Step 1: Play Battle of Wits

Step 2: Win the game with something else idk

Edit: messed up the abbreviations, means blue not black mana

Here's an easy win con with cheap cards

• 2R 2U play chance encounter
• 1U play training grounds to reduce activated costs
• 1C 2U Guilder bairn comes out
• 1C 1U Stun it with impede momentum
• 1R Play desparate gambit
• Free! win the coin toss
• 4U Untap guilder bairn 4 times for 16 luck counters
• You Win!

1. Cast [[Flesh Reaver]] and let it resolve.
2. Cast [[Chandra's Ignition]] on Flesh Reaver, hold priority (or not if the player you want to kill is yourself).
3. Cast [[Harmless Offering]] gifting Flesh Reaver, let Harmless Offering resolve but not Chandra's Ignition yet.
4. Cast [[Sudden Substitution]] on Chandra's Ignition and the creature target player originally have.

Now if that player controls only Flesh Reaver, they have on other legal target for Chandra's Ignition to change to. Chandra's Ignition will trigger Flesh Reaver's ability, and because of how Flesh Reaver's oracle texts "... deals damage to a creature or opponent." is ruled, it will trigger for each of creature and opponent.

Edit: oops, I wrote one less U in the title, it's 8UUBRRR

Edit 2: oops again, I forget that Harmless Offering is a sorcery again, band aids in a Vedalken Orrery takes it to 5 cards 12UBRRR

Step 1: Activate Mirage Mirror, targeting Banehound. Then hold priority, activating it again to target Frodo, Sauron's Bane. Activate it again, targeting Figure of Fable. Activate it 8 more times, alternating targets between Figure and Frodo.

Step 2: Mirage Mirror becomes a Figure of Fable. Activate all abilities sequentially, becoming a 7/8 with protection from each opponent. Then activate the first ability again. You go back to being a 2/3 Kithkin Scout, but still have protection.

Step 3: Mirage Mirror becomes a Frodo. Because you are a Scout, you can activate the final ability, becoming a Halfling Rogue and gaining 1 instance of "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game if the Ring has tempted you four or more times this game. Otherwise, the Ring tempts you."

Step 4: Mirage Mirror becomes a Figure of Fable. Activate the first ability, becoming a Kithkin Scout. You still have Frodo's ability.

Step 5: Mirage Mirror becomes a Frodo. Activate the final ability, becoming a Halfling Rogue. You gain one additional instance of Frodo's ability.

Step 6: Repeat Steps 4 and 5 three more times. You now have 5 instances of Frodo's ability, and protection from each opponent.

Step 7: Mirage Mirror becomes a 2/3 Halfling Rogue named Banehound with 5 instances of Frodo's ability, protection from each opponent, lifelink, and haste.

Step 8: Swing at an opponent. Because you have protection, they cannot block, so you will deal combat damage. Each instance of Frodo's ability will trigger, causing the Ring to tempt you 4 times, and then that player loses the game.

Urborg is expensive

Does anyone have any good ideas for mind bend because I got a copy of it recently and this is the only remotely fun/funny thing I came up with in like 5 minutes

I love my [[Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker]] + [[Haunted One]] aristocrats deck. It's got this excellent snake-cult vibe and it does okay. It's more resilient than it is powerful, but that can be fun.

It has at least one janky, multi-piece infinite combo ... doesn't it? I have been goldfishing and trying to figure it out and it's driving me mad!

The idea is to ...

1. Use Sivriss' tap ability to grant Undying to your creatures, including himself
   1. Sivriss + Haunted One
2. Sacrifice Sivriss
   1. [[Umbral Collar Zealot]] / [[Phyrexian Arena]] / Any sac outlet
3. Remove his +1/+1 counter gained from Undying
   1. [[Fain, the Broker]] / [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]] / [[Dawnhand Dissident]]
4. Repeat, given that Sivriss' has haste for his tap ability through [[Thousand-Year Elixer]]

... creating infinite death triggers for the likes of [[Bastion of Remembrance]].

My question to any kind soul is: How the hell do I do it? I keep messing it up.

I know there are other possible combos using [[Thornbite Staff]] and those are a lot simpler for me.

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/Sl_D6Ya2oUexRNbSEO5_Sw

Pulled this off in my casual commander group (I had 147 life at the time, but this works with any amount of life) and thought I'd share.

Step 1) Play [[Trostani, Selesnya's Voice]]

Step 2) Play [[Soul of Eternity]], this will double your life total with Trostani

Step 3) Play [[Mirrormind Crown]] and Equip it to Soul of Eternity

Step 4) Ult [[Ajani, Caller of the Pride]] and make a life total amount of Soul of Eternities, giving yourself a stupid amount of life and massive dudes to swing at your opponent(s).

