the front side of Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
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the front side of Food Chain
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: B, G

Initial Card State

  1.  Nadier and Food Chain on the battlefield.
  2.  Nadier must be your commander.

Mana Needed

  1. zero mana, plus increasingly more for each additional time Nadier has been cast from the command zone beyond the first available.

Steps

  1. Activate Food Chain by exiling Nadier, adding seven one black mana that can only be spent on creature spells.
  2. Choose to put Nadier from exile into the command zone.
  3. Nadier's second ability triggers, creating a number of 1/1 Elf tokens equal to its power.
  4. Cast Nadier by paying five generic manaone black mana plus commander tax.
  5. Activate Food Chain by exiling a 1/1 Elf token, adding one black mana that can only be spent on creature spells.
  6. Nadier triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on itself.
  7. Repeat from step 5 until you control no Elf tokens.
  8. Repeat.
  9. Once you have infinite mana, you may repeat without exiling the tokens.

Results

  1. Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature.
  2. Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
  3. Infinite commander casts.
  4. Infinite creature tokens.
  5. Infinite creature ETB.
  6. Infinite creature LTB.
  7. Infinite storm count.

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How much mana to start the Nadier loop?

Food Chain exiles Nadier for 7 mana and Nadier leaves an Elf per point of power. Recasting it costs 6 plus commander tax, and exiling the Elves afterwards makes 1 mana each and grows the new Nadier from 3 power. The tax grows by 2 a cycle and the Elves by 3, so after a few cycles the loop pays for itself.

Mana to startone generic mana

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two generic mana
Mana to start
Your mana, step by step
  • To start: one generic mana
  • Exile Nadier with Food Chain: eight generic mana
  • Recast it for eight generic mana: zero mana left
  • Exile its 3 Elves: three generic mana
  • Exile Nadier with Food Chain: ten generic mana
  • Recast it for ten generic mana: zero mana left
  • Exile its 6 Elves: six generic mana
  • Exile Nadier with Food Chain: thirteen generic mana
  • Recast it for twelve generic mana: one generic mana left
  • Exile its 9 Elves: ten generic mana
  • Exile Nadier with Food Chain: seventeen generic mana
  • Recast it for fourteen generic mana: three generic mana left
  • Exile its 12 Elves: fifteen generic mana
  • Exile Nadier with Food Chain: 22
  • Recast it for sixteen generic mana: six generic mana left
  • Exile its 15 Elves: 21
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