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Shrieking Drake + Abaddon the Despoiler + Lotus Bloom + Tomb Trawler

U manaB manaR mana
Shrieking Drake
Shrieking Drake
Abaddon the Despoiler
Abaddon the Despoiler
Lotus Bloom
Lotus Bloom
Tomb Trawler
Tomb Trawler
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite storm count

How it works

  1. Cast Shrieking Drake by paying U mana.
  2. Shrieking Drake's cascade ability from Abaddon the Despoiler triggers, causing you to cast Lotus Bloom from your library since it is the only valid card to cast.
  3. Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, triggering itself, returning itself to your hand.
  4. Activate Lotus Bloom by tapping and sacrificing it, adding U manaU manaU mana.
  5. Activate Tomb Trawler by paying 2, putting Lotus Bloom from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.
  6. Repeat.

This ingenious engine uses Abaddon the Despoiler's static *Mark of Chaos Ascendant* ability to turn your hand into a cascade machine, provided your opponents have lost enough life to set the threshold. You cast Shrieking Drake for just one mana, triggering a cascade into the zero-mana Lotus Bloom hidden in your library. Once Lotus Bloom is sacrificed for a sudden burst of mana, Tomb Trawler quietly goes to work in the graveyard, paying two mana to recycle the lotus right back to the bottom of your library so the cascade can find it all over again.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyOathbreakerVintage
2 decks$6.43