Valley Floodcaller + Sensei's Divining Top + Birds of Paradise + Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass

4-card combo · GU

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop draws the entire library while stacking near-infinite power and toughness on Birds, Otters, Frogs, and Rats you control.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$47.00

Color identity

Popularity

24 decks

Format

Commander

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Valley Floodcaller turns every Sensei's Divining Top activation into an untap trigger for Birds of Paradise, which refunds the 1 mana to recast Top from the library — each cycle draws a card and pumps the relevant creature types. Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass is the fourth piece that completes the redundancy or payoff layer the loop needs to close. The combo sits naturally in Simic creature-type synergy builds that already want Top for library manipulation.

How it works

Prerequisites

Birds of Paradise does not have summoning sickness.

Steps

Activate Birds of Paradise by tapping it, adding .
Activate Sensei's Divining Top's second ability by tapping it, causing you to draw a card and put Sensei's Divining Top from the battlefield onto the top of your library.
Cast Sensei's Divining Top from the top of your library by paying .
Valley Floodcaller triggers, giving Birds, Otters, Frogs and Rats you control +1/+1 until end of turn and untapping them.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite power and toughness for certain creatures until end of turn; Near-infinite untap of some creatures you control

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Any other creature that taps for at least 1 mana and belongs to the Birds, Otters, Frogs, or Rats creature types can replace Birds of Paradise if it produces colored mana — the untap trigger is type-locked. The loop draws the whole library but doesn't win without a payoff; Blue Sun's Zenith shuffled back or a Laboratory Maniac effect converts the infinite draw into a kill.

Valley Floodcaller + Sensei's Divining Top + Birds of Paradise + Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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