Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain + Words of Wind + Lyse Hext + Sol Ring

4-card combo · URW

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop uses Words of Wind to bounce every permanent opponents control while growing Lyse Hext arbitrarily large.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$6.42

Color identity

URW

Popularity

1 decks

Format

Commander

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Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain draws a card on every historic spell, which feeds Words of Wind's replacement effect to bounce a permanent instead; Lyse Hext makes each artifact in hand castable for zero, turning Sol Ring and a second artifact into a self-sustaining loop. Each full cycle returns one opponent permanent per player at the table, strips opponents of their board over repeated iterations, and pumps Lyse with two +1/+1 triggers per loop. This lives in Jeskai artifact storm shells — Jhoira as the commander is the obvious home, where the density of zero-cost artifacts like Ornithopter and Memnite ensures the loop is always live.

How it works

Prerequisites

You have an artifact card in hand that can be cast for due to Lyse Hext. You can use a historic creature to get infinite ETB and LTB triggers. If you do not use a creature, this combo will not produce those results.

Steps

Activate Sol Ring by tapping it, adding .
Activate Words of Wind by paying .
Cast an artifact by paying .
Jhoira and Lyse's prowess ability trigger.
Resolve the Jhoira trigger, causing each player to return a permanent they control from the battlefield to their hand due to Words of Wind, with you returning Sol Ring to your hand.
Resolve the Lyse trigger, giving it +1/+1 until end of turn.
Activate Words of Wind by paying .
Cast Sol Ring by paying .
Jhoira and Lyse's prowess ability trigger.
Resolve the Jhoira trigger,, causing each player to return a permanent they control from the battlefield to their hand due to Words of Wind, with you returning the artifact cast in step 3 to your hand.
Resolve the Lyse trigger, giving it +1/+1 until end of turn.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Return all permanents opponents control to their owner's hand; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Mass Land Denial

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

A historic creature like Ornithopter doubles as the bounced artifact for the ETB and LTB result — without one, the loop still produces infinite storm count and mass bounce but skips those triggers. Dramatic Reversal imprinted on Isochron Scepter is the backup infinite-mana line if Sol Ring gets bounced out of reach; Words of Wind is the fragile piece here at 3 mana to set up, so redundancy in the draw engine via Thran Dynamo or other mana rocks that survive the loop is worth the deckbuilding cost.

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain + Words of Wind + Lyse Hext + Sol Ring

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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