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the front side of Magistrate's Scepter
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the front side of Karn's Bastion
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Color Identity: R

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Magistate's Scepter has at least two charge counters on it.

Mana Needed

  1. four generic manaone red mana each turn available.

Steps

  1. Activate Karn's Bastion's second ability by paying four generic mana and tapping it, putting a charge counter on Magistrate's Scepter.
  2. Activate Magistrate's Scepter's second ability by tapping it and removing three charge counters from it.
  3. Kurkesh triggers, causing you to pay one red mana to copy Magistrate's Scepter's ability.
  4. Resolve both Magistrate Scepter abilities, causing you to take two extra turns after this one.
  5. Move to your next turn.
  6. Activate Magistrate's Scepter's first ability by paying four generic mana and tapping it.
  7. Kurkesh triggers, causing you to pay one red mana to copy Magistrate's Scepter's ability.
  8. Resolve both Magistrate Scepter abilities, putting two charge counters on it.
  9. Move to your next turn.
  10. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite turns.

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