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Inexorable Tide + Crystalline Crawler + Gemstone Array + Whitemane Lion

W manaU mana
Inexorable Tide
Inexorable Tide
Crystalline Crawler
Crystalline Crawler
Gemstone Array
Gemstone Array
Whitemane Lion
Whitemane Lion
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite proliferateInfinite storm count

How it works

  1. Cast Whitemane Lion by paying 1W mana.
  2. Inexorable Tide triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Crystalline Crawler and a charge counter on Gemstone Array.
  3. When Whitemane Lion enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
  4. Activate Gemstone Array's second ability by removing a charge counter from it, adding W mana.
  5. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, adding 1.
  6. Repeat.

This clever loop relies on Inexorable Tide to act as a persistent engine, proliferating your board state every single time you cast a spell. While Whitemane Lion endlessly bounces itself back to your hand upon entering the battlefield to feed your cast count, Crystalline Crawler and Gemstone Array work together as a color-fixing battery; you spend the mana generated by removing their counters to recast the Lion, only to replenish those exact counters when Inexorable Tide triggers on the cast.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyOathbreakerVintage
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