Da Cube Guide

Put the creature in with Flash, decline to pay, and let it die. Worldspine Wurm leaves three 5/5 tramplers and shuffles itself back in. Torsten digs seven cards for creatures and lands on the way in and leaves seven 1/1 Soldiers on the way out. Woodfall Primus destroys a noncreature permanent, dies, and persists back as a 5/5. Vaultborn Tyrant draws a card and gains 3, dies, and leaves a 6/6 token copy that draws and gains again. Triplicate Titan leaves three 3/3s. Murderous Redcap shoots for two, dies, persists, and shoots for two again. Atraxa does not care about dying at all: her enter trigger reveals ten cards and takes up to one of each type, so Flash into Atraxa is four or five cards for two mana. With Luminous Broodmoth in play, anything Flashed in that dies without flying comes straight back with a flying counter: Torsten after his seven Soldiers, Primus after its Vindicate, Metamorphosis Fanatic for a third enter trigger.

Two mana, at instant speed, on the opponent's end step: 15 power of Wurms, or a 5/5 plus a Vindicate, or seven Soldiers and a full hand. Nothing else in the cube is close to this rate.

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Flash puts Fanatic in and sacrifices it during Flash's own resolution. Fanatic's enter trigger goes on the stack afterwards, when Fanatic is already in the graveyard, so the trigger can target Fanatic itself and return it with a lifelink counter. Always do that: Fanatic entering again gives you a second enter trigger, and if a Griselbrand or Archon is also in the graveyard, that second trigger takes it. You get both.

A 4/4 lifelink for two mana at instant speed, and a two-mana instant-speed Reanimate on top if a Griselbrand is already in the graveyard. Fanatic's miracle cost does the same job on your draw step if Brainstorm or Top sets it up.

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The five Moxen (Sapphire shown for all of them) and Sol Ring make turn 1 and 2 plays that a normal deck cannot: turn 1 Karn or Tezzeret, turn 2 Urza or Kappa Cannoneer. Tolarian Academy taps for one per artifact. Urza turns every artifact into a blue mana and makes a Construct the size of your board. Mystic Forge and Emry give card advantage off the artifacts you already play. Kinnan doubles every rock. Balance is one-sided when your mana is artifacts.

Explosive starts and a mana engine that also fuels Tinker and the Monolith combos on the Combos tab.

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Sacrifice a Mox or bauble, put the best artifact in your deck onto the battlefield.

Blightsteel kills in one hit; Citadel and Portal take over the game; Battlesphere and the Titans are just very large for three mana.

Curve out with one- and two-drops, then punish the slow decks: Thalia taxes every ritual and cantrip, Ravages of War locks a board that already has your creatures on it, Luminous Broodmoth brings every non-flier back once, Jitte and Skullclamp win any creature fight. Ocelot Pride, Guide of Souls and Ajani snowball if left alone. Burn finishes what combat started.

The fastest clock in the cube against decks that spend turns 1 to 3 setting up. Beats reanimator and storm on speed; struggles against Balance, wraths and a well-timed Sheoldred.

Tutor the equipment, then cheat it in for two mana with Stoneforge's ability.

Kaldra is a 5/5 indestructible hasty first-striker that exiles what it fights, on turn 3. Batterskull is the slower, safer version; Jitte is the one that just wins combat.

Clamp a 1/1 token, it dies, draw two.

Lingering Souls alone is eight cards for five mana. Any of the others turn a spare mana into two cards every turn.

Entomb plus Reanimate is a turn 1 Griselbrand or Archon of Cruelty. Any self-discard does the same job a turn later: Thoughtseize yourself, Liliana's +1, a Psychic Frog activation, Collective Brutality's escalate cost, or the loot on Seasoned Pyromancer and Fear of Missing Out. Persist and Unmarked Grave only hit nonlegendary cards (Archon, Worldspine Wurm, Craterhoof, Troll, Woodfall Primus). Goryo's Vengeance only hits legendary ones (Griselbrand, Emrakul, Atraxa, Etali, Sheoldred). Emrakul shuffles itself away when it hits the graveyard, so only the instants (Goryo's, Shallow Grave, Corpse Dance) can get it, cast in response to the shuffle trigger. Buried Ogre starts the game in your graveyard, so Reanimate on turn 1 is a 6/4. Metamorphosis Fanatic reanimates for two mana if you miracle it (set up with Brainstorm, Top or Mystical Tutor). Emperor of Bones borrows a creature from a graveyard each turn for two mana.

