
ĭeadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake Combo Page Another interesting card that's a tiny bit harder to combo with is Ghost Town. It's also about $70 USD at the time of writing, so, luckily, there's additional powerful tech with bouncelands, such as Simic Growth Chamber. It ensures that you have as many Landfall triggers as you have land drops, with no restraints on how many lands you have in your hand, and, combined with Retreat to Coralhelm, it creates a potent loop. Oboro, Palace in the Clouds is an incredibly potent piece, both for combos and general synergy. Sakura-Tribe Scout, Budoka Gardener, and even Scaretiller can ensure that you have plenty of redundant and synergistic combo pieces to win you the game. Walking Atlas is especially useful in Landfall decks as a nongreen, budget alternative to Exploration, but if you're willing to dip into other colors, there are a plethora of alternatives for it, too, all of which easily slot into any Landfall deck. When it's not comboing with one of over 1,000 combinations of cards, Retreat to Coralhelm can tap down blockers and provide decent card selection, as well. The bulk of Retreat to Coralhelm combos involve some way to put a land onto the battlefield (such as Walking Atlas ) and a land that you can easily return to your hand (such as Oboro, Palace in the Clouds ), allowing you to get infