the front side of Helga, Skittish Seer
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Mind Over Matter
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Palinchron
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: G, W, U

Initial Card State

  1.  Palinchron in hand.
  2.  Helga and Mind Over Matter on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Helga does not have summoning sickness and has power 4 or greater.
  2. You control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least two generic manaone blue manaone blue mana, plus an amount of generic mana equal to seven generic mana minus Helga's power.

Steps

  1. Activate Helga by tapping it, adding at least one blue manaone blue manaone blue manaone blue mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X generic mana in their mana cost.
  2. Activate up to seven lands by tapping them, adding at least two generic manaone blue manaone blue mana, plus up to an additional three generic mana if needed.
  3. Cast Palinchron by paying five generic manaone blue manaone blue mana.
  4. Helga triggers, causing you to draw a card, gain 1 life and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga.
  5. When Palinchron enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping up to seven lands.
  6. Activate Palinchron by paying two generic manaone blue manaone blue mana, returning it from the battlefield to your hand.
  7. Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding a card, untapping Helga.
  8. Repeat.

Notes

  1. If you have enough leftover mana to cast Palinchron, you can instead substitute untapping another permanent instead of Helga.

Results

  1. Infinite self-discard triggers.
  2. Near-infinite lifegain.
  3. Near-infinite lifegain triggers.
  4. Near-infinite creature ETB.
  5. Infinite draw triggers.
  6. Infinite looting.
  7. Near-infinite storm count.
  8. Near-infinite creature LTB.
  9. Near-infinite untap of permanents you control.
  10. Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature.
  11. Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost.
  12. Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce.
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