the front side of Ghave, Guru of Spores
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the front side of Geralf's Messenger
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the front side of Cryptic Trilobite
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Color Identity: W, B, G

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Geralf's Messenger does not have a +1/+1 counter on it.

Mana Needed

  1. one generic mana available.

Steps

  1. Activate Ghave's second ability by paying one generic mana and sacrificing Geralf's Messenger.
  2. Geralf's Messenger's undying ability triggers, returning Geralf's Messenger from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
  3. Geralf's Messenger enters the battlefield tapped, causing an opponent to lose 2 life.
  4. Resolve the Ghave ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on Cryptic Trilobite.
  5. Activate Cryptic Trilobite by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, adding one colorless manaone colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities.
  6. Activate Ghave's first ability by paying one generic mana and removing a +1/+1 counter from Geralf's Messenger, creating a 1/1 Saproling creature token.
  7. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities.
  2. Infinite creature tokens.
  3. Infinite creature ETB.
  4. Infinite lifeloss.
  5. Infinite creature LTB.
  6. Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control.

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