Turnabout + Ghostly Flicker + Eternal Witness + Salvager of Secrets

4-card combo · GU

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop generates infinite mana and infinite ETB triggers in any Simic shell that can assemble the pieces.

Cards required: 4
Cheapest stack total: $11.08
Color identity: GU
Popularity: 10 decks
Format: Commander

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Turnabout untaps all lands after paying its own cost, leaving mana floating; Ghostly Flicker blinks Salvager of Secrets and Eternal Witness, whose enter-the-battlefield triggers return both spells to hand for the next iteration. The loop runs at sorcery speed, so it wins through storm, magecraft, or any landfall payoff already on the battlefield — Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait and Riku of Two Reflections are natural homes.

Recipe

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 Salvager of Secrets and Eternal Witness.
When Salvager of Secrets 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

Variations

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Peregrine Drake replaces Turnabout as a more compact mana source if the spell slot is under pressure, though it requires Ghostly Flicker to hit the Drake and one of the recursion creatures simultaneously. Drop Salvager of Secrets for Archaeomancer in any list that doesn't need the second creature slot — Archaeomancer recovers Ghostly Flicker just as well, freeing the Flicker target for any other permanent as a closer once mana is infinite.