Displacer Kitten + Frantic Search + Dark Ritual + Salvager of Secrets

4-card combo · UB

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop generates near-infinite storm count, looting, and black mana in any Dimir shell that can assemble the pieces.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$5.27

Color identity

Popularity

12 decks

Format

Commander

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Displacer Kitten blinks Salvager of Secrets every time Dark Ritual or Frantic Search resolves, and Salvager's ETB returns whichever spell just resolved to hand. Dark Ritual keeps the black mana flowing while Frantic Search pays for itself by untapping the lands that funded it, making the loop self-sustaining with just three blue-producing lands in play. The table sees a Kitten on the battlefield and two spells cycling back and forth — by the time interaction is live, the storm count is already out of hand.

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 Salvager of Secrets.
When Salvager of Secrets 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 Salvager of Secrets.
When Salvager of Secrets 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

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Archaeomancer replaces Salvager of Secrets if the four-mana body is unavailable, though it only recurs instants and sorceries and the function is identical here. The loop generates near-infinite storm but no built-in kill — Grapeshot closes it cleanly, and Thassa's Oracle or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries converts the draw triggers into a win if the library empties during the looting.

Displacer Kitten + Frantic Search + Dark Ritual + Salvager of Secrets

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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