Elite Arcanist + Dark Ritual + Mycosynth Lattice + Pemmin's Aura

4-card combo · UB

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop generates infinite black mana and infinite storm count in any Dimir shell that can assemble and protect all four pieces.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$16.46

Color identity

Popularity

1 decks

Format

Commander

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Elite Arcanist imprints Dark Ritual and fires it for free with a 1-mana tap; Pemmin's Aura untaps the Arcanist for another 1 mana, and the net gain of 1 black mana per cycle repeats indefinitely. Mycosynth Lattice is the critical enabler — it makes Elite Arcanist's colorless imprint activation payable with any mana, which is what lets the black from Dark Ritual feed back into Pemmin's Aura's blue untap cost. The table sees a creature, an enchantment, and an artifact before anything happens, so disrupting any one piece before activation collapses the whole line.

How it works

Prerequisites

Pemmin's Aura attached to Elite Arcanist. Elite Arcanist does not have summoning sickness.

Steps

Activate Elite Arcanist's ability by paying and tapping it, casting a copy of Dark Ritual without paying its mana cost.
Resolve Dark Ritual, adding .
Activate Pemmin's Aura's first ability by paying , untapping Elite Arcanist.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite colored mana; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Freed from the Real is the direct swap for Pemmin's Aura — it untaps for 1 blue and does the same job at one less mana per copy. Without Mycosynth Lattice, the loop does not function, so redundancy there matters more than finding a Ritual substitute. Close with Thassa's Oracle, Grapeshot, or any magecraft payoff like Archmage Emeritus to convert the infinite storm count into a win.

Elite Arcanist + Dark Ritual + Mycosynth Lattice + Pemmin's Aura

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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