I want to know some of the best combos are that ya'll have come up with. They have to be original though, not something you read in a tips guide or on the internet. Obviously if you don't want to share some certain game winning ones, don't. And I'm not looking for these to use in a deck. Mine is far from combo, so I'm not just trying to find ideas here. I just want to hear some of the coolest, most clever stuff you all have come up with.
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I could give you all kinds of combos but, none of them are original. With thousands of players seeing the cards within minutes of being spoiled...any crazy interactions are spotted and made public knowledge almost instantaniously
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Current Decks
Standard BEtched Champion/InfectB WSoilders/knightsW WUVenser SplicerWU RRDWR GFeed the Pack comboG WUPool of ExhaustionWU
EDH GEzuri, Elf OverrunG BGeth, GraverobberB UThada Adel, ThiefU RUrabrask, Big RedR WElesh Norn, CrusadeW WUGAngus Makenzie, Bant ControlWUG
The problem with the internet (in regards to originality in combos) is that even ludicrously terrible combos are posted immediately after discovery. The only one that I've used and then learned was not on the internet was completely awful: Death Bomb and Blind Hunter. Since then, I've independently discovered plenty of powerful combos, but they all were pre-existing on the internet, and I simply hadn't encountered the posts before.
A few months ago I discovered an interaction in my Ghave deck I didn't realize existed: Eternal Witness + Profane Command. So long as X >= 3 and I have a sac outlet, I can cast Profane Command as many times as I like/have mana for.
I have found some really fun ways to break some fun cards. Phyrexian Dreadnought is usually not that crushing of a card to use but I put it in a deck with Banshee's Blade and several of the ArcboundCreatures so he would usually hit the table as a 24/24 trampler not just a 12/12 for 1.
Enchanted Evening making all the field...delicate. Aura Shards making all your creatures into vindicates. Mycoloth so you will never, ever keep a card out on your field.
Necrotic Ooze on the board with Paladium Myr and Pili-Pala in the grave equals infinite colored mana to spend on your big beefy creatures or burn spells.
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Jace bounce was a -1. He could do it 3 times before he would die. Liliana can only do it once before having to do her +1. Overall very disappointed with her unless we get Madness.
Crap, you're right, she's not as good as one of the single most overpowered cards ever printed. Unplayable!
Play Fiend Hunter exiling the existing Fiend Hunter, Champion gets a +1/+1 counter.
Attack with Sun Titan and Champion of the Parish, Titan ability triggers, bringing Fiend Hunter from graveyard to play, exiling the Hunter you played this turn (Champ gets another counter), which returns the first Fiend Hunter exiling the next one (Champ gets another counter), keep going until you are sick of the number of counters you have added to the Champ, at which time you exile a critter of the opponent and connect with an insanely huge Champion.
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I... wow. I just... Alright, I get this combo relies on an Unglued card, but the fact that it's possible to destroy an opponent's actual collection with cards printed by WotC is astounding.
I'm sure I've posted this elsewhere, but once more won't hurt. When we winston drafted a shadowmoor box, we gradually made decks out of what we opened and played with those as well (we were on the road- didn't have any other mtg supplies). Morselhoarder + Sinking Feeling + Power of Fire/Presence of Gond was a deck. It won more than a game.
This isn't a combo, really ... it's more of a dedicated attempt to shape a total mathematical absurdity from the game of Magic.
It's very long and involved, so to summarize, the goal is as follows: WITHOUT using ANY infinite loops, deal the largest amount of damage possible on turn 1 using a perfectly ordered 60-card Vintage-legal deck.
The result described on this page is an amount of damage so UNIMAGINABLY large that the mathematical notation required to express it is less than 40 years old. If you were to attempt to calculate and then write out this number in a normal base-10 format, you would not be able to even if you inscribed a digit on every Planck volume in the universe. You wouldn't even come close. The number is so unimaginably, incalculably, inexpressibly high that it's effectively greater than you can go with an honest-to-goodness infinite combo, since the rules of Magic require you to pick a number of times to iterate an infinite loop when you assemble one, and it's basically conceptually impossible to count as high as this combo can take you.
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I'm always looking for foil Madcap Skills and Ghitu Fire-Eater, [trade thread link forthcoming]
Play Fiend Hunter exiling the existing Fiend Hunter, Champion gets a +1/+1 counter.
Attack with Sun Titan and Champion of the Parish, Titan ability triggers, bringing Fiend Hunter from graveyard to play, exiling the Hunter you played this turn (Champ gets another counter), which returns the first Fiend Hunter exiling the next one (Champ gets another counter), keep going until you are sick of the number of counters you have added to the Champ, at which time you exile a critter of the opponent and connect with an insanely huge Champion.
You don't need a Sun Titan: you can simply play your Fiend Hunters one after the other. play FH A exiling something harmless, FH B exiling A, FH C exiling B; A returns, exiles C and the loop begins.
