Cloud of Faeries + Eternal Witness + Ghostly Flicker + Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

4-card combo · GWU

Verdict

Yes — Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines doubling every ETB trigger is what turns this 4-card pile into a true infinite engine.

Cards required: 4
Cheapest stack total: $41.34
Color identity: GWU
Popularity: 235 decks
Format: Commander

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Ghostly Flicker blinks Eternal Witness and Cloud of Faeries together; Elesh Norn doubles both their triggers, so Eternal Witness returns Ghostly Flicker and a free card each loop while Cloud of Faeries untaps four lands total — more than enough to recast the Flicker and net mana. The combo lives in Bant spellslinger and Witness-loop shells where Ghostly Flicker was already pulling weight before Elesh Norn entered the equation.

Recipe

How it works

Prerequisites

You control up to two lands that can tap to produce at least .

Steps

Activate up to two lands by tapping them, adding at least .
Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying , blinking Eternal Witness and Cloud of Faeries.
When Eternal Witness and Cloud of Faeries enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger twice each.
Resolve the first Eternal Witness trigger, returning Ghostly Flicker from your graveyard to your hand.
Resolve the second Eternal Witness trigger, returning any other instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Resolve the first Cloud of Faeries trigger, untapping up to two lands.
Activate up to two lands by tapping them, adding at least .
Resolve the second Cloud of Faeries trigger, untapping up to two lands.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite casts of any instants and/or sorcery cards in your hand or graveyard; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count

Variations

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Panharmonicon covers the same doubling role if Elesh Norn draws removal, though it costs one more and only doubles artifact and creature ETBs rather than blanking opponent triggers. Peregrine Drake replaces Cloud of Faeries as the land-untapper with a higher ceiling — two extra lands instead of two — if the deck wants to shave the Faeries; the loop still closes with Grapeshot, Aetherflux Reservoir, or any enter-the-battlefield payoff already on board.