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[breadgod]

Can you explain the infinite combo?

[Sylavus]

Sure thing, not a problem.

so the trick is all in the lumbering battlement, by using 3 of them, you can cycle the wall of lost thoughts in and out of play.

so you have the wall in play.

next you play battlement(1) and exile the wall.

next battlement(2) comes into play and exile battlement(1). the wall comes back into play.

play battlement(3) and exile battlement(2) and the wall. battlement(1) comes back into play.

battlement(1) will exile battlement(3). battlement(2) and the wall return to play.

battlement(2) exiles battlement(1) and the wall. battlement(3) reutrns to play.

this cycles will continue until your opponent is milled out, 4 cards at a time.  the glorius part is that unless your opponent counters the initial playing on the wall or the battlements, the cycle will never end, because they are all ETB effects. so there are no triggered abilities or activated abilities to counter even.

[Sylavus]

the easiest way to see it, is simply use 4 cards. 3 of them as lumbering battlement and 1 as a wall of lost thoughts, and just cycle the lumbers battlements and the wall using the ETB effect of the lumbering battlements.

[alekseevic]

"the glorius part is that unless your opponent counters the initial playing on the wall or the battlements, the cycle will never end, because they are all ETB effects. so there are no triggered abilities or activated abilities to counter even." is wrong.
A ETB effect is a triggered ability (when...) and can be countered by Repudiate (speaking of the current standard-legal sets). Since it's an ability on the stack it can also be responded to by removing either the wall or the battlement.

[Sylavus]

Well thank you for this information. I dont know every card in standard, so i was unaware of any card that could stop the combo besides a direct removal or direct kill card. Which i figured would be used on the battlement once it came into play the first time if it wasnt countered when it was played. Because even if you cant get the combo going, the battlement is still a huge creature with just 1 of the walls, there is no way to tell what other things you exiled with it amd made it just freaking huge with. But thank you again for proving me wrong and telling me about a card that can kill my combo. Have a great day.

[Nils]

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