Never Ever Play These Magic: The Gathering Card Combos! 

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Thanks for the heads up about these dangerous combos. I bought several of them, to safely put into binders and never run in my decks.

Gotta love the commitment to the bit. I could never pull off a 20-minute implied wink

A commander that says “if the game would end in a draw, you win instead” could be quite hilarious.

As a physicist and failed mathematician who works as a software developer, I LOVE these kind of situations. I used to spend hours trying to build decks like these just for the sake of it

Guys, I think he’s trying to tell us that he wants us to play these combos

I've been looking for a way out of my playgroup without having to quit, these combos are a surefire way to not get invited back again! Thanks Prof!

i love how you can turn most of those combos into actual win cons with a single addition. "oh i have infinite ETBs. guess i run some drain effect on top"

We should find a way to fit all of these heinous combos into a single commander deck, for containment reasons of course.

Adults don’t play magic, silly professor. Magic is for wizards!

Wait. This is actually The Professor teaching these combos? I was expecting an end-of-video reveal that it was really The Instructor from Tolarian State University.

That first combo reminds me of "Judge Call Turbo" a now errata'd yugioh deck that stopped your opponent from playing a single card because it was illegal to start an infinite loop and in certain circumstances the problem cards wouldn't auto destroy themselves. Still bitter they kept "missing the timing" and non-targeting cards that require choosing a "target".

This makes me want to build a "draw" deck. It would be hilarious to say to the table that this deck wants to "draw" and confuse them with the double meaning.

5:01 Prof uses the word "instructing" here, revealing that The Instructor forced him to do this video! DON'T BE FOOLED! THIS VIDEO IS PURE EVIL!

"I'm trusting that everybody here is an adult that can be entrusted with -" Imma stop you right there, Prof, I gotta laugh XD XD XD

I can only imagine the amount of salt a player would exude after that lich's mirror combo...

I love how in order to get the Lich's Mirror combo to work, you have to deal your opponent lethal. Because you're always going to take a draw over a win. Nice.

i already saw the lich mirror one i gotta say, it's awful, but an infinite loop of state based actions is really fascinating to be honest

Thanks Prof! I definitely won’t put the first two combos and all others that apply in a mono white “if I can’t get good cards then you can’t play” deck!

It's worth noting that a lot of those non interactive infinite creature loops become instant win conditions with purphoros, which means a lot of them can easily be ran in commander decks, especially the creature combos with green or any with black.

When urza asked the viashino what it did, they answered, "It hums."

Opalescence, DotD and Purpharos would actually be a fun combo. Thanks prof 😂

If I manage to "crash" a tabletop game, I see that as a victory.

"Never ever play these magic: the gathering card combos".....okay...what cards am I about to buy today... :D

“Life and Limb” and “Sporemound,” then play any land. Infinite loop of saprolings entering the battlefield. Bonus: Both are in green so if you don’t want to stall and just create thousands and thousands of saprolings instead, have an enchantment destroying instant in your hand and enough mana to cast it before playing the land.

When I first got into Commander, I misread Ajani's Chosen as a may ability and was running Grand Arbiter Augustin IV as an enchantment stall deck. I accidently did the infinite loop thinking I could stop it and kill everyone with near infinite cats.

many of these combos are one piece short of an otk. for example, the marauding raptor/solemnity/persist combo just needs either an etb or death trigger. if the deck also has black, you could use falkenrath noble or blood artist. for day of the dragon, splash in red and run some warstorm surge.

Hoopsie, I run the "Ajanis Chosen" and "Enchanted Evening" Combo in my Hanna Enchantment Commander Deck, but I never got them both in play, so until now I did not noticed that this Combo crushes the Game, I just thought i make infinite Tokens and just win, thanks professor for this precious lesson ^^

Great video! One note is that the enchanted evening combo also works with Archon of Sun's Grace. I run it in my Estrid enchantress deck, but I also have included High Market so that I can sacrifice the archon to stop the loop. Then I’m left with infinite 2/2 flyers.

