the front side of Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
the back side of Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
the front side of Haunted Crossroads
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Phyrexian Altar
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: B, R, G

Initial Card State

  1.  Etali in hand.
  2.  Haunted Crossroads and Phyrexian Altar on the battlefield.

Mana Needed

  1. five generic manaone red manaone red mana available.

Steps

  1. Cast Etali by paying five generic manaone red manaone red mana.
  2. When Etali enters the battlefield, it triggers.
  3. Holding priority, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Etali, adding one black mana.
  4. Activate Haunted Crossroads by paying one black mana, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard.
  5. Resolve the Etali trigger from step 2, 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.
  6. Repeat from step 2.

Results

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

Metadata

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OddballBracket 2-3+

Probably 2 or 3, but hard to classify

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