Thousand-Faced Shadow
Palinchron
Covert Technician
Prerequisites
What do I need to start this combo?
| Thousand-Faced Shadow in hand. | |
| Palinchron and Covert Technician on the battlefield. | |
Covert Technician and Palinchron do not have summoning sickness.
An opponent cannot block Covert Technician or Palinchron.
You control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least  . |
Steps
How does this combo work?
1 | Declare Palinchron and Covert Technician as attackers. |
2 | When they aren't blocked, activate up to seven lands you control by tapping them, adding at least . |
3 | Activate Thousand-Faced Shadow's ninjutsu ability by paying  and returning Covert Technician from the battlefield to your hand, putting Thousand-Faced Shadow onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking. |
4 | When Thousand-Faced Shadow enters the battlefield, it triggers, creating a token copy of Palinchron that is tapped and attacking. |
5 | When the Palinchron token enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping up to seven lands. |
6 | Activate Covert Technician's ninjutsu ability by paying  and returning Thousand-Faced Shadow from the battlefield to your hand, putting Covert Technician onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking. |
7 | Repeat from step 2. |
8 | Deal combat damage using the Palinchron tokens, dealing infinite combat damage to the defending opponent. |
9 | If you control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least  , this combo nets infinite mana. |
Results
What do I get from this combo?
| Infinite combat damage to one opponent | |
| Infinite creature tokens | |
| Infinite ETB | |
| Infinite LTB | |
| Infinite mana lands you control can produce | |
| Infinite untap of lands you control |
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3
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Any combos that require 3 or more cards are allowed
4-5
Optimized and CEDH
(all combos are allowed)
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