the front side of Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
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the front side of Replenish
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the front side of Resourceful Defense
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Saga with Read Ahead
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Color Identity: R, W

Initial Card State

  1.  Replenish in hand.
  2.  Resourceful Defense on the battlefield.
  3.  Summon: Esper Valigarmanda and Saga with Read Ahead in your graveyard.

Mana Needed

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

Steps

  1. Cast Replenish by paying ({3} magic symbol)  ({W} magic symbol)  , returning Summon: Esper Valigarmanda and the read-ahead Saga from your graveyard to the battlefield. Choose to have the read-ahead Saga enter with enough lore counters on it to trigger its final chapter ability.
  2. Summon: Esper Valigarmanda's first chapter ability and each chapter ability from the read-ahead Saga trigger.
  3. Resolve the Summon: Esper Valigarmanda trigger, exiling Replenish from your graveyard.
  4. Resolve each trigger from the read-ahead Saga, and put it into your graveyard when you resolve its final chapter ability.
  5. Resourceful Defense triggers, putting a number of lore counters on Summon: Esper Valigarmanda equal to the number of lore counters that were on the read-ahead Saga, triggering Summon: Esper Valigarmanda's second, third and fourth chapter abilities.
  6. Resolve the second and third chapter triggers, adding ({R} magic symbol)  ({R} magic symbol)   for each lore counter on Summon: Esper Valigarmanda.
  7. Resolve the fourth chapter trigger, adding ({R} magic symbol)   for each lore counter on Summon: Esper Valigarmanda and causing you to pay ({4} magic symbol)   to cast Replenish from exile, returning Summon: Esper Valigarmanda and the read-ahead Saga from your graveyard to the battlefield. Choose to have the read-ahead Saga enter with enough lore counters on it to trigger its final chapter ability.
  8. Repeat from step 2.

Results

  1. Infinite LTB.
  2. Infinite ETB.
  3. Infinite sacrifice triggers.
  4. Infinite death triggers.
  5. Infinite storm count.
  6. Infinite red mana.
  7. Infinite magecraft triggers.
  8. Infinite recursion of enchantment cards in your graveyard.
  9. Infinite casts of instant and sorcery cards in opponents' graveyards.

Metadata

  1. In 39 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

This combo has been estimated to be Exhibition (Bracket 1+).



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