Tidespout Tyrant + Sol Ring

2-card combo · U

Verdict

Yes — Tidespout Tyrant and Sol Ring loop infinitely as long as a single castable colorless permanent sits on the battlefield.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$1.83

Color identity

Popularity

34,629 decks

Format

Commander

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Every time Sol Ring resolves, Tidespout Tyrant bounces the colorless permanent back to hand; recasting that permanent bounces Sol Ring back to hand; Sol Ring then taps for two colorless before being recast, netting mana on each iteration. The whole engine lives in mono-blue artifact and Tidespout Tyrant shells — Hullbreaker Horror does the same work in a pinch, but Tidespout Tyrant converts every spell into a bounce trigger, making this loop implicit once the Tyrant hits the board.

How it works

Prerequisites

You control a nontoken permanent that can be cast using .

Steps

Cast Sol Ring by paying its mana cost.
Tidespout Tyrant triggers, returning a nontoken permanent that can be cast using from the battlefield to your hand.
Activate Sol Ring by tapping it, adding .
Cast the nontoken permanent returned in step 2 by paying its mana cost.
Tidespout Tyrant triggers, returning Sol Ring from the battlefield to your hand.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite storm count

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Any one-mana colorless artifact — Mana Crypt, Mox Amber, even Chrome Mox — replaces Sol Ring as the second piece; the loop only requires a cost differential where the two permanents alternate bouncing each other for net positive mana. Pair the infinite storm count with Aetherflux Reservoir or the infinite colorless with Walking Ballista for the kill, as the loop generates mana but nothing in these two cards closes the game on its own.

Tidespout Tyrant + Sol Ring

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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