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Bristly Bill, Spine Sower + Crystalline Crawler + Chromatic Orrery

G mana
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
Crystalline Crawler
Crystalline Crawler
Chromatic Orrery
Chromatic Orrery
Infinite colored manaInfinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures

How it works

  1. Activate Bristly Bill by paying 5, doubling the number of +1/+1 counters on creatures you control.
  2. Activate Crystalline Crawler three times by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, adding six C that can only be spent to activate abilities.
  3. Repeat.
  4. Activate Bristly Bill by paying 3G manaG mana, doubling the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
  5. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability five times by removing five +1/+1 counters from it, adding 3G manaG mana.
  6. Repeat.
  7. If Crystalline Crawler has six or more +1/+1 counters on it to start the combo, this combo results in infinite colored mana.

This ingenious loop turns simple counter-manipulation into boundless magical energy by turning Crystalline Crawler into a self-recharging battery. With Chromatic Orrery smoothing your mana and letting you spend those colorless charges as though they were any color, you have the ultimate color-fixing engine to satisfy strict activation costs. Meanwhile, Bristly Bill, Spine Sower acts as the ultimate amplifier, periodically doubling your counter reserves so that stripping them away for mana yields far more than you put in.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyOathbreakerVintage
56 decks$74.72