Escape Protocol + Fluctuator + Bone Miser + Eternal Witness + Scattered Groves

5-card combo · GWUB

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop generates infinite black mana, infinite draw, and infinite Eternal Witness ETBs once all pieces are on the battlefield.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$28.80

Color identity

GWUB

Popularity

41 decks

Format

Commander

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Fluctuator drops Scattered Groves's cycling cost to zero; each cycle triggers Bone Miser for two black mana, Escape Protocol to blink Eternal Witness for one colorless, and Scattered Groves's own trigger to replace the card drawn. Eternal Witness re-grabs Scattered Groves from the graveyard, and the loop starts over with a net gain of black mana every iteration. The four-color identity points toward a Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Beledros Witherbloom shell that can tutor artifacts, enchantments, and creatures efficiently.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

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

Result

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

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Witness can be swapped for Timeless Witness, which doesn't need blinking to recur the grove and removes Escape Protocol as a dependency at the cost of adding the mutate layer. Any other zero-cycle-cost land with Fluctuator in play — Irrigated Farmland, Sheltered Thicket — replaces Scattered Groves in a pinch. The loop produces infinite black mana specifically; cash it out with Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire as the table-winning closer.

Escape Protocol + Fluctuator + Bone Miser + Eternal Witness + Scattered Groves

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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