Kenrith, the Returned King + Smothering Tithe + Goldspan Dragon + Doubling Season

4-card combo · WUBRG

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop forces opponents to draw their libraries empty while paying for itself through Smothering Tithe and Goldspan Dragon.

Cards required: 4
Cheapest stack total: $216.52
Color identity: WUBRG
Popularity: 71 decks
Format: Commander

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Kenrith, the Returned King's activated ability costs 3U to make an opponent draw; Smothering Tithe creates a Treasure for that draw, Doubling Season doubles it to two, and Goldspan Dragon makes those Treasures tap for two mana each — netting 2UU back against a 3U cost, sustaining the loop indefinitely. Any opponent who can't or won't pay the Smothering Tithe tax is dead to their own deck. The combo sits naturally in 5-color Kenrith goodstuff builds that already run Doubling Season for other payoffs.

Recipe

How it works

Prerequisites

An opponent cannot pay for Smothering Tithe's trigger. Eventually the opponent will lose the game due to drawing from an empty library. You can repeat this loop with other opponents that also cannot pay for Smothering Tithe's trigger.

Steps

Activate Kenrith's fourth ability by paying , causing an opponent who cannot pay for Smothering Tithe's trigger to draw a card.
Smothering Tithe triggers, causing you to create two Treasure tokens due to Doubling Season.
Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding due to Goldspan Dragon.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents; Infinite card draw for any number of opponents

Variations

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

The loop requires all four pieces simultaneously, which makes it fragile to any single removal spell — losing Goldspan Dragon kills the mana refund entirely, and losing Doubling Season drops the Treasure output below the activation threshold. There is no clean 3-card substitute here; the combo lives and dies as a unit. Kenrith already has a built-in win condition once mana goes infinite through other lines — Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter with rocks is a tighter engine to pair alongside this one.