The original combo had "another creature or way to damage sekki" included, so Sprouting Phytohydra does work as a refutation for any Parallel Lives+Blasting Station combo, unfortunately.
I got him with the stealth edit after he quoted my initial post. Not on purpose, obviously. I'm just immensely indecisive.
You don't need to put +1/+1 counters on Sekki, Seasons' Guide in order to go infinite, you just need to make sure it doesn't die as a state based effect for having zero toughness.
Step 1) Ping Sekki, Sekki's second ability triggers, creating two tokens with Parallel Lives
Step 2) Blasting Station's untap ability triggers twice, use one untap and a token to ping a player and the other to ping Sekki. Repeat until the table is dead.
I don't know if the premise (that the only infinite combos with Multani's Presence involve turning it into a virtual Recycle) is true, but if it is then your conclusion (Recycle refutes every Multani's Presence combo) looks right to me.
After having re-read Recycle, I noticed that it cares about cards played, whereas Multani's Presence cares about spells cast. Since you can cast copies of spells that are not necessarily cards (and counter them too), you can build a draw engine from Multani's Presence that you could not build with Recycle.
EDIT: However, there are only 10 cards containing the phrase, "cast the copy" in all of Magic. Of those 10 cards,the most promising ones look to be Elite Arcanist, Eye of the Storm, and Isochron Scepter. All of these can go infinite without Multani's Presence.
I think that all of the infinite combos involving Multani's Presence require you to build your own Recycle. If so, how does Recycle not refute all of these?
Edit: replacing Grim Poppet with Quillspike removes the need for Hapatra at all, though.
Haha. I made the same goofy mistake :c
Tuskcaller doesn't produce enough creatures to untap itself with Umbral Mantle and Phyrexian Altar.
This doesn't work because tracker can't make Sekki fight itself.
1) Equip Sekki with Thornbite Staff and Viridian Longbow, have it ping itself, creating a spirit.
2) Sacrifice the spirit to Altar of Dementia, untapping Sekki with the Thornbite Staff trigger. Repeat until everyone is milled to death.
I got him with the stealth edit after he quoted my initial post. Not on purpose, obviously. I'm just immensely indecisive.
Sekki, Seasons' Guide + Gaea's Anthem + Parallel Lives + Blasting Station and any creature or way to damage Sekki is sufficient to combo out in monogreen.
Step 1) Ping Sekki, Sekki's second ability triggers, creating two tokens with Parallel Lives
Step 2) Blasting Station's untap ability triggers twice, use one untap and a token to ping a player and the other to ping Sekki. Repeat until the table is dead.
After having re-read Recycle, I noticed that it cares about cards played, whereas Multani's Presence cares about spells cast. Since you can cast copies of spells that are not necessarily cards (and counter them too), you can build a draw engine from Multani's Presence that you could not build with Recycle.
EDIT: However, there are only 10 cards containing the phrase, "cast the copy" in all of Magic. Of those 10 cards,the most promising ones look to be Elite Arcanist, Eye of the Storm, and Isochron Scepter. All of these can go infinite without Multani's Presence.
Elite Arcanist + Evermind + Paradox Engine = Draw your deck
Eye of the Storm + Call to Mind (or any variation thereof) + Pull from Eternity + Twiddle = Arbitrary casts of every other instant/sorcery exiled with Eye of the Storm
Isochron Scepter + Manamorphose + Paradox Engine = Draw your deck
Also, I think the best way to build your own Recycle with Multani's Presence is with Cephalid Shrine.