Monk Gyatso + Ugin, the Ineffable + Lightning Greaves

3-card combo · W

Verdict

Yes — this 3-card loop loops a colorless creature infinitely for infinite ETB, LTB, and storm count in white.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$9.66

Color identity

Popularity

283 decks

Format

Commander

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Ugin, the Ineffable reduces colorless creature costs to zero; Lightning Greaves's free equip targets a colorless creature, which triggers Monk Gyatso to exile it, making the equip fizzle for lack of a target. Casting the exiled creature for zero resets the loop. White artifact-creature shells — Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, Heliod, Sun-Crowned, or any Aura Shards build — get a compact engine that requires just one nontoken colorless creature as the bounce target.

How it works

Prerequisites

You control a nontoken colorless creature.

Steps

Activate Lightning Greaves's equip ability by paying , targeting the colorless creature.
Monk Gyatso triggers, airbending the creature.
Lightning Greaves's ability fizzles due to no longer having a legal target.
Cast the creature from exile by paying due to Ugin.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

The loop doesn't kill on its own — it needs a payoff for the infinite ETBs or LTBs already on the battlefield. Altar of the Brood mills every opponent on the spot; Disciple of the Vault and Reckless Fireweaver are out of white, so the cleanest in-color finisher is Corpse Knight if splashing black or a drain piece the commander provides. The bottleneck is Monk Gyatso's current scarcity in competitive decklists — this is a niche build-around, not a plug-in module.

Monk Gyatso + Ugin, the Ineffable + Lightning Greaves

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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