Escape Protocol + Fluctuator + Bone Miser + Eternal Witness + Sheltered Thicket

5-card combo · UBRG

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop produces infinite black mana, infinite card draw, and infinite ETB triggers as long as all pieces stay on the battlefield.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$27.38

Color identity

UBRG

Popularity

27 decks

Format

Commander

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Fluctuator reduces Sheltered Thicket's cycling cost to zero, letting Bone Miser generate two black mana on each cycle while Escape Protocol pays one of it to blink Eternal Witness, who returns Sheltered Thicket to hand and restarts the loop. The five-piece requirement is the real cost here — Escape Protocol, Fluctuator, Bone Miser, Eternal Witness, and Sheltered Thicket all need to be in place simultaneously, making this an assembling-the-pieces problem more than a power problem.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

Activate Sheltered Thicket's cycling ability by paying and discarding it.
Bone Miser, Sheltered Thicket, and Escape Protocol trigger.
Resolve the Bone Miser trigger, adding .
Resolve the Sheltered Thicket trigger, drawing a card.
Resolve the Escape Protocol trigger, causing you to pay to blink Eternal Witness.
Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, returning Sheltered Thicket from your graveyard to your hand.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite black mana; Infinite card draw; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Any cycling land that produces at least one mana through Bone Miser's discard trigger can replace Sheltered Thicket in a pinch, but Sheltered Thicket is the cleanest two-color option that zeroes out with Fluctuator. The loop generates infinite black mana but not the colors needed for most closers outside black — pair it with Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire to cash out, or lean on the infinite ETB triggers with a Gray Merchant of Asphodel already on board.

Escape Protocol + Fluctuator + Bone Miser + Eternal Witness + Sheltered Thicket

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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