You don't need a Sun Titan: you can simply play your Fiend Hunters one after the other. play FH A exiling something harmless, FH B exiling A, FH C exiling B; A returns, exiles C and the loop begins.
No, you don't "need" the Sun Titan, but it does let you play the combo for only 3 mana instead of six (this turn, at least), allowing you to keep some mana open for a protection spell (cause you just know someone is going to try to Unsummon or Doom Blade the Champ when he gets huge).
Also, that lets you do the little pump up combo DURING the combat phase, meaning less ability to stop it.
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Standard: WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern: UR Twinning RU G Venus Fly Trap G U Artifacts Aggro U
Cast Phyrexian Metamorph, copying nothing. The anthem effect will keep it alive. Cast Rite of Replication, with kicker. Use 1 of the 5 metamorphs to copy Eternal Witness, with which you get Rite back, and the other 4 to copy Gilded Lotus. You can now loop this endlessly to generate infinite mana, regrow your entire graveyard, copy everything on the board, and usually from there you'll have no issues winning. If you add Coiled Oracle or Mulldrifter you can draw your whole deck and find some way to kill them.
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This isn't a combo, really ... it's more of a dedicated attempt to shape a total mathematical absurdity from the game of Magic.
It's very long and involved, so to summarize, the goal is as follows: WITHOUT using ANY infinite loops, deal the largest amount of damage possible on turn 1 using a perfectly ordered 60-card Vintage-legal deck.
The result described on this page is an amount of damage so UNIMAGINABLY large that the mathematical notation required to express it is less than 40 years old. If you were to attempt to calculate and then write out this number in a normal base-10 format, you would not be able to even if you inscribed a digit on every Planck volume in the universe. You wouldn't even come close. The number is so unimaginably, incalculably, inexpressibly high that it's effectively greater than you can go with an honest-to-goodness infinite combo, since the rules of Magic require you to pick a number of times to iterate an infinite loop when you assemble one, and it's basically conceptually impossible to count as high as this combo can take you.
Has anyone attempted this on Magic Online? Does it crash the program? Or the server, even?
Has anyone attempted this on Magic Online? Does it crash the program? Or the server, even?
MTGO will only allow you to have 200 tokens in play at a time. I also really liked that article.
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Odds of pulling a JtMS from a WWK pack: 1:80
Odds of pulling any specific rare in 5th Edition: 1:133
So, on average, 1 JtMS every 2.222 boxes or 1 Bird of Paradise every 3.694 boxes. Yeah, I'll take my odds with Mythics, they are easier to get than old rares.
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Gets even more sick with a Parallel Lives in play. 26 6/6's? Come at me, Bro!
And, right before you do it, swap life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness, you are then at 13 life with 40 6/6 tokens out. If you can't win the game there, you are really doing something wrong.
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Currently playing:
Standard: WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern: UR Twinning RU G Venus Fly Trap G U Artifacts Aggro U
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BEtched Champion/InfectB
WSoilders/knightsW
WUVenser SplicerWU
RRDWR
GFeed the Pack comboG
WUPool of ExhaustionWU
EDH
GEzuri, Elf OverrunG
BGeth, GraverobberB
UThada Adel, ThiefU
RUrabrask, Big RedR
WElesh Norn, CrusadeW
WUGAngus Makenzie, Bant ControlWUG
Extended
WGElvesWG
Legacy
RGoblinsR
UBGFariesUBG
UBGRaffinityUBG
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Auratog (trollface looking atog) hits the field with Enchanted Evening in play. Aura Thief comes down, is sacced as an enchantment to auratog...
and the world becomes mine!!!! muahahahhahaha
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Phyrexian Dreadnought is usually not that crushing of a card to use but I put it in a deck with Banshee's Blade and several of the Arcbound Creatures so he would usually hit the table as a 24/24 trampler not just a 12/12 for 1.
Another one that seemed to irk a lot of people was Teferi's Puzzle Box in a deck with Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar and Underworld Dreams.
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Brb, making new EDH deck.
What's up? Best deck in Standard.
Enchanted Evening making all the field...delicate.
Aura Shards making all your creatures into vindicates.
Mycoloth so you will never, ever keep a card out on your field.
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Also, I love:
1 Fiend Hunter in play.
1 Fiend Hunter in hand.
1 Fiend Hunter in graveyard.
1 Sun Titan in play.
1 Champion of the Parish in play.
Play Fiend Hunter exiling the existing Fiend Hunter, Champion gets a +1/+1 counter.
Attack with Sun Titan and Champion of the Parish, Titan ability triggers, bringing Fiend Hunter from graveyard to play, exiling the Hunter you played this turn (Champ gets another counter), which returns the first Fiend Hunter exiling the next one (Champ gets another counter), keep going until you are sick of the number of counters you have added to the Champ, at which time you exile a critter of the opponent and connect with an insanely huge Champion.
