Grist, the Hunger Tide + Doomsday + Wheel of Sun and Moon
How it works
- Cast Doomsday by paying , choosing any five Insects in your graveyard and/or library, exiling the rest of your library and graveyard, then putting the Insects into your library in any order.
- Cast Wheel of Sun and Moon by paying G/WG/W, attaching it to yourself.
- Activate Grist's first loyalty ability by putting a loyalty counter on it, causing you to create a 1/1 Insect creature token, put a loyalty counter on Grist and mill a card.
- The card is instead revealed and put on the bottom of your library due to Wheel of Sun and Moon.
- Repeat the process, causing you to create a 1/1 Insect creature token, put a loyalty counter on Grist and mill a card.
- Because this process will repeat infinitely, the game ends in a draw.
This ingenious loop turns a harmless insect swarm into an infinite engine that forces a draw, utilizing a clever replacement effect to bypass the natural limits of your deck. You begin by casting Doomsday to carefully curate your graveyard and library with five specific Insect cards while stripping away everything else, creating a closed ecosystem. Then, you enchant yourself with Wheel of Sun and Moon, whose vital static ability ensures that any card headed to your graveyard—including the ones you mill—is instead redirected to the bottom of your library in a continuous loop. With that perpetual motion machine in place, you activate Grist, the Hunger Tide and use its +1 ability to start milling and creating Insect tokens. Because Grist's own ability triggers itself to repeat whenever an Insect is milled, and Wheel of Sun and Moon continuously recycles those milled Insects right back to the bottom of your deck, the mill-and-create process becomes an unstoppable, unending loop that forces the game to a draw.