Escape Protocol + Fluctuator + Bone Miser + Eternal Witness + Remote Isle

5-card combo · BGU

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop cycles Remote Isle for free indefinitely, generating infinite black mana and infinite card draw.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$23.80

Color identity

BGU

Popularity

41 decks

Format

Commander

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Fluctuator reduces Remote Isle's cycling cost to zero; each cycle triggers Bone Miser for two black mana, Escape Protocol to blink Eternal Witness for one, and Remote Isle's draw trigger to replace itself. Eternal Witness's ETB returns Remote Isle from the graveyard to hand, resetting the loop. The combo lives in Sultai cycling shells — Gavi, Nest Warden misses on color, but Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait or a Nethroi, Apex of Death build that already wants Bone Miser and Eternal Witness is the natural home.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

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

Result

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

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Any land with a zero-cost cycling outlet under Fluctuator can replace Remote Isle — Barren Moor or Lonely Sandbar serve the same function if the Isle is exiled. The loop produces infinite black mana and draws but needs a payoff: Thassa's Oracle closes immediately on infinite draw, or drain the table with Sunscorched Desert if a cycling-damage package is already in the 99.

Escape Protocol + Fluctuator + Bone Miser + Eternal Witness + Remote Isle

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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