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Combo Name: Experimental Sac / Infinite Turn Engine Submitted By: Gregorius
Card Name
Type
Cost
P/T
Editions (ordered by release)

Shield Sphere
 Artifact Creature 0 0/6 Alliances, Uncommon

Pack Hunt
 Sorcery 3G Nemesis, Rare

Energy Chamber
 Artifact 2 Fifth Dawn, Uncommon

Energy Chamber
 Artifact 2 Fifth Dawn, Uncommon

Steel Wall
 Artifact Creature - Wall 1 0/4 Mirrodin, Common

Colfenor's Urn
 Artifact 3 Lorwyn, Rare

Cauldron of Souls
 Artifact 5 Shadowmoor, Rare

Time Sieve
 Artifact UB Alara Reborn, Rare
Estimated Combo Cost: $9.17
Date Posted: Wed Oct/19/11 at 1:36 am

Gregorius
Posts: 411
Joined: 01-Aug-10

Yeah, I know, it's a whole freaking deck in itself... plus it uses three colors (okay, two if you throw away Time Sieve, but maybe you won't—I'm just using it here as an example). So, you\'re looking at this mess of artifacts and you're thinking, "What the hell am I supposed to do with all of this?" Let me tell you now, Magic the Gathering has never gotten so complicating.

March of the Machines makes the Colfenor's Urn a 3/3 artifact creature whenever it enters the battlefield. With that in mind, you can use Cauldron of Souls to give the Urn persist. Now, with a Steel Wall and at least one Shield Sphere out on the field, you can cast Pack Hunt to find and bring three more Spheres to your hand—and since they have no converted mana cost, they go straight out onto the battlefield. Use them as fodder for the Time Sieve's ability, and watch as the Urn exiles them instead of throwing them to your graveyard. Then at the end of your turn, the Urn sacrifices itself in order to put your four Spheres and the Wall back onto the battlefield... and since you used the Cauldron to give the Urn persist, it comes back with a -1/-1 counter on it. But thanks to Energy Chamber, you can put a +1/+1 counter on the Urn at the beginning of your next turn (which happens immediately) negating the other counter, and tap the Cauldron again to give the Urn persist again. Repeat ad infinitum... or maybe if you're lucky, you'll rack your opponent's brain so hard that they'll forfeit the game just to make you stop this artifact-induced madness! Not to say that you can only use this with Time Sieve—you could use any other sac engine for any other effect you could want, be it for mana or damage. And now I ask...

...any questions?

I know, I know—I live to confuse.
Date Posted: Wed Oct/19/11 at 11:56am

Moose Springsteen
Posts: 28
Joined: 23-Dec-09

yes question...how quick/effective can this 8 card 3 color combo really be?
Date Posted: Wed Oct/19/11 at 12:16pm

TheCaptain
Posts: 909
Joined: 13-Apr-11

You could get all of this out by turn 5 if you just added a sol ring to it.
T1: Island, Sol Ring, Sheild Sphere, Energy Chamber
T2: Forest, Pack Hunt, Three more Shield Spheres
T3: Swamp, Colfenors Urn, Time Seive
T4: Island, Steel Wall, Cauldron of Souls
T5: Any land, March of the machines, infinite turns.
Date Posted: Wed Oct/19/11 at 1:32pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

@ Moose

You do realize that he used a huge paragraph to say that it was rather implausible.
Date Posted: Sat Jan/19/13 at 8:24am

olavman
Posts: 11
Joined: 30-Dec-12

Question. Does the urn still keep the persist ability after it dies? I dont think so.



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