An eight-drop on turn 1 or 2. Griselbrand refills your hand, Archon is a one-card Mind Twist plus Ancestral, Atraxa draws four or five.

Pay seven life, draw seven, Sheoldred gives back fourteen.

Draw your deck at a profit of life.

Narset and Leovold cap the opponent at one card, so you draw seven and they draw one. Hullbreacher turns each of their draws into a Treasure for you. Bowmasters pings once per card drawn and amasses a 7/7. Sheoldred makes them lose 14 life.

With Sheoldred or Bowmasters a wheel is often just lethal; with Narset or Hullbreacher it is a one-sided double Ancestral.

Crack the Lotus and rituals, then replay all of them from the graveyard with Yawgmoth's Will or Breach, along with your tutors and cantrips. Doomsday is its own finisher: it builds a five-card pile that ends in Thassa's Oracle (see the Combos tab).

Double your mana and storm count, then Tendrils drains for 20 or Brain Freeze mills the opponent out.

Fetchlands are the fuel: every fetch is a land entering (landfall) and a land leaving (Titania, Tracker's Clues) and, with Icetill Explorer, Crucible or Ramunap Excavator, you play the same fetch again from the graveyard next turn. Icetill Explorer is Crucible and Exploration in one card. Wrenn and Six and Six put lands back in hand. Fastbond turns a handful of lands and Gush into a burst of landfall triggers.

Grinding card advantage from your mana base, and a Strip Mine every turn against anything greedy. The Titania and Fastbond loops on the Combos tab live in this deck.

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Every land you sacrifice with Titania in play makes a 5/3 Elemental. Zuran Orb and Safekeeper are free outlets at instant speed, and every fetchland you crack counts (Wooded Foothills stands in for all of them). Add Icetill Explorer, Crucible or Ramunap Excavator and the same fetchland or Strip Mine makes a 5/3 every turn.

Turn your lands into an army. Icetill Explorer plus a fetchland is two 5/3s a turn; with Strip Mine it is a 5/3 and a land kill every turn.

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Each time one of your creatures is targeted it draws a card or drops a land, twice per creature per turn. Safekeeper (sacrifice a land), Greaves (equip 0), and the Mothers all target for free. Springheart Nantuko copies whatever the lands land on.

Two extra cards per creature per turn for nothing. Not infinite here, but it buries the opponent in cards.

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Show and Tell puts anything onto the battlefield, artifacts included, so Blightsteel, Portal to Phyrexia and Bolas's Citadel are live. Sneak Attack and Through the Breach give haste for one turn: Emrakul attacks for 15 and annihilates six, Griselbrand draws 14, and Worldspine Wurm leaves three 5/5 tramplers behind when it is sacrificed at end of turn. Oath only needs the opponent to control more creatures than you. Luminous Broodmoth turns Sneak Attack's end-of-turn sacrifice into a permanent creature for anything without flying: Craterhoof and Etali stay, though Griselbrand, Emrakul and Atraxa already fly and still leave. Channel is the odd one out: it pays for the colorless bombs (Emrakul, Blightsteel, Portal, Sundering Titan, Ugin) on turn 2, but you cast them normally, so no haste and you are at very low life.

A turn 2 or 3 Emrakul or Griselbrand. Karakas bounces your legendary creature in response to the Sneak Attack or Breach sacrifice so you keep it, and in the other seat it is the land that answers the same creatures for a tap.

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Eight one-mana dorks plus Gaea's Cradle mean four or five mana on turn 2. Green Sun's Zenith is a dork on turn 1 and a finisher later. Kinnan doubles every dork. Nissa doubles every Forest and animates them.

