Cryptolith Rite + Ant Queen + Frostcliff Siege + Bard, King of Dale
How it works
- Activate Ant Queen by paying 1, creating two creature tokens.
- Activate the creature tokens by tapping them, adding 1.
- Repeat
This synergy turns a modest insect farm into an engine of endless multiplication, completely sustained by the mana those very bugs produce. **Cryptolith Rite** is the true catalyst here, granting your creatures the ability to tap for mana so they can instantly pay for the activation cost of **Ant Queen**. Meanwhile, **Bard, King of Dale** doubles every token the Queen produces, ensuring that your investment yields more than enough tapped bodies to break even on the mana required to keep the loop going. **Frostcliff Siege** watches over the whole operation, providing a Temur stance for raw stats and haste, or a Jeskai stance that can turn those endless ETBs and combat threats into a cascading draw engine, which Bard further amplifies into explosive card advantage.