the front side of Vadrok, Apex of Thunder
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the front side of Frontline Heroism
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Snap
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Color Identity: U, R, W

Initial Card State

  1.  Frontline Heroism on the battlefield.
  2.  Snap in your graveyard.
  3.   Vadrok in hand or in the command zone.

Easy Prerequisites

  1. You control a non-Human creature.
  2. You control up to two lands that can tap to produce at least ({WU} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  .

Mana Needed

  1. ({1} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)   plus commander tax if applicable available.

Steps

  1. Activate up to two lands by tapping them, adding at least ({WU} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  .
  2. Cast Vadrok either from your hand or from the command zone for its mutate cost by paying ({1} magic symbol)  ({WU} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)   plus commander tax, if applicable, targeting a non-Human creature you control.
  3. Frontline Heroism's second ability triggers, creating a 1/1 Soldier creature token with haste, and then copying the Vadrok spell targeting the Soldier.
  4. Resolve the copy of the Vadrok spell, putting it underneath the Soldier token.
  5. The Vadrok and Soldier token trigger, casting Snap from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
  6. Resolve Snap, returning a creature from the battlefield to its owner's hand and untapping up to two lands.
  7. Holding priority, activate up to two lands by tapping them, adding at least ({WU} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)  .
  8. Resolve the original Vadrok spell, putting it underneath the creature it targeted.
  9. The Vadrok mutated creature triggers, casting Snap from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
  10. Resolve Snap, returning the nontoken Vadrok mutated creature from the battlefield to its owner's hand and untapping up to two lands.
  11. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite LTB.
  2. Infinite ETB.
  3. Infinite storm count.
  4. Infinite magecraft triggers.
  5. Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard.
  6. Return any number of creatures to their owners' hands.
  7. Infinite mana lands you control can produce.
  8. Infinite untap of lands you control.

Metadata

  1. In 198 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

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



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