Question: Prof SAYS I should not play these combos and YET here I am putting them into my Card Kingdom cart using the affiliate code TCC at checkout- how did this happen? 🤔

The Enchanted Evening combo also works with Archon of Sun’s Grace in the same fashion. Running both that and Ajani in a commander deck would also be something to “not play”.

Just a note that in the Enchanted Evening combo, instead of Adjani's Chosen, you can also use Archon of Sun's Grace. I mean NO! You should NEVER use that as well!! (also, in the March of the Machines combo, apart from all the other reasons you can't sac the treasures, they also have summoning sickness. ;) )

My favorite combo ever is Caged Sun and something to turn it into a land, for example March of the Machines + Arcane Adaptation (on elf) + Life and Limb. Now the Sun on green can itself tap for green - which as it's a land, triggers it, adding another Mana - which, as it's a land, triggers it to add another Mana - which, as it's a land... This is especially awesome as this happens on Mana ability speed, meaning nobody can intervene, even if they could. Not even yourself.

Thanks, Prof. I was thinking in making a 5 color "Jodraw" commander! No wincons, just drawcons!

Prof you know exactly what you’ve done. Thank you for the spicy combos.

I cannot wait to try these combos, thanks Professor!!

I really liked the use of the Commander (2016?) symbol as a way to show Shroud. Great thinking!

Love this vid. Feels like a good lecture from my favorite teacher

I’d love to make a hostage deck where you play combos like these to threaten the table into a draw while you work on your own win so you either win or draw but don’t lose

Much love and respect to you and your channel. I hope all is well for you and your family and friends.

Just from the way the prof presented the advertisement for keeps really goes to show you how wholesome and awesome the prof is. You can really tell how genuine he really is and that's something I can really appreciate as it's a breath of fresh air. Please don't ever change prof. The world needs more people just like you. 👍

I thought sporemound + life and limb was well known, I once ended the game with that because it was starting to be a long game. A friend of mine played aether flash and polyraptor and I had to explain it to him a few times how he just drew the game.

No one wins and everybody draws? I thought EDH players liked group hug decks

I'm pretty sure this is my new favorite video on RU-vid. I will now only play decks featuring these combos. Thanks!!

Just picked up my new commander deck, thanks Professor!

When I was building my first deck, I accidentally discovered an infinite which ends the game unless interrupted. If you play Sporemound (has a landfall trigger that creates a 1/1 saproling) combined with Life and Limb (all your forests and saprolings become forests and saprolings in addition to their other type), then as soon as you play a forest, Sporemound will trigger and create a saproling. But because of Life and Limb, this saproling is also a forest, and will trigger Sporemound again. This cycle continues indefinitely and the game ends in a draw, unless the player or an opponent is able to destroy either Sporemound or Life and Limb at instant speed.

This concept is something one of my friends started doing. "If I can't win the game, nobody will!" She said that after nuking everybody for over 60 damage...herself included

I like how most of these are Blood Artist or Impact Tremors combos, but without any win condition in play.

Oh me oh my! Thanks for this! I used to run Teferi & Knowledge Pool/Possibility Storm. Also Stasis &Wilderness Reclamation. My personal favorite lately has been Opalescence & Out of Time. So I'm definitely going to run Day of the Dragons. I've also been running Enchanted Evening with Cleansing Meditation/Calming Verse so Ajanis Chisen makes sense to add

Instructions unclear, immediately cramming some of these combos into my commander decks.

I already have lich’s mirror in my Blim deck with “you can’t gain life” effects specifically to put one person into a death loop. Why? Because it’s funny and Blim is a comedic genius.

The first on is something I discovered in my binder years ago. Just returning to the game for a bit of commander it's good to know that's still a staple.

Your ads are the only ones I listen to. They're so classy!

