Turnabout + Ghostly Flicker + Eternal Witness + Archaeomancer

4-card combo · GU

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop generates infinite ETB triggers, infinite landfall, and infinite mana in any blue-green shell that runs creature-based recursion.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$2.94

Color identity

Popularity

116 decks

Format

Commander

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Ghostly Flicker blinks Archaeomancer and Eternal Witness simultaneously; Archaeomancer returns Ghostly Flicker, Eternal Witness returns Turnabout, and Turnabout untaps every land to pay for the next iteration. The floor is 4 blue and 4 colorless across your lands — at 5 blue and 5 colorless the loop nets mana and you can redirect Ghostly Flicker's second target to blink anything else on the board. Riku of Two Reflections, Chulane, Teller of Tales, and Zegana, Utopian Speaker all run this as their primary engine.

How it works

Prerequisites

Lands you control can tap to produce at least . If lands you control can tap to produce at least , this combo nets infinite mana. You can then stop casting Turnabout and blink one other permanent using Ghostly Flicker. You may also tap artifacts and/or creatures instead for mana if desired.

Steps

Activate any number of lands you control by tapping them, adding at least .
Cast Turnabout by paying , untapping all lands you control.
Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying , blinking Archaeomancer and Eternal Witness.
When Archaeomancer and Eternal Witness enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Turnabout and Ghostly Flicker from your graveyard to your hand.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana permanents you control can produce

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Peregrine Drake replaces Turnabout as the untap piece and asks nothing of your land count beyond producing the flicker mana — the safer choice in slower mana bases. Naru Meha, Master Wizard can sub for Archaeomancer in a pinch, but requires flash timing and a different sequencing. Add Walking Ballista or Thassa's Oracle as the closer once mana goes infinite; the loop produces no damage or mill on its own.

Turnabout + Ghostly Flicker + Eternal Witness + Archaeomancer

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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