u/InsanityOvrload

Indo/Dragon's Approach (Potentially) Infinite combo help

I'm building an [[Indoraptor, the perfect Hybrid]] [[Dragon'sApproach]] themed deck.

The idea of the deck came from Indo working very well with Dragon's Approach. Cast it once and Indo enters with 9 counters on it for 6 mana; assuming it's the first cast and you've got no cost reducers in play. Cast it twice and Indo enters with 18 counters; Seems very fun and getting that 9 mana with green shouldn't be an issue.

A strong wincon is just casting [[Chandra's Ignition]] on Indo after buffing it up and having any of the damage doublers on the field like [[Twinflame Tyrant]], [[Solphim, Mayhem Dominus]], [[Obosh, the Preypiercer]], or [[Torbran, Thane of Red Fell]]. I can even grab the dragon needed from the Dragon Approach casts.

However; I'd also like to include some jank combos that would allow me to infinitely (potentially anyway provided the draws are in my favor) cast Dragon's Approach until I burn the table to death. This is really easy in Jeskai colors, however the problem is I've never really brewed a deck with black; I've pretty much only run Naya, Jeskai, or Simic. I know black is capable of generating infinite mana and card draw, I'm just not familiar enough to put it together for this idea.

So far I've put together one really good infinite combo that requires 3 cards and quite a few janky infinite combos that requires at least 5 cards on the table to function.

With [[Birgi, God of Storytelling]] or [[Storm-Kiln Artist]], [[Syr Carah, the Bold]], and a cost reducer such as [[Witherbloom, the Balancer]] (which I can grab from Approach casts) I can cast the reduced cost Approach from the mana Birgi or Storm-Kiln would give me, draw 3 cards from Syr and hopefully cast more.

The jankier version of this combo I initially found was with [[Chatterfang, Squirrel General]], [[Phyrexian Altar]], and [[Pitiless Plunderer]] on the field I can generate infinite mana to cast as many cards as I want. Then If I have any of the cards that let me spend any combination of mana, life, or sacrificing creatues to draw without tapping themselves like [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]], [[Erebos, Bleak-Hearted]], [[Arguel's Blood Fast]], [[Vampiric Rites]], or [[Dockside Chef]] I can fish for more Dragon's Approaches. With something like [[Exquisite Blood]] on the field I also don't need to worry about life cost because casting the spell gives me back 9 life.

Using any of the cards listed above I could also make alternative combo engines to do what I want, but most of them require 5 or more cards. Like if I had Chatterfang, Storm-Kiln, Birgi, Syr, and Arena or Chitterfang, Pitiless, Arena, Syr, and any other creature to sac to start the chain I could also do the potentially infinite combo. With [[Reassembling Skeleton]] and [[Parallel Lives]] that adds more ways to pull it off, but I'm still only seeing 5 card combos like if they were with Arena, Pitiless, and Syr.

All that said I'd still like more alternatives with this combo's goal in mind though. I think a sac outlet combo would be fun, since that's one of black's things its good at. I can put together plenty of version of this that require 5 cards, as you can see above, but I find that demanding. I'd prefer to get it to 3-4 cards instead, like the second combo, but I'm not familiar with black enough to do it with a fewer amount of cards.

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u/InsanityOvrload — 8 days ago