the front side of Krark, the Thumbless
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Storm-Kiln Artist
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Dominion Saboteur
the back of a classic MtG card
Instant or Sorcery that Creates One or More Copies of a Creature You Control
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Color Identity: U, R

Cards

  1. Krark, the Thumbless
  2. Storm-Kiln Artist
  3. Dominion Saboteur
  4. Instant or Sorcery that Creates One or More Copies of a Creature You Control

Initial Card State

  1.  Instant or Sorcery that Creates One or More Copies of a Creature You Control in hand.
  2.  All other permanents on the battlefield (Dominion Saboteur as a copy of Krark).

Notable Prerequisites

  1. This combo has a chance of failure based on the amount of starting mana you have and your first few coin flips.
  2. It may take significantly more or less mana than the amount shown.
  3. See the widget below for calculations.

Steps

  1. Cast the instant or sorcery that creates a copy of a creature by paying its mana cost, targeting Dominion Saboteur.
  2. When you cast that spell, Krark, any additional copies of Krark, and Storm-Kiln Artist trigger.
  3. Resolve the Storm-Kiln Artist trigger, creating a Treasure token.
  4. Resolve all Krark triggers, copying that spell for each flip you won, and returning the original to your hand as long as you lost at least one flip.
  5. Each time you copy a spell, Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
  6. Resolve each copy of that spell, creating a token copy of Krark each time.
  7. Activate all your Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding one mana of any color for each one.
  8. If that spell is back in your hand, repeat from step 1.
  9. If you won every flip, instead resolve the card itself, creating one more Krark token and putting the card into your graveyard.
  10. If you manage to pass a critical threshold of Krark copies before the copying spell ends up in your graveyard, this combo is overwhelmingly likely to be an infinite loop from that point on. See the widget below for failure chances.
  11. Once you have infinite mana and infinite copies of Krark, you can repeat this loop with any instant or sorcery you can cast.

Results

  1. Infinite artifact ETB.
  2. Infinite artifact LTB.
  3. Infinite copies of creatures you control.
  4. Infinite copies of instant or sorcery spells you cast.
  5. Infinite magecraft triggers.
  6. Infinite storm count.

Metadata

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ExhibitionBracket 1+

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Will Krark's coin flips go infinite?

Each Krark flips a coin whenever you cast a creature-copying spell targeting Krark. Every win copies the spell for one more Krark, and Storm-Kiln Artist makes a Treasure for the cast and for each copy. A copy of the spell can copy Storm-Kiln Artist instead, for the mana: where that gives the better chance, the odds aim a cast's first copies at it and say how many, the spell itself after them. Broadly, that is while the mana left after the cast falls short of the next cast or two, and for a copy won with flips still to come; with mana to spare, or a win on the last flip, a Krark is the better copy. A single loss returns the spell to your hand to cast again, but win every flip and it resolves for one more Krark and is used up. The loop stops once it is, or once you can't pay for the next cast. With Krark's Thumb the odds take every win unless losing the flip, to keep the spell, gives the better chance. With the Thumb and no way left to go infinite, they lose the flip as well: such a combo counts as running out of mana, a copying spell still in hand, rather than as using it up. Where it stops, how many copies of Krark it has made by then, how many casts and how much mana are given as mean ± deviation.

Counting your Treasures.

Krark and its copies, Dominion Saboteur among them: change it as the combo goes to see where you stand.

Each doubles the coins you flip, and you keep the one you like. It's legendary, so a second takes something like Mirror Box.

The copying spells can copy it instead of Krark.

Chance of going infinite52%

Runs out of mana
2.4%
with a copying spell still in hand
Uses up the spell
45.6%
by winning every flip of a cast
With unlimited mana
53.5%
the best these spells can do
Krarks made
3.7 ± 1.8
copies of Krark when it stops, mean ± deviation
Casts
1.8 ± 1.0
of the copying spells when it stops, mean ± deviation
Mana made
4.5 ± 2.4
by Storm-Kiln Artist when it stops, mean ± deviation
Chance of going infinite by mana
Chance of going infinite by Krarks

Variants of this combo

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