Displace + Palinchron + Eternal Witness

3-card combo · GU

Verdict

Yes — this 3-card loop generates infinite mana and infinite ETB triggers in any Simic shell that can land seven blue-producing lands.

Cards required: 3
Cheapest stack total: $6.21
Color identity: GU
Popularity: 386 decks
Format: Commander

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Displace blinks both Eternal Witness and Palinchron simultaneously; Palinchron untaps up to seven lands, refunding the 2U cost, while Eternal Witness returns Displace to hand for the next iteration. The loop fires landfall, ETB, and LTB triggers on every cycle, making it a natural fit for Kruphix, God of Horizons or Riku of Two Reflections builds that already want high land counts and recursive value.

Recipe

How it works

Prerequisites

You control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least . If you control seven lands that can tap to produce at least , this combo nets infinite mana, and you may blink any other permanent besides Palinchron.

Steps

Activate up to seven lands by tapping them, adding at least .
Cast Displace by paying , blinking Eternal Witness and Palinchron
When Eternal Witness and Palinchron enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger.
Resolve the Eternal Witness trigger, returning Displace from your graveyard to your hand.
Resolve the Palinchron trigger, untapping up to seven lands.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control

Variations

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Ghostly Flicker is the direct Displace replacement if a single blink spell gets exiled — same mana cost, same two-target clause. Peregrine Drake is the budget Palinchron substitute if seven untaps feels redundant; it untaps five lands instead, which still nets mana at the breakeven threshold. Either way, pair the loop with Blue Sun's Zenith or Thassa's Oracle as the game-ending sink — the engine goes infinite, the loop itself does not win.