrain with three time counters on it.
  5. Resolve all Rift Elemental abilities from step 1, giving Rift Elemental +2/+0 for each ability resolved.
  6. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinitely powerful Rift Elemental until end of turn.
  2. Infinite magecraft triggers.
  3. Infinite red mana.
  4. Infinite storm count.

Metadata

  1. In 4590 decks according to EDHREC.
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