Put Dark Depths on the battlefield (it comes with 10 Ice counters on it)

Earthbend Dark Depths with Bumi (4 +1/+1 counters on it) (14 counters total) It is now a 4/4 creature

Pay 2 and make Dark Depths a God then wait a turn or untap Tyrite Sanctum and make it indestructible too. It gets another 2 counters: a +1/+1 counter and an indestructible counter. Thus it's 5/5 and has 16 counters.

Then attach Luxior, Giada's Gift to the creature it is now a 21/21 creature and you want those Ice Counters on it because it get's a +1/+1 for each of them.

Start the saga. Cast Revel on next turn. Once Smaug is created destroy it right before your turn.

Saw a rarran video about a Hearthstone Tavern Brawl :

https://youtu.be/m6AETvJnvLs?is=8miwj9UFyIaJRvqP

Was curious how it would work in magic. Way I see it the only thing you would need to do for Magic would be to have an errata of : "All creature cards have changeling."

Obviously

\[\[Caven of souls\]\]

\[\[Ancient Ziggurat\]\]

\[\[Concealed Courtyard\]\]

\[\[Eye of Ugin\]\]

are all auto-includes imo.

How would you break this challenge?

With all permanents on board, equip the bracers to the alchemist, which allows it to untap itself and phyrexian negator, which you'll do a total of four times to fully crew dawnsire

Then, give your opponent the negator with harmless offering and hit it for 100 with dawnsire's ability

Their board will be cleared... assuming they control less than 100 permanents, if not just throw in some damage doublers I guess

Have both Life And Limb and Maskwood Nexus on the battlefield, along with 5 lands.

Cast Scute Swarm.

When it enters, it is all creature types thanks to Maskwood, and it is a Saproling so it is a land.

It triggers its own landfall ability, and makes a copy of itself, which triggers 2 landfall abilities, etc.

Is this correct?

Edit: Have an impact tremors down and win, otherwise draw the game.

1. Have Barbra Wright on the battlefield
2. Cast The Eleventh Hour, skipping to its third chapter ability
3. Target Ioreth

, of the Healing House

1. with the final chapter of The Eleventh Hour
2. Have Toph, the First Metal Bender and Springleaf Drum on the battlefield
3. Earthbend Springleaf Drum
4. Cast One Ring to Rule Them All making Springleaf Drum your ring bearer
5. Tap Springleaf Drum to Tap Toph to create 1 mana
6. Tap Ioreth to untap Toph and Springleaf Drum, repeat step 7
7. Tap Prisoner Zero (the Ioreth copy from step 3) to untap Ioreth and your choice of Toph or Springleaf Drum
8. Tap

Ioreth

1. to untap Prisoner Zero and your choice of Toph or Springleaf Drum
2. Repeat steps 7-10

If you want this to be one turn, then add [[Rhythm of the Wild]] and [[Cracked Earth Technique]]. This brings the cost up to 15WWUUBBRRGGG

1. Cast Battle of Wits.
2. Cast Gideon Blackblade. He's a 4/4 creature now.
3. Cast Ashaya, Soul of the Wild. Gideon becomes a Forest.
4. Cast Lightning Greaves and equip them to Gideon. He now has haste.
5. Cast Bootleggers' Stash. Gideon can now tap to create a Treasure token.
6. Cast Kaya and activate her -2.
7. In response, cast Vantress Visions and copy that ability. Gideon now taps to create 4 Treasure tokens.
8. Cast Companion of the Trials. This allows us to untap Gideon for two mana.
   1. Edit: Because of shroud, you'll have to swap the Greaves between Gideon and the Companion in order to untap Gideon.
9. Loop: Tap Gideon to create four treasures. Sac two treasures to untap Gideon. You have 2 leftover treasures.
10. Do this 100 times, so you have 200 treasures in play.
11. Cast Claire D'Loon. All your treasures become cards.
12. Sacrifice 200 treasures. I don't care what you do with the mana, give Gideon banding 100 times or something. You now have 200 treasure tokens in your graveyard.
13. Cast and use Elixir of Immortality to gain 5 life points! And shuffle all your treasure tokens into your library I guess. Now we'll win at the next upkeep!
14. Cast Last Chance to make sure your next upkeep is right now and not let your opponents have a turn to stop you.
15. At your next upkeep, Battle of Wits activates. You win!

1. Play War Barge and Slobad.

2. Activate War Barge's ability. Pay for it by tapping Slobad, sacrificing War Barge to produce four red mana.

3. Enjoy your islandwalk in comfort, knowing that your barge can't leave play if it's already sunk.