the front side of Codie, Vociferous Codex
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Necrotic Ooze
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Horseshoe Crab
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: W, U, B, R, G

Initial Card State

  1.  Necrotic Ooze on the battlefield.
  2.  Codie and Horseshoe Crab in your graveyard.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Necrotic Ooze does not have summoning sickness.
  2. You have at least one nonland card in hand.

Mana Needed

  1. four generic mana, plus enough mana to pay for the nonland card's mana cost minus one white manaone blue manaone black manaone red manaone green mana available.

Steps

  1. Activate Necrotic Ooze using Codie's ability by paying four generic mana and tapping it, adding one white manaone blue manaone black manaone red manaone green mana.
  2. Activate Necrotic Ooze using Horseshoe Crab's ability by paying one blue mana, untapping Necrotic Ooze.
  3. Repeat as desired, skipping step 2 on the final iteration.
  4. Cast any spell by paying its mana cost, reduced by the one white manaone blue manaone black manaone red manaone green mana added in step 1.
  5. Necrotic Ooze triggers for each time you activated Codie's ability.
  6. Resolve the first trigger, causing you to exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery spell with lesser mana value, and allowing you to cast that spell without paying its mana cost.
  7. Repeat step 6 for each remaining trigger.
  8. You may also repeat this combo for each nonland card in your hand as mana permits, and on subsequent turns.

Results

  1. Cast a subset of spells in your library.
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