New "Infinity" Combos. -- updated 5/28/08

Infinite Mana.  And here is how it works: With all three cards in play, sacrifice the Scuzzleback Marauders to the Altar and add a mana of any color to your mana pool.  The persist ability will trigger and bring the Marauders back into play with a -1/-1 counter.  Because it is a Warrior, Bramblewood Paragon will give it a +1/+1 counter when it comes into play.   The two counters will combine into no counter and you are back where we began.  Keep sacrificing the Marauders for infinite mana. This combo was submitted by Dratho.

How to make this infinite:  You can fling the Juniper Order Ranger for infinite damage, give the Ranger trample and attack or simply add a sacrifice outlet like Nantuko Husk and deal that 2 damage each time to your opponent, doing infinite damage.  With Mother of Runes you can go infinite life... and so on.

Infinite Damage!  And this one was submitted to me via email by Silk.  Thanks, Silk.  Here's how it works: Enchant Morselhoarder with both Power of Fire and Sinking Feeling.  Let's assume it still has two -1/-1 counters on it.  Tap the Morselhoarder to deal a damage to something or someone.  Remove a counter from Morselhoarder to add a mana to your mana pool (color is irrelevant). Use that mana to untap Morselhoarder with Sinking Feeling and put a -1/-1 counter on Morsehoarder as part of the cost to untap it.  You should now be back where you were.  Continue for infinite damage. 

Enchant a Forest with the Sprawl and name white.  Assume Order, Earthcraft, Borderguard (with one +1/+1 counter), and Altar are in play. Sacrifice the Borderguard to the Altar and add one white mana to your mana pool. As a result of the Borderguard's leaves play ability, put a 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature token into play.

Using Earthcraft, tap the Order to untap the Forest enchanted with the Sprawl.  Now tap the enchanted Forest to add GW to your mana pool.  With the GWW in your mana pool, untap the Order to return the Borderguard to play (with at least one +1/+1 counter on it thanks to the Order). 

Repeat for infinite creatures.  It's a bit clunky, but it works; consider the fact that both creatures involved in the combo are Kithkin...

Use one U (of UU) to untap the Leech Bonder and move one of its -1/-1 counters to another creature. Assume you don't kill that creature.  Repeat the earlier steps to keep moving that -1/-1 counter back and forth from one creature to another and each time you do this you net an extra mana in your mana pool.  Use that mana for whatever your heart desires. 

Tekkactus suggests Drowner of Secrets as a means to tap down the Leech Bonder (or other Q creatures) should you not own any Paradise Mantles. Epileptic Cricket recommends Quicksilver Dagger...

Note: Leech Bonder & Paradise Mantle can replace the two Grim Poppets for the same effect.

Infinite Mana. Infinite Creatures.  With all three cards in play, and the Mantle attached to your Schoolmaster, tap the Schoolmaster to add one mana of any color to your mana pool.  His own ability will activate and you will get a 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature token.  The entry of this creature into play will activate Intruder Alarm and you will be back at the beginning.  Repeat for infinite creatures and infinite mana.   

You can substitute Paradise mantle for Ocular Halo for infinite card drawing or Drowner of Secrets for infinite milling.  You can even add Judge of Currents for infinite life.  The Merfolk seem to have infinite possibilities...  Submitted by YWN.

AlasterEisaroh, a Forum [Wizard], recommends adding Supreme Inquisitor, Opposition or Glare of Subdual for more fun.

Now, if I understand this correctly, when you play it again without paying its mana cost, it will again be countered by Dovescape... and then removed from the game to be played again.  This will generate an infinite loop until you choose not to play the spell again.  This infinite loop will generate infinite creatures from Dovescape.

Note: If I am wrong in my analysis of the card interactions, please let me know.  Guild's ability is a replacement effect, but Dovescape will be the original cause of the replacement effect and thus will still trigger the token generation. *crosses fingers* Submitted by Kenneth Peltokangas.

Note: Multani's Prescence does NOT work with Guile because Guile's ability is a replacement effect so the card is never really countered.

Infinite Damage!  With all three cards in play and Deathrender attached to the Fanatic, sacrifice the Fanatic to deal one damage to an opponent (or creature).  Because Enduring Renewal is a replacement effect, it affects the Mogg Fanatic during the resolution of the trigger from Deathrender. And thus, you can take that same Fanatic from your hand (that just got there thanks to Renewal) and put it into play with Deathrender attached to it. 

Replace Mogg Fanatic with other creatures that sacrifice for free with an effect for other types of infinity.

The Time Vault comes into play tapped.  You untap it during your next untap phase and skip a turn.  However, you can tap it to get an extra turn after this and duplicate it with Rings of Brighthearth.  So you gain two turns and lose one turn.  So you still get an extra turn.  Use that turn and repeat the process.  You net infinite turns from this. Submitted by Aneximines.