Turn 3 Primeval Titan, or Natural Order into a lethal Craterhoof by turn 4. Natural Order for Worldspine Wurm is 15 power of trample for four mana; Woodfall Primus is a Vindicate on a 6/6 that persists.

Draft Ephemerate, leave it in your sideboard, and reveal Savant before shuffling to exile it. Savant enters, casts a free copy of Ephemerate targeting itself, blinks, enters again, casts another copy. That is one card in your deck making infinite enter triggers and infinite cast spells. Dualcaster Mage does the same loop with an Ephemerate cast from hand, and both feed the cast-payoff entry on the Combos tab. Anything that triggers on a creature entering, on a spell being cast, or on magecraft goes off: Witherbloom drains, Sedgemoor Witch makes Pests, Vivi and Rusko ping, Mentor and Iconoclast make tokens, Anafenza and Guide of Souls put counters and life on the board, and the storm count is whatever you want it to be for Brain Freeze or Tendrils.

A five-mana creature that is a one-card infinite combo, with the second card chosen at draft time. It also survives every removal spell aimed at it, since the copy of Ephemerate resolves in response.

The exiled card does not have to be Ephemerate. Savant with an exiled Time Walk is an extra turn every time it enters, so every Ephemerate, Kitten trigger or Kiki copy is another turn. Show and Tell, Natural Order and Reanimate put your best card into play on the enter trigger. Chain of Smog is the magecraft engine on the Combos tab. Kiki-Jiki copies of Savant each cast the copy again.

Whichever spell you exiled, on repeat. Savant plus Kiki-Jiki plus an exiled Time Walk is infinite turns.

Tap the rock, cast a cheap spell, Kitten blinks the rock and it comes back untapped, tap it again. Mana Vault and the Monoliths, which normally stay tapped, untap on every spell. Coveted Jewel is three mana and three cards per spell. Manifold Key untaps a second artifact on top. With Teferi, Time Raveler bouncing the rock this is infinite (Combos tab).

Each cantrip nets mana and often cards, so a hand of one-mana spells becomes a whole turn of free casting. Coveted Jewel is the best of the rocks: three mana and three cards for every noncreature spell you cast, and if the opponent steals the Jewel by attacking, the next blink returns it to you.

Arcane Savant casts a free copy of its exiled spell on every blink. Clocknapper steals another phase of the opponent's next turn on every blink. Spellseeker tutors a two-mana spell, you cast it, and Spellseeker tutors the next one. Planeswalkers come back with fresh loyalty, which is how the Teferi and Tamiyo loops on the Combos tab work.

A tutor chain, a phase-stealing lock, or the one-card Savant loop, all driven by the spells you were casting anyway.

Lurrus lets you cast one permanent with mana value two or less from your graveyard each turn. Baleful Strix is a deathtouch cantrip every turn, Dark Confidant and Caustic Bronco keep drawing after they die, Jacked Rabbit comes back for whatever X you have, and Lion's Eye Diamond or a Bauble is a free spell each turn. Unearth does the same job once for anything up to mana value three, including Snapcaster and Spellseeker.

Chump-block, trade, and sacrifice freely: the two-drops always come back. With Displacer Kitten and a Petal it is infinite (Combos tab).

Snapcaster flashes Time Walk back for two more mana. Witness and Tamiyo return it to hand. Noxious Revival puts it on top. Yawgmoth's Will and Breach cast it from the graveyard. Lutri copies it on the way in. Spellseeker finds it in the first place. Each of those is one extra turn; the Kiki-Jiki, Ephemerate and Scepter loops on the Combos tab are how it becomes infinite.

Three or four turns in a row, which with any clock on the board is the game.

