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Lost Jitte + Karn's Bastion + Cryptic Trilobite + Shang-Chi, Martial Mentor

G mana
Lost Jitte
Lost Jitte
Karn's Bastion
Karn's Bastion
Cryptic Trilobite
Cryptic Trilobite
Shang-Chi, Martial Mentor
Shang-Chi, Martial Mentor
Infinite proliferate

How it works

  1. Activate Karn's Bastion by paying 4, putting a charge counter on Lost Jitte and two +1/+1 counters on Cryptic Trilobite.
  2. Activate Cryptic Trilobite's first ability twice by removing two +1/+1 counters from it, adding CCCC that can only be spent to activate abilities.
  3. Activate Lost Jitte by removing a charge counter from it, untapping Karn's Bastion.
  4. Repeat.

This ingenious loop turns Karn's Bastion into an infinite proliferation engine by leveraging the explosive growth provided by Shang-Chi, Martial Mentor. When Karn's Bastion proliferates, Shang-Chi doubles the counters added to Cryptic Trilobite and Lost Jitte, allowing Cryptic Trilobite's activated ability to generate more than enough restricted mana to pay for the Bastion's activation and the Lost Jitte ability used to untap it. In the end, Lost Jitte helps fund the mana loop while your entire board compounds infinitely under the Bastion's watchful eye.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyOathbreakerVintage
1 decks$10.67