Horseshoe Crab + Cryptolith Rite + Nyxbloom Ancient

Horseshoe Crab

Cryptolith Rite

Nyxbloom Ancient

How it works

1. Activate Horseshoe Crab by tapping it, adding .
2. Activate Horseshoe Crab by paying , untapping it.
3. Repeat.

This clever loop turns a humble crustacean into an engine for infinite colored mana by weaving together three synergistic pieces. Cryptolith Rite gives your creatures the ability to tap for mana, transforming Horseshoe Crab into a mana producer. Meanwhile, Nyxbloom Ancient acts as a powerful amplifier, tripling any mana produced from tapping a permanent—meaning the single blue mana you spend to untap the crab via its own ability is vastly outweighed by the triple blue mana it yields when tapped, leaving you with a net profit of infinite mana.