Doctor Octopus, Master Planner + Lyla, Holographic Assistant + Sage of Hours + Witch-king of Angmar

Doctor Octopus, Master Planner

Lyla, Holographic Assistant

Sage of Hours

Witch-king of Angmar

How it works

1. If you have more than three cards in hand, activate Witch-king of Angmar by discarding a card.
2. Repeat step 1 until you have three or fewer cards in hand.
3. At the beginning of your end step, Doctor Octopus triggers, causing you to draw at least five cards.
4. Lyla triggers for each card drawn, putting that many +1/+1 counters on Sage of Hours.
5. Activate Sage of Hours by removing all +1/+1 counters from it, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
6. Repeat each turn.

This ingenious setup exploits the elegant synergy between your hand size and counter distribution to lock down the game and take endless turns. As you burn through your resources by pitching cards to activate Witch-king of Angmar's self-protection ability, you safely drop your hand size to three or fewer. This sets the stage for Doctor Octopus, Master Planner to trigger at your end step, reliably drawing you five or more cards to make up the difference. Every single one of those draws immediately triggers Lyla, Holographic Assistant, flooding Sage of Hours with a massive pile of +1/+1 counters. You then cash in those counters with Sage of Hours's ability to chain infinite extra turns, ensuring your opponents never get to untap again.