the front side of Briar Hydra
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Sage of Hours
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: G, U

Initial Card State

  1.  Briar Hydra and Sage of Hours on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Briar Hydra does not have summoning sickness.
  2. You control a land of each basic land type.
  3. An opponent is unable to block and kill Briar Hydra.

Steps

  1. Deal combat damage to an opponent using Briar Hydra.
  2. Briar Hydra triggers, putting five +1/+1 counters on Sage of Hours.
  3. Activate Sage of Hours by removing all +1/+1 counters from it, causing you to take at least one additional turn after this one.
  4. Repeat each turn.

Results

  1. Infinite turns.

Metadata

  1. This combo produces a lock.
  2. In 18 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

This combo has been estimated to be Ruthless (Bracket 4+).



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