Kenrith, the Returned King + Smothering Tithe + Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Primal Vigor

4-card combo · WUBRG

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop forces opponents to draw their libraries empty by funding itself entirely on Smothering Tithe triggers.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$21.74

Color identity

WUBRG

Popularity

11 decks

Format

Commander

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Kenrith, the Returned King's 3U activation makes an opponent draw a card; if that opponent can't pay the Smothering Tithe tax, Jolene, the Plunder Queen doubles the resulting Treasure into two, and Primal Vigor doubles those again into four, netting exactly 3U to repeat the loop. The table watches one player get milled out per loop cycle, with the rest to follow. This lives in 5-color good-stuff piles running Kenrith as commander — he assembles the kill condition and the engine piece in the command zone simultaneously.

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 four Treasure tokens due to Jolene and Primal Vigor.
Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
Repeat.

Result

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

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Replace Primal Vigor with Doubling Season if token-doubling redundancy matters — both achieve the same four-Treasure result from one Tithe trigger with Jolene on board. The combo hard-fails if any target can pay the Tithe tax, so counterspell backup or a way to drain opponents' mana first — Draining Whelk, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV slowing them down — turns a conditional win into a reliable one.

Kenrith, the Returned King + Smothering Tithe + Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Primal Vigor

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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