"I'm trusting that everyone here is an adult." See, that was your first mistake.

The feeling when you already run Polyraptor and Marauding Raptor in your dino deck. Luckly I know not to use them together but Gishath sometimes takes that out of my control.

8:55 this transition makes me laugh so much i keep coming back to giggle at it

I really appreciated the AD read. Best Keeps AD I've seen on YT.

And no matter what you do, don't combine the Ajani/Enchanted Evening combo with altar of dementia to mill out all your opponents. That would be terrible!

prof: "I am trusting that everyone here is an adult" me: *laughs in 14*

I suspected Polyraptor would make an appearance. Polyraptor and Forerunner of the Empire are in my Sun Empire deck, but since I have the choice of triggering the effect I'm playing them and would encourage others to do the same as this combo is really going to make you a lot of friends!

Thanks for the update, a few of those can be turned into actual infinites though by adding one card 🤔 (feels like that may've been hinted at though 🤣)

i've done the opal/day of dragons combo, but I also had purphoros, so all the etb's just bbq'd my opponents

That lich’s mirror one is awesome. Lose forever but you can’t lose. I’d wager you should never run grave Titan because the nitpicking nerds told me not to. I run it but that’s just because it’s awesome.

I am actually running pitiless plunderer and march of the machines in my Eloise deck! The plunderer isn't part of the intended combo- but it does work the exact same way with Eloise! The idea is to have something like blood artist or disciple of the vault out when the infinite goes off! :)

I use Enchanted Evening with Aura Thief in Commander with a sac outlet to say everything you own is now mine! I use it in my Tuvasa Bantress deck!

If you decide to play these combos, just remember to bring participation ribbons for everyone at the table.

The Pitiless plunderer combo actually would end the game if you had a Zulaport or something like that out so I don't think its thaaaaaaaaat bad :)

Most of these I don't use/don't intend to use ever, but I love that the Raptors were on here. I actually use Marauding and Polyraptor with Warstorm Surge and Impact Tremors, lol.

Oh, wow, I forgot about the Marauding Raptor + Polyraptor combo. That one actually made it onto MTGA. I can't remember how the client reacted to it. I think it just stalled until someone conceded, which is kind of stupid. That may have been when people first got concerned about adding an "offer a draw" function.

"I'm trusting that everybody here is an adult that can be entrusted with [...]" I think that the Professor is overestimating the common sense and social skills of the average Magic player.

Ew, combos. The only “combo” I need is *big power creature turns sideways.*

Thanks for all the cool combos. I made a list to order from card kingdom

A couple days ago I bought a celestial convergence, hex parasite, repay in kind and phyrexian unlife for a future Krav and Regna life gain/manipulation deck. Bought them as win cons and didn’t even think of such a combo.

Funnily enough there are similar combos's in Yugioh, however they are straight up illegal to do . In yugioh if you have a card in play, you and your opponent are not allowed to make any moves that would cause an infinite loop with no resolution. So using one of Prof's examples, under Yugioh rules if you had something like Stuffy doll in play you would straight up not be allowed to cast Pariah on it. Former Yugituber Galactic god has several videos explaining this if anyone's curious :ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6OmTr6J_FWk.html

Something to note about the combos that function on amassing an unending army of token creatures (such as Ajani's Chosen and Enchanted Evening) is that Magic Online (and Magic Arena, if a similar combo is found there) employ a token limit of 250, where after that point new tokens will simply not be created. You may need to evade some loop detection algorithms by taking additional game actions every now and again like casting instants or activating abilities, but if you manage to make it to 250 you will be left with a terrifying army. This is a case of technical limitations causing a slight gap between the "magic online" rules and the "tabletop magic" rules, but also consider that the inability to demonstrate a loop leaves some perfectly viable combo decks (in paper) a dangerous liability to your clock on mtgo, so this is just the opposite of that effect.

As an alternate to the pitiless plunderer in the last combo you can use the new Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth. She would also work as a commander since she is already blue black.

