Displacer Kitten + Frantic Search + Dark Ritual + Scholar of the Ages

4-card combo · UB

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop converts a single black mana into near-infinite storm count, looting, and black mana with two blue lands in play.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$63.20

Color identity

Popularity

79 decks

Format

Commander

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Displacer Kitten blinks Scholar of the Ages on every noncreature spell cast; Scholar's ETB retrieves whichever half of the Dark Ritual plus Frantic Search pair just resolved. Frantic Search untaps the lands that paid for it and loots twice per cycle, filling the graveyard with fuel while the loop keeps rebuilding itself. The engine lives in Dimir spellslinger shells — Kess, Dissident Mage or Niv-Mizzet, Parun style decks that already want Frantic Search and ritual effects.

How it works

Prerequisites

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

Steps

Cast Dark Ritual by paying .
Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Scholar of the Ages.
When Scholar of the Ages 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 Scholar of the Ages.
When Scholar of the Ages 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 self-discard triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite black mana; Near-infinite untap of lands you control; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Windfall or Echo of Eons can replace Frantic Search as the draw spell if Scholar retrieves a different target, though the mana math tightens considerably. The loop generates near-infinite storm and magecraft triggers but no direct kill — close with Tendrils of Agony, Thassa's Oracle on an empty library, or Aetherflux Reservoir once the engine is running.

Displacer Kitten + Frantic Search + Dark Ritual + Scholar of the Ages

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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