Rendmaw, Creaking Nest (Artifact Focus)
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Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
Menace, reach When Rendmaw enters and whenever you play a card with two or more card types, each player creates a tapped 2/2 black Bird creature token with flying. The tokens are goaded for the rest of the game. (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
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Boseiju, Who Endures
{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
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Imotekh the Stormlord
Phaeron — Whenever one or more artifact cards leave your graveyard, create two 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens. Grand Strategist — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target artifact creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains menace until end of turn.
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Whip of Erebos
Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
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Banner
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Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)
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Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Grist, the Hunger Tide
As long as Grist isn't on the battlefield, it's a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types. +1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill a card. If an Insect card was milled this way, put a loyalty counter on Grist and repeat this process. −2: You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker. −5: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
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Formless Genesis
Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Create an X/X colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling and deathtouch, where X is the number of land cards in your graveyard. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
Sorcery Kindred
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Infinite ETB triggers. Infinite Storm Count.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Combo 2:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards Required"},{"insert":" - "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":" to be on the field, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rendmaw, Creaking Nest"}},{"insert":" (or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Imotekh the Stormlord"}},{"insert":") to be on the field, 2 of the following: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Workshop Assistant"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Myr Retriever"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scrap Trawler"}},{"insert":" (you will need "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Myr Retriever"}},{"insert":" if choosing "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scrap Trawler"}},{"insert":") to be on the field.\nWith all required cards on the field, sacrifice "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":" to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":", creating 2 colorless mana (floating 2 colorless mana)."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Sacrifice "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Workshop Assistant"}},{"insert":" to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":", creating 2 colorless mana (floating 4 colorless mana)."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Trigger "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Workshop Assistant"}},{"insert":" targeting and returning "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":" to your hand."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"OPTIONAL: If you have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Imotekh the Stormlord"}},{"insert":" on the field, trigger as you move an artifact from your grave, creating 2 2/2 black Necron creature tokens."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":" from your hand using 3 of the 4 floating colorless mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Trigger "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rendmaw, Creaking Nest"}},{"insert":", having each player create a tapped 2/2 black bird token that's goaded for the rest of the game."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Resolve "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":" cast."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Sacrifice "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":" to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":", creating 2 colorless mana (floating 3 colorless mana)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Trigger "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":", targeting and returning "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Workshop Assistant"}},{"insert":" to your hand."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Repeat steps cycling through "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Workshop Assistant"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Junk Diver"}},{"insert":" by sacrificing a bird (or Necron) to generate enough mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Result:"},{"insert":" Each player creates infinite tapped 2/2 black bird tokens that are goaded for the rest of the game. If you only have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Imotekh the Stormlord"}},{"insert":", you will generate an infinite number of 2/2 black Necron tokens.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Alternative Routes:"},{"insert":" Including an artifact reducer will prevent us from sacrificing an additional creature. Including something like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blood Artist"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ayara, First of Locthwain"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Meathook Massacre"}},{"insert":" will result in infinite drain. Cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Essence Warden"}},{"insert":" will generate infinite life.\n"}]}
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