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Shrieking Drake + Abaddon the Despoiler + Lotus Bloom + Hoverstone Pilgrim

U manaB manaR mana
Shrieking Drake
Shrieking Drake
Abaddon the Despoiler
Abaddon the Despoiler
Lotus Bloom
Lotus Bloom
Hoverstone Pilgrim
Hoverstone Pilgrim
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 Hoverstone Pilgrim by paying 2, putting Lotus Bloom from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.
  6. Repeat.

This clever loop relies on Abaddon the Despoiler to turn your blue spells into cascade engines once opponents have lost enough life, ensuring that casting Shrieking Drake will always cascade directly into your only valid spell, Lotus Bloom. Because Shrieking Drake's mandatory entry trigger bounces itself back to your hand, you can continuously replay it for a single blue mana while generating an infinite storm count and endless enters-the-battlefield triggers. To keep the combo going indefinitely, Hoverstone Pilgrim provides the crucial graveyard recursion needed to shuffle the sacrificed Lotus Bloom back to the bottom of your library so it can be cascaded into all over again.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyOathbreakerVintage
0 decks$6.39