Kenrith, the Returned King + Eternal Witness + Capture of Jingzhou + Ashnod's Altar

4-card combo · WUBRG

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop chains Capture of Jingzhou infinitely through Eternal Witness recursion to lock the table out of ever taking another turn.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$208.17

Color identity

WUBRG

Popularity

5 decks

Format

Commander

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Ashnod's Altar sacrifices Eternal Witness for two colorless, which partially offsets the 4B activation on Kenrith, the Returned King that returns her to the battlefield; she re-enters and retrieves Capture of Jingzhou, which costs 3UU to recast and grants an extra turn. The loop asks for five mana per iteration beyond what Ashnod's Altar returns, so the deck needs a meaningful mana base or rocks in play — this is not a zero-cost loop. Kenrith, the Returned King as commander makes the black reanimation ability always accessible, which is the structural reason this line exists in 5-color goodstuff shells.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Eternal Witness, adding .
Activate Kenrith's last ability by paying , returning Eternal Witness from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, returning Capture of Jingzhou from your graveyard to your hand.
Cast Capture of Jingzhou by paying , causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite turns; Lock

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Temporal Manipulation and Time Warp are cheaper at 3UU rather than 5 mana, reducing the per-loop cost by two and making the engine considerably faster — Capture of Jingzhou is the budget stand-in, not the optimal piece. Time Walk cuts the cost further to 1U if available. Any aristocrats payoff like Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat converts the sacrifice loop into a parallel kill condition alongside the turn lock.

Kenrith, the Returned King + Eternal Witness + Capture of Jingzhou + Ashnod's Altar

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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