Monk Gyatso + Lightning Greaves + Semblance Anvil

3-card combo · W

Verdict

Yes — this 3-card loop generates infinite ETB, LTB, and storm count in mono-white by exploiting a targeting fizzle on Lightning Greaves.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$11.21

Color identity

Popularity

1,810 decks

Format

Commander

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Equipping Lightning Greaves to any nontoken creature you control triggers Monk Gyatso's airbending ability, exiling that creature; the equip ability then fizzles because its target is gone. Semblance Anvil reduces the exiled creature's cost to zero, letting it be recast immediately and resetting the loop. The combo fits naturally in Monk Gyatso as commander, where the deck is already incentivized to run both equip enablers and cost-reduction artifacts.

How it works

Prerequisites

You control another nontoken creature. There is a creature card exiled with Semblance Anvil.

Steps

Activate Lightning Greaves's equip ability by paying , targeting another nontoken creature you control.
Monk Gyatso triggers, airbending the targeted creature.
The Lightning Greaves ability fizzles due to no longer having a legal target.
Cast the creature from exile by paying due to Semblance Anvil.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

The creature exiled under Semblance Anvil must share a type with the creature being bounced and recast — build around a redundant creature type like Humans or Birds to keep the cost reduction live. Altar of the Brood or Impact Tremors converts the infinite ETBs into a win condition; without a payoff in play, the loop produces storm count and triggers but no immediate kill.

Monk Gyatso + Lightning Greaves + Semblance Anvil

How it works

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