Displacer Kitten + Frantic Search + Dark Ritual + Eternal Witness

4-card combo · BGU

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop generates infinite black mana, infinite storm count, and loops your graveyard as long as Displacer Kitten sees spells resolving.

Cards required: 4
Cheapest stack total: $8.08
Color identity: BGU
Popularity: 281 decks
Format: Commander

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The engine runs on Displacer Kitten blinking Eternal Witness every time Dark Ritual or Frantic Search resolves, which lets Eternal Witness rebuy the next piece from the graveyard on each trigger. Dark Ritual pays for itself and produces net black mana per loop; Frantic Search untaps lands and loots twice each cycle, feeding more resources into the chain. The combo lives in Sultai spellslinger shells — Kess, Dissident Mage and Esika, God of the Tree lists that already run these pieces independently can assemble it mid-game off a single tutor.

Recipe

How it works

Prerequisites

You control up to three lands that can tap to produce at least . You have an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard that has legal targets and that can be cast using .

Steps

Cast Dark Ritual by paying .
Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Eternal Witness.
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning the other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Resolve Dark Ritual, adding .
Cast the other instant or sorcery by paying its mana cost.
Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Eternal Witness.
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Dark Ritual from your graveyard to your hand.
Resolve the instant or sorcery.
Repeat.
Cast Dark Ritual by paying .
Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Eternal Witness.
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Frantic Search from your graveyard to your hand.
Resolve Dark Ritual, adding .
Activate up to three lands by tapping them, adding at least .
Cast Frantic Search by paying .
Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Eternal Witness.
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Dark Ritual from your graveyard to your hand.
Resolve Frantic Search, causing you to loot twice and untap up to three lands.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite storm count; Infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite black mana; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite black mana; Near-infinite untap of lands you control; Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard

Variations

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

The prerequisite instant or sorcery costing exactly 2B matters — if that slot is flexible, Dark Petition and Diabolic Tutor both fit the cost and fetch missing pieces, keeping the loop self-referential. Displacer Kitten is the single most fragile piece; it dies to any creature removal at instant speed and collapses the whole chain, so Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves are non-negotiable protection in the shell. For the kill, use the infinite storm count with Grapeshot or dump the looted cards into a Thassa's Oracle win once the library is thin enough.