Standard:
WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern:
UR Twinning RU
G Venus Fly Trap G
U Artifacts Aggro U
Legacy:
B Reanimator B
WU Stoneblade UW
EDH
WBGGhave, Guru of SporesGBW
URGRiku of the Two ReflectionsGRU
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonGRBUW
Casual
Far too many to list
I... wow. I just... Alright, I get this combo relies on an Unglued card, but the fact that it's possible to destroy an opponent's actual collection with cards printed by WotC is astounding.
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I'm sure I've posted this elsewhere, but once more won't hurt. When we winston drafted a shadowmoor box, we gradually made decks out of what we opened and played with those as well (we were on the road- didn't have any other mtg supplies). Morselhoarder + Sinking Feeling + Power of Fire/Presence of Gond was a deck. It won more than a game.
oh sweet. also works with the splinter twin as well.
not really combo more card synergy.
Psychosis crawler + Time reversal
with Molten Psyche or Jace's archivist you can hit for another 7... it deals 14 easy.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
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This isn't a combo, really ... it's more of a dedicated attempt to shape a total mathematical absurdity from the game of Magic.
It's very long and involved, so to summarize, the goal is as follows: WITHOUT using ANY infinite loops, deal the largest amount of damage possible on turn 1 using a perfectly ordered 60-card Vintage-legal deck.
The result described on this page is an amount of damage so UNIMAGINABLY large that the mathematical notation required to express it is less than 40 years old. If you were to attempt to calculate and then write out this number in a normal base-10 format, you would not be able to even if you inscribed a digit on every Planck volume in the universe. You wouldn't even come close. The number is so unimaginably, incalculably, inexpressibly high that it's effectively greater than you can go with an honest-to-goodness infinite combo, since the rules of Magic require you to pick a number of times to iterate an infinite loop when you assemble one, and it's basically conceptually impossible to count as high as this combo can take you.
Thanks to Gabgabdevo for the awesome sig image!
I'm always looking for foil Madcap Skills and Ghitu Fire-Eater, [trade thread link forthcoming]
YOU'LL NEVER GET MY HAAKON, STROMGALD SCOURGE! BAHAHAHAHA!
What's that? Zombie Infestation?
FUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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Big Johnny.
I figured out I could cycle 3x Oblivion Rings like this two years ago, but I didn't have a useful payload. For 3x Fiend Hunters there are at least two payloads in standard: Champion of the Parish and Mentor of the Meek.
You don't need a Sun Titan: you can simply play your Fiend Hunters one after the other. play FH A exiling something harmless, FH B exiling A, FH C exiling B; A returns, exiles C and the loop begins.
No, you don't "need" the Sun Titan, but it does let you play the combo for only 3 mana instead of six (this turn, at least), allowing you to keep some mana open for a protection spell (cause you just know someone is going to try to Unsummon or Doom Blade the Champ when he gets huge).
Also, that lets you do the little pump up combo DURING the combat phase, meaning less ability to stop it.
Standard:
WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern:
UR Twinning RU
G Venus Fly Trap G
U Artifacts Aggro U
Legacy:
B Reanimator B
WU Stoneblade UW
EDH
WBGGhave, Guru of SporesGBW
URGRiku of the Two ReflectionsGRU
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonGRBUW
Casual
Far too many to list
On the board:
Any effect that gives all of your guys +X/+Y, where Y<0. I use Mirari's Wake or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Eternal Witness
Gilded Lotus
In Hand:
Phyrexian Metamorph
Rite of Replication
Combo
Cast Phyrexian Metamorph, copying nothing. The anthem effect will keep it alive. Cast Rite of Replication, with kicker. Use 1 of the 5 metamorphs to copy Eternal Witness, with which you get Rite back, and the other 4 to copy Gilded Lotus. You can now loop this endlessly to generate infinite mana, regrow your entire graveyard, copy everything on the board, and usually from there you'll have no issues winning. If you add Coiled Oracle or Mulldrifter you can draw your whole deck and find some way to kill them.
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Has anyone attempted this on Magic Online? Does it crash the program? Or the server, even?
MTGO will only allow you to have 200 tokens in play at a time. I also really liked that article.
Odds of pulling any specific rare in 5th Edition: 1:133
So, on average, 1 JtMS every 2.222 boxes or 1 Bird of Paradise every 3.694 boxes. Yeah, I'll take my odds with Mythics, they are easier to get than old rares.
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Gets even more sick with a Parallel Lives in play. 26 6/6's? Come at me, Bro!
And, right before you do it, swap life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness, you are then at 13 life with 40 6/6 tokens out. If you can't win the game there, you are really doing something wrong.
Standard:
WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern:
UR Twinning RU
G Venus Fly Trap G
U Artifacts Aggro U
Legacy:
B Reanimator B
WU Stoneblade UW
EDH
WBGGhave, Guru of SporesGBW
URGRiku of the Two ReflectionsGRU
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonGRBUW
Casual
Far too many to list