the front side of Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
the back side of Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
the front side of Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Thornbite Staff
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Heat Shimmer
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: R, G

Initial Card State

  1.  Heat Shimmer in hand.
  2.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Hua Tuo does not have summoning sickness.
  2. Thornbite Staff attached to Hua Tuo.Primal Conquerer.
  3. It is your precombat main phase.

Mana Needed

  1. ({2} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)   available.

Steps

  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying ({2} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  , creating a token copy of Etali with haste.
  2. Choose to put the nontoken Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  3. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  4. The Etali token and Hua Tuo trigger.
  5. Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger untapping it.
  6. Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard.
  7. Resolve the Etali token's trigger from step 4, causing you to exile cards from each player's library until you exile a nonland card, with you exiling Etali from your library, and cast Etali and any other nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
  8. Choose to put the nontoken Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  9. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  10. The nontoken Etali and Hua Tuo trigger.
  11. Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger untapping it.
  12. Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard.
  13. Resolve the nontoken Etali's trigger from step 10, causing you to exile cards from each player's library until you exile a nonland card, with you exiling Etali from your library, and cast Etali and any other nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
  14. Repeat from step 8.

Results

  1. Cast any number of spells from opponents' libraries.
  2. Exile each opponent's library.
  3. Infinite death triggers.
  4. Infinite ETB.
  5. Infinite LTB.
  6. Infinite storm count.
  7. Near-infinite magecraft triggers.

Metadata

  1. In 11 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

This combo has been estimated to be Exhibition (Bracket 1+).



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