Echocasting Symposium + Eternal Witness + Temporal Manipulation
3-card combo · GU
Verdict
Yes — this 3-card loop generates infinite turns by recycling Temporal Manipulation through Echocasting Symposium's paradigm trigger every extra turn.
- Cards required
- 3
- Cheapest stack total
- $23.95
- Color identity
- GU
- Popularity
- 17 decks
- Format
- Commander
Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability fires at the beginning of each precombat main phase on an extra turn, casting a copy of the imprinted spell from exile — here, Temporal Manipulation — and the resulting Eternal Witness token immediately returns Temporal Manipulation from the graveyard to hand. Cast it again, take another extra turn, repeat indefinitely. The combo asks for five mana to start the chain and two green-blue staple creatures plus a Time Walk variant, making it a natural fit for Simic spellslinger or extra-turns commanders like Melek, Izzet Paragon adjacent builds that splash green.
Recipe
How it works
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Prerequisites
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Steps
- Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- Move to your next turn. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, Echocasting Symposium's paradigm ability triggers, causing you to cast a copy of it from exile.
- Resolve the copy, creating a token copy of Eternal Witness
- When the Eternal Witness token enters, it triggers, returning Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard to your hand.
- Repeat.
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Result
Infinite turns; Lock
Variations
Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines
Walk the Aeons or Nexus of Fate can replace Temporal Manipulation as the extra-turn spell; Nexus shuffles back into the library rather than hitting the graveyard, which breaks the Eternal Witness recursion, so stick with Walk the Aeons or Temporal Manipulation. Crystal Shard or Erratic Portal can sub in to bounce Eternal Witness to recast rather than relying on a fresh token, but that adds a fourth piece and slows the loop considerably.
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Verified on Commander Spellbook · Combo ID echocasting-symposium-eternal-witness-temporal-manipulation
Updated . Data from Commander Spellbook, Scryfall, and EDHREC.