This should be titled combos that ruin commander games, sucking all fun from the game. Please don’t do this anyone, you will not feel good about yourself after

In Grimgrin, Corpse Born (commander), I run Liliana, Untouched by Death, Rooftop Storm, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel (Gary and additional etb zombies that will mill or kill). It's a lot to get out, though, so it's often a commander damage affair despite having some tutors to aid in assembly. Best to note the "redundant" effects like the Prof says. Like this one could use redundant free sac outlets (but needs rooftop in play and the plainswalker's -3 ability).

Wow last week I wrote a comment mentioning the poly raptor combo. It's really cool how it was showcased here. I learned of that combo when I accidentally played it, not knowing it would break the game.

Cool new combos and stuff to play, nice.

I believe that I was the one to suggest the Lich's Mirror combo in a previous video's comments (I believe the one where the Professor took an internship at Tolarian State University) along with my favorite mono-green game glitch Life and Limb and Sporemound!

I had no Idea about the Ajani's chosen and Enchanted Evening, i may need to adjust my Estrid deck now. That last one however, seems like if there are any aristocrat pieces it might just be a finisher. Def a stall if nothing else is out though, no doubts there.

I am playing pariah shield and stuffy doll in my Jared deck. I had no idea that they can interact like this. Thx proffesor 😀.

thank you for the PSA, Prof. and this is why you should run removal in commander, especially enchantment removal (if possible)

Can't wait to see you pull one of these off in one of the future episodes of IHYD.

I do run Archon of suns grace + Enchanted evening. However I always have a Sacrifice outlet to remove archon to stop the loop.

I love your content. You're absolutely amazing and wickedly talented.

Don't forget with plunder and March of the machines if you add Mycosynth Lattice the you add lands into that mix in which case it prevents your opponents from using any cards to counter you

"End the game in a tie" so the best n trolliest combos :P I actually went on a spree making decks around several combos like this. Just for funzys

Archon of Sun's Grace also works with the enchanted evening combo, but instead of making cats, it makes pegasus tokens.

One I've actually played on myself, Life and Limb plus Sporemound. Since life and limb makes sporting into lands, when one enters, it triggers the landfall on Sporemound, which makes a sporting, which is a forest, which triggers landfall.... and EDH crashes

Ah, I didn't actually know a few of those. Thanks for the tips!

Gotta add the repay in kind, and platinum angel combo to my Selenia deck, seems like an easy fit

I feel that the Pariah and Stuffy doll combo is a must in my Jared Carthalion monarch deck.

One I used to run before I discovered it was one of these was "Life and Limb" in combination with "Spore mound". Play a land or make a saproling? Life and limb makes all forest Saprolings and all Saprolings Forests, infinitely triggering Spore Mound's landfall ability of "make a saproling".

Thanks, Prof, you gave an excellent idea of a new counters deck NOT to build. i will have to think hard on which commander to NOT use for it if I want 4 colors without blue.

Solemnity can be exchanged for any card that has the creature enter with a +1/+1 counter, such as *Renata, Called to the Hunt*, or *Grumgully, the Generous*, as the +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters will cancel out and remove each other, meaning the creature dies without any counters, triggering its persist again.

Hey!!! In red and blue you can prevent opponents plays with Teferi, mage of Zhalfir + storm of possibilities... an oldie but goldie.

14:10 Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you stack the triggers right, you can make sure the Persist creature gets hit first before Melira. Then, before the next thing on the stack resolves (the Raptor damage), Persist enters the stack above it and resolves first. Then the Persist creature enters and the Raptor triggers above the old trigger, beginning a loop. So yes, Protean Hulk has the option to cause a draw just in case.

As a mono red aficionado, heartless hitsugu with 3x or more damage multipliers and a skull crack or leyline of punishment to prevent damage prevention means everyone loses as soon as heartless taps for its ability