Hit the Mother Lode + Mortuary + Eternal Witness + Amulet of Vigor + Altar of Dementia

5-card combo · BRG

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop mills every library at the table infinitely, powered entirely by the Treasures Hit the Mother Lode creates to recast itself.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$46.92

Color identity

BRG

Popularity

0 decks

Format

Commander

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Hit the Mother Lode exiles Eternal Witness off the top of the library — where Mortuary just placed it — and casts it for free, generating seven Treasures that Amulet of Vigor immediately untaps. Eternal Witness returns Hit the Mother Lode to hand, the seven Treasures pay the

, and Altar of Dementia mills a target equal to Eternal Witness's power on each loop. The engine runs clean once all five pieces are in play — no external mana required after the first cast.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Eternal Witness.
When Eternal Witness dies, Mortuary triggers, putting Eternal Witness on top of your library from your graveyard.
Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability, causing target player to mill cards equal to Eternal Witness's power.
Cast Hit the Mother Lode by paying , exiling Eternal Witness from the top of your library and casting it without paying its mana cost, and creating seven tapped Treasure artifact tokens.
When Eternal Witness and the Treasures enter the battlefield, Amulet of Vigor triggers seven times and Eternal Witness triggers once.
Resolve all Amulet of Vigor triggers, untapping the Treasures.
Resolve the Eternal Witness trigger, returning Hit the Mother Lode from your graveyard to your hand.
Activate seven Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
Repeat.

Result

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mill; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite storm count

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Altar of Dementia is the only kill condition baked into the loop; swap it for Blasting Station if targeted mill is answered, since Eternal Witness dying every cycle satisfies the trigger the same way. Eternal Witness is the hardest piece to replace given the double duty it pulls — Regrowth effects won't work since the loop needs a creature on the battlefield to sacrifice — but Timeless Witness functions identically if a fourth color isn't a concern.

Hit the Mother Lode + Mortuary + Eternal Witness + Amulet of Vigor + Altar of Dementia

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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