Here's to hoping I explained this right...

Infinite Damage! Without the Grapeshot, this is in infinite loop combo capable of super-high storm counts.  With the Grapeshot your can deal infinite damage.  How does it work?

With both the Basal Sliver, Skeletal Changeling and Haakon in play, know that the Skeletal Changeling is all creatures types so it is a Sliver and a Knight.  You can sacrifice the Changeling for BB.  Then you can use Haakon's ability to replay it from your graveyard with that two mana.  Repeat this as many times as you like and then follow up with a Grapeshot for infinite damage.

INFINITE DAMAGE!  Note this was partially submitted by Aneximines.  Tidewater Minion can tap to untap himself (itself really) as many times as you like.  Ceaseless Searblades get +1/+0 every time an activated ability of an elemental is played.  And thus, the two cards interact to net your Searblades infinite power.  Add Fling to the mix and suddenly you can deal infinite damage to a target.  Sounds like fun to me. 

Note that if Tidewater Minion isn't your cup of tea you could always add Unnatural Selection and substitute the Minion for Seeker of Skybreak or Aphetto Alchemist.  As long as the creature can keep tapping itself to untap itself, you are good to fuel the Searblades.  Obviously, you'll want to make it an elemental with Selection...

Until Wizards of the Coast gave the Drake errata, which reads "if you played it from your hand...", this combo was an excellent way to make your opponent cringe.  The way it worked was that you enchanted the Drake with Demise and then sacked it to the Goblin Bombardment.  Because of the ability on Demise, the Drake came back into play, and because the ability on the Drake so did the Demise.  You could repeat this combo until you were blue in the face, or until you opponent died from Bombardment damage.  Too bad the combo no longer works.  

UPDATE: 7/15/07 - The previously added errata was removed.  The combo works again!

Great Whale used to untap up to seven lands whenever it came into play from anywhere, including the graveyard. So the trick was to get it into play using less than seven mana. With seven lands in play, a Whale in the graveyard, any other creature in play, and a Recurring Nightmare in hand, a loop could be created. Tap all seven, spend three to Recur the Whale into play, untap all seven, and spend three more to Recur the Whale back into the graveyard. Now the board is in the same state, except you've netted one mana. Repeat. With two Whales you can pull this off with only four land.  This combo was  found on and quoted from www.magicthegathering.com.

UPDATE: 7/15/07 - The previously added errata was removed.  The combo works again!

Palinchron has errata on it.  To specify, www.crystalkeep.com states the following:

The errata makes it so you only untap lands if it comes into play by being cast from your hand. It does not untap lands if put into play as the effect of a spell or ability, even if it is put into play from your hand. [DCI Tournament Update 1999/03/01]

The way this worked when it was legal: With several lands out, spend one red mana to bring out Palinchron and untap 7 lands.  Spend four mana to put it back into your hand and repeat.  Assuming you have floating mana left after the first, you will build an insane amount of controlled mana which you can use for just about anything.

UPDATE: 7/15/07 - The previously added errata was removed.  The combo works again!

This is a tricky combo that started off as just a Jedit - Yavimaya card interaction submitted by Niv-Mizzet_Rulez!  Then uber_panda suggested adding Breath of Fury for infinite damage.  Then YWN quickly advised you needed to give the tokens haste for the combo to work.  Phew.

In the end, here's what happens: Have Jedit, a 2/2 green Cat Warrior token and Mass Hysteria in play. Note: Yavimaya is the card that enables all of your cats to be unblockable since she gives your opponent a forest.  Otherwise, she doesn't matter to the sequence of this combo.  The token needs to be enchanted with Breath of Fury.  Attack with Jedit and token.  Jedit generates another token.  Jedit and the original token are unblockable and thus they deal damage.  Sacrifice Breath of Fury and attach it to the new token.  Untap Jedit.  Now attack with the new token, which has haste thanks to Mass Hysteria and Jedit.  Repeat to inflict potentially infinite damage.

Wizard's said themselves they were worried about Timeshifting Enduring Renewal for the same reason Enduring Renewal was dangerous back in the day: infinite combos.  This time around those pieces are different: Grapeshot and Wild Cantor.  For those who didn't know, the old pieces were Goblin Bombardment and 0cc artifacts (like Phyrexian Walker).

How it works: With Enduring Ideal in play, Wild Cantor in play and Grapeshot in hand, Sacrifice Wild Cantor to add a red or green mana to your mana pool.  Enduring Renewal will return Wild Cantor to your hand.  Use the mana you generator from the Cantor previously to cast it again.  Repeat this infinite times.  Then cast Grapeshot to infinite damage. [Enduring Plans]