Color Identity: B

Initial Card State

  1.  Doomsday in hand.
  2.  Commander's Sphere on the battlefield.
  3.   All other permanents in your graveyard or in your library.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. You have at least 11 life.

Mana Needed

  1. ({3} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)   available.

Steps

  1. Cast Doomsday by paying ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  , searching your library and graveyard for Bolas's Citadel, Aetherflux Reservoir, two other cards with mana value 2 or less, and Black Sun's Zenith, and then placing the remaining cards on top of your library in the order previously listed and losing half your life, rounded up.
  2. Activate Commander's Sphere's first ability by tapping it, adding one mana of any color.
  3. Activate Commander's Sphere's second ability by sacrificing it, causing you to draw a card.
  4. Cast Bolas's Citadel by paying ({3} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  .
  5. Cast Aetherflux Reservoir from your library by paying 4 life.
  6. Cast two other cards with mana value 2 or less.
  7. Aetherflux Reservoir triggers, gaining you 1 life for each spell you have cast this turn.
  8. Cast Black Sun's Zenith by paying 2 life and shuffling it into the library.
  9. Aetherflux Reservoir triggers, gaining you 1 life for each spell you have cast this turn.
  10. Repeat until your life total is 53 or greater.
  11. Activate Aetherflux Reservoir by paying 50 life, dealing 50 damages to any target.
  12. Repeat from step 8.

Results

  1. Infinite damage.
  2. Infinite lifegain.
  3. Infinite lifegain triggers.
  4. Infinite storm count.

Metadata

  1. In 134 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

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



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