the front side of Molten-Core Maestro
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Searing Touch
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: R

Initial Card State

  1.  Searing Touch in hand.
  2.  Molten-Core Maestro on the battlefield (with power 4 or greater).

Mana Needed

  1. ({4} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)   available.

Steps

  1. Cast Searing Touch with buyback by paying ({4} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  .
  2. Molten-Core Maestro triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it and adding an amount of ({R} magic symbol)   equal to its power.
  3. Resolve Searing Touch, dealing 1 damage to any target and returning it to your hand.
  4. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature.
  2. Infinite damage.
  3. Infinite magecraft triggers.
  4. Infinite red mana.
  5. Infinite storm count.

Metadata

  1. In 42 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

This combo has been estimated to be Powerful (Bracket 3+).



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