Combo: Get rid of your library, then Oracle's trigger (or a Jace draw) wins. Demonic Consultation is the cheapest version: cast it for one mana with Oracle's enter trigger already on the stack, name a card that is not in your deck, and it exiles your whole library looking for it, so the trigger resolves with an empty library. Thought Lash's last ability costs nothing and has no tap, so it exiles your whole library at instant speed. Doomsday leaves a five-card pile you build so a cantrip or two draws you into Oracle. Oath of Druids in a deck with no other creature cards mills the whole library on your upkeep; that version only works with Jace, since Oath would find Oracle.

Result: Win the game. Tainted Pact is listed under Tutors instead: it can empty the library only in a deck with no two cards of the same name, which a cube deck with basics never is.

Combo: Infinity Elemental has infinite power and nothing else, so any blocker stops it and it cannot attack the turn it lands. Cori-Steel Cutter gives it trample and haste for a two-mana equip, so it attacks for infinite the turn after it is cast, or the same turn if the Cutter is already down. Kaldra Compleat (Stoneforge puts it in for two) gives trample, haste and first strike too. Cycling Agonasaur Rex at instant speed gives trample and indestructible after blockers. Altar of Dementia skips combat entirely: sacrifice the Elemental to mill the opponent's whole library.

Result: One attack for infinite damage through any board, or an infinite mill. Fire Covenant and Broadside Bombardiers do not work, since they use mana value or life paid rather than power.

Combo: Tap Kiki-Jiki (or the creature Twin is on) to make a hasty copy. Exarch and Pestermite untap Kiki or the enchanted creature as they enter; Conscripts gains control of it and untaps it. Tap again. Restoration Angel works the other way round: the copy blinks Kiki-Jiki, who comes back untapped. She does not pair with Splinter Twin, since blinking the enchanted creature drops the aura and her copies cannot blink an Angel. The Jolly Balloon Man is the budget engine: same loop, but each copy costs one mana and is sorcery speed, so it makes as many hasty 1/1 fliers as you have mana, or infinite with a Monolith loop.

Result: Infinite hasty attackers the turn the second piece lands (mana-limited with Balloon Man). Goblin Bombardment or Altar of Dementia turns the loop into infinite damage or mill without attacking.

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Combo: Needs delirium (four card types in your graveyard). Copy Fear of Missing Out and attack with the copy: it untaps Kiki-Jiki or the Twin creature and gives an extra combat. Copy again in the next combat.

Result: Infinite combat phases with a growing team of hasty 2/3s.

Combo: Helm mills until a creature card is put into the graveyard. With Rest in Peace or Dauthi Voidwalker nothing is ever put into a graveyard, so Helm with X=1 exiles the opponent's entire library.

Result: Opponent loses on their next draw. Voidwalker can then be sacrificed to play one of the exiled cards for free.

Combo: Spike Feeder: remove a counter to gain 2 life, and Heliod or Thune puts a counter straight back. Walking Ballista: give it lifelink (Heliod does that itself; Thune needs another source such as Batterskull or Sheltered by Ghosts), and each ping gains a life, which puts a counter back on Ballista.

Result: Spike Feeder gives infinite life, and with Thune an arbitrarily large team. Ballista gives infinite damage to any target. Sorin of House Markov turns the Feeder version into a kill too: he flips after you gain three in a turn, and the flipped side's -1 deals damage equal to all the life you gained that turn.

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Combo: Cast Chain of Smog targeting yourself and keep choosing to copy it, targeting yourself again. Every copy triggers magecraft. Empty your hand first so the discards cost you nothing.

Result: Witherbloom Apprentice drains the opponent out on turn 2 or 3. Sedgemoor Witch makes as many 1/1 Pests as you like.

Combo: The Monolith taps for three and untaps for less than three. Kinnan adds a fourth mana when Basalt Monolith is tapped. Zirda cuts Basalt's untap to one and Grim's to two. Gadgeteer cuts Basalt's untap to two. Grim Monolith only works with Zirda; with Kinnan or Gadgeteer it breaks even.

Result: Infinite colorless mana. Spend it on Walking Ballista, Kinnan's own ability (a free non-Human creature per activation), or an X spell. Sensei's Divining Top turns the mana into your whole deck: tap Top to draw a card, Top goes on top of your library, recast it for one, repeat.

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Combo: Animate a Forest with Nissa and bestow Nantuko on it. Play a land: Nantuko makes a token copy of the Forest, which is a land entering, which triggers Nantuko again. Each new Forest taps for GG thanks to Nissa, paying for the next copy.

Result: Infinite Forests and infinite green mana, and every landfall card you control (Lotus Cobra, Scythecat Cub, Bristly Bill) goes off at the same time.

Combo: Tap Top to draw a card and put Top on top of your library, then cast Top again from the top: for one life through Citadel, or for one mana through Mystic Forge. Repeat.

Result: Draw your whole deck at one life or one mana per card. Sheoldred, the Apocalypse with Citadel makes it infinite (gain 2 per draw). Artist's Talent at level 2 makes Top free through Mystic Forge.

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Combo: Every turn, copy or blink Witness to get the extra-turn spell back from the graveyard and cast it again. Balloon Man's one mana a turn is trivial here. Ephemerate rebounds on the extra turn, and Witness then returns Ephemerate itself, so it keeps going.

Result: Infinite turns as long as you can pay for the Warp each turn.

Combo: Copy Fanatic. With its enter trigger on the stack, sacrifice Kiki-Jiki (or Balloon Man); the Fanatic token returns it untapped and you go again. Balloon Man has haste, so he can activate again as soon as he returns, one mana a time. Yawgmoth sacrifices for a life instead of mana and draws a card on every iteration.

Result: Infinite mill (Altar) or infinite damage (Bombardment), or your whole deck at a life a card (Yawgmoth); as much as your mana allows with Balloon Man.

Combo: Pay 1 and sacrifice Sword to Foundry: a 1/1 Thopter enters, you gain a life, and Sword comes back attached to it. Urza taps the new Thopter for U to pay for the next activation, so with Urza the loop is free. The others pay per iteration: Apprentice drains one each time the Sword hits the graveyard, Syr Ginger grows, Skullclamp draws two when the Thopter dies.

Result: With Urza: infinite Thopters, life and blue mana. Otherwise one mana per drain, per two cards, or per flier and life. Tribute Mage finds both artifacts.

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Combo: Crack LED or Lotus for three mana, Salvagers returns it for two. Net one mana of any color per loop. Salvagers also returns the Spellbomb each time.

Result: Infinite mana. Pyrite Spellbomb deals 2 per loop, Aether Spellbomb draws your deck, Ballista pings.

Combo: Sacrifice the creature. It persists back with a -1/-1 counter, a +1/+1 counter cancels it, and it is fresh again. Murderous Redcap shoots for two every time it enters, so with Redcap the loop is the kill and the outlet only has to be free: Dimir House Guard's regenerate ability sacrifices a creature at no cost, and so do Bombardment and Altar. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician costs a life rather than mana and draws a card each time, and his -1/-1 counter targets up to one creature, so decline it and the loop is untouched; with Kitchen Finks the two life back pays for him, otherwise the life total is the limit. Anafenza bolsters whenever a nontoken creature enters. Muzzio's Preparations is a drafted conspiracy: name the persist creature and it enters with a +1/+1 counter every time, from the command zone, so with it this is really a two-card combo. Luminous Broodmoth fixes it a different way: the creature dies without flying and Broodmoth returns it clean with a flying counter; it dies again and persist returns it with a -1/-1 counter and no flying; it dies a third time and Broodmoth returns it clean again, so the two effects alternate forever. Heliod and Thune put the counter on when Finks' lifegain trigger resolves, so those two only work with Finks. Glen Elendra Archmage loops the same way with Anafenza or Muzzio's, and is its own outlet: sacrifice it to counter a noncreature spell, it persists back, the counter is cancelled, and it can counter the next one. Bolster goes to your creature with the least toughness, so keep Archmage the smallest thing you control or pick it on a tie. Woodfall Primus destroys a noncreature permanent every time it enters (Reanimate, Persist or Natural Order get it into play).

Result: Infinite damage (Bombardment, or Redcap's own trigger) or infinite mill (Altar), plus infinite life with Finks. With Primus, every noncreature permanent the opponent owns is destroyed first. With Archmage, the opponent never resolves a noncreature spell again, for U each. Finks' infinite life becomes infinite damage through Sorin of House Markov's flipped -1. Marionette Apprentice drains one per loop on top. Luminarch Aspirant, The Wandering Emperor and Spike Feeder also fix the counter, but once a turn or for two mana a time, so they give a persist creature that comes back every turn rather than a loop.

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Combo: Cast the rock, Kitten blinks Teferi with fresh loyalty, Teferi -3 bounces the rock and draws a card. Tap the rock for mana before it is bounced.

Result: Draw your whole deck and make infinite mana. Swap the rock for The One Ring and you get protection from everything every turn instead.

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Combo: Cast the ritual, Kitten blinks Witness, Witness returns the ritual.

Result: Infinite black mana and infinite storm count, so Tendrils of Agony or Brain Freeze kills.

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Combo: Cast the artifact from the graveyard with Lurrus, Kitten blinks Lurrus (a fresh Lurrus may cast another spell from the graveyard this turn), sacrifice the artifact, repeat.

Result: Infinite mana of any color with Petal or LED; infinite storm count and card draw with the Baubles.

Combo: Brain Freeze yourself to fill the graveyard, escape the mana artifact and crack it, escape Brain Freeze again with a bigger storm count.

Result: Mill the opponent's whole library, or turn the mana and storm count into Tendrils of Agony. Breach with LED and Wheel of Fortune loops for infinite draws as well.

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Combo: Sacrifice a land, replay it from the graveyard for one damage from Fastbond. Zuran Orb gains two per land, so the loop nets a life. Strip Mine as the sacrifice destroys one of the opponent's lands per life paid. Icetill Explorer mills a card per land, so with it the loop is capped by your library.

Result: Zuran Orb: infinite life, and infinite mana with Lotus Cobra or infinite 5/3s with Titania. Sorin of House Markov converts the infinite life into infinite damage with his flipped -1. Strip Mine: all of the opponent's lands are gone.

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Combo: Each turn, Scepter copies Noxious Revival to put the extra-turn spell on top of your library, you draw it and cast it.

Result: Infinite turns for four mana a turn with Time Walk, seven with Time Warp.

Combo: Badgermole Cub earthbends a land into a creature; bestow Nantuko on it. Each Nantuko copy is a plain land token that enters untapped: Cobra gives one mana, tapping the token gives another, which pays for the next copy.

Result: Infinite land tokens and landfall triggers.

Combo: Four engines in the cube cast a spell over and over. Dualcaster Mage with Ephemerate: cast Ephemerate on anything, flash in Dualcaster with it on the stack, copy Ephemerate targeting Dualcaster, and Dualcaster re-enters with the original Ephemerate still on the stack to copy again. Then Arcane Savant with an exiled Ephemerate, Displacer Kitten with Lurrus and a Petal or with Eternal Witness and a ritual, and Underworld Breach with Brain Freeze and a Lotus. Anything that triggers on a noncreature spell being cast then goes off with them. Vivi Ornitier deals a damage to each opponent per spell. Iconoclast, Mentor, Sedgemoor Witch and Saheeli make a token per spell. Witherbloom and Rusko drain one per spell. Guide of Souls and Anafenza trigger on the creature entering instead, for infinite life and energy or infinite counters.

Result: Dualcaster plus Ephemerate is the cheapest of the loops, four mana at instant speed with both cards in the deck. Vivi is a kill in the loop itself, with no other card. Iconoclast makes an arbitrarily large board of artifact Soldiers, which also switches on Kappa Cannoneer and Urza. The rest end the game the same way, one trigger at a time.

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Combo: Imprint the instant and pay two each turn to copy it. Orim's Chant on the opponent's upkeep every turn means they never cast a spell again. A counterspell every turn is nearly as good. Ephemerate on a Scepter blinks a creature with an enter trigger every turn.

Result: Chant is a hard lock. The others are a value engine that decides long games.

Combo: Strip a land, get Strip Mine back (Wrenn returns it to hand; Crucible, Excavator and Icetill Explorer let you play it from the graveyard), replay it, repeat every turn. Wasteland only hits nonbasics.

Result: Opponent never keeps a land. Icetill Explorer also gives an extra land drop, so it Strips twice a turn on its own; Exploration or Fastbond do the same for the others.

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Combo: Flickerwisp blinks Wave to reset its fade counters. For the permanent version you need both: activate Wave on the opponent's creatures, and with those activations still on the stack, Ephemerate Flickerwisp so it blinks Wave. Wave leaves before the exiles resolve, so its return trigger brings nothing back.

Result: Five creatures exiled for good.

Combo: Tainted Pact is a two-mana instant-speed Demonic Tutor with a catch: it exiles cards one at a time until you take one, and it stops dead at the second card with a name you have already seen. Keep the basics to one of each name, or accept that it usually digs through the top ten or so rather than the whole deck. Demonic Consultation is one mana for any card in the deck, but it exiles the top six plus everything above the card you name, so it is for the deck that either wins on the spot or does not care about its library; naming a card that is not in your deck exiles the whole library and wins with Thassa's Oracle. Bring to Light with five colors finds and casts for free anything up to mana value five: Kiki-Jiki, Doomsday, Tinker, Natural Order, Reanimate, Time Walk, Show and Tell, Balance. Waterlogged Teachings finds an instant or a flash card: Flash itself, Pestermite, Deceiver Exarch, Brain Freeze, Goryo's Vengeance, Shallow Grave. Tezzeret, Cruel Captain and Urza's Saga find the one-mana artifacts: Lion's Eye Diamond, Black Lotus, Sensei's Top, Skullclamp, Zuran Orb, both Spellbombs (Saga puts them straight into play). Eladamri's Call is Worldly Tutor to hand, at instant speed, for any creature: Kiki-Jiki, Thassa's Oracle, Griselbrand for the reanimator, or a persist creature. Imperial Recruiter finds Kiki-Jiki, Deceiver Exarch, Thassa's Oracle, Auriok Salvagers, Spike Feeder, Kinnan, Displacer Kitten and Walking Ballista. Recruiter of the Guard finds Kiki-Jiki, Pestermite, Kitchen Finks, Anafenza, Glen Elendra Archmage, Eternal Witness, Kinnan, Displacer Kitten and Walking Ballista. Trinket Mage finds the same one-mana artifacts as Saga. Tribute Mage finds Grim Monolith, Isochron Scepter, Thopter Foundry and Sword of the Meek. Spellseeker finds Chain of Smog, Entomb, Reanimate, Goryo's Vengeance, Ephemerate, Brain Freeze and Time Walk. Muddle the Mixture transmutes for Thassa's Oracle, Underworld Breach, Isochron Scepter, Oath of Druids, Animate Dead, Sword, Foundry and Grim Monolith. Enlightened Tutor finds Splinter Twin, Sneak Attack, Oath, Helm, Rest in Peace, Bolas's Citadel and Recurring Nightmare. Dimir House Guard transmutes for mana value four: Splinter Twin, Sneak Attack, Natural Order, Eureka, Tendrils of Agony, Helm of Obedience, Displacer Kitten, Auriok Salvagers, Luminous Broodmoth, Murderous Redcap, Glen Elendra Archmage, and its body is a free sacrifice outlet for the persist loop. Primeval Titan fetches Strip Mine, Karakas, Gaea's Cradle or Tolarian Academy onto the battlefield. Entomb and Unmarked Grave are the reanimator's tutors; Doomsday is the Oracle deck's. Ugin's ultimate finds every colorless nonland card and casts it free, Blightsteel included. Summoner's Bond is a drafted conspiracy that names two creatures, so casting one fetches the other: Kiki-Jiki and Deceiver Exarch, Kitchen Finks and Anafenza.

Result: Most two-card combos here are effectively one card plus a tutor.