Color Identity: U, B

Initial Card State

  1.  Stunning Reversal in exile (exiled by Elite Arcanist).
  2.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. You control a land that can produce ({B} magic symbol)  .
  2. You are about to lose the game.
  3. Elite Arcanist does not have summoning sickness.

Mana Needed

  1. ({4} magic symbol)   available.

Steps

  1. Activate Elite Arcanist by paying ({4} magic symbol)   and tapping it, casting and resolving a copy of Stunning Reversal without paying its mana cost.
  2. Let the event that would cause you to lose happen, but instead draw seven cards and set your life total to 1.
  3. Activate Mind Over Matter seven times by discarding seven cards, untapping Elite Arcanist and six lands you control.
  4. Activate those lands by tapping them, adding ({5} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  .
  5. Activate Jinxed Ring by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton.
  6. Jinxed Ring triggers.
  7. In response, activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying ({1} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  , returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  8. Activate Elite Arcanist by paying ({4} magic symbol)   and tapping it, casting and resolving a copy of Stunning Reversal without paying its mana cost.
  9. Let the Jinxed Ring trigger resolve, dealing 1 damage to you.
  10. Repeat from step 2 until there are fewer than seven cards remaining in your library.
  11. Resolve all Jinxed Ring abilities, causing an opponent to gain control of Jinxed Ring.

Results

  1. Near-infinite death triggers.
  2. Near-infinite ETB.
  3. Near-infinite lifegain triggers.
  4. Near-infinite looting.
  5. Near-infinite LTB.
  6. Near-infinite sacrifice triggers.
  7. Near-infinite self-discard triggers.

Metadata

  1. In 0 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

This combo has been estimated to be Exhibition (Bracket 1+).



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