Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink | There and Back Again | Thornbite Staff
Color Identity: R
Initial Card State
- All permanents on the battlefield.
Notable Prerequisites
- Orthion does not have summoning sickness.
- Thornbite Staff attached to Orthion.
- There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.
Mana Needed
- ({1} magic symbol) ({R} magic symbol) available.
Steps
- At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it.
- There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again.
- Activate Orthion's first ability by paying ({1} magic symbol) ({R} magic symbol) and tapping it, creating a token copy of Smaug with haste.
- Put either Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- When the Smaug token dies, it and Orthion trigger.
- Resolve the Smaug trigger, creating fourteen Treasure tokens.
- Resolve the Orthion trigger, untapping it.
- Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding ({1} magic symbol) ({R} magic symbol) .
- Repeat from step 3.
Results
- Infinite colored mana.
- Infinite death triggers.
- Infinite ETB.
- Infinite LTB.
- Infinite Treasure tokens.
Metadata
- In 55 decks according to EDHREC.
Bracket Tag
This combo has been estimated to be Exhibition (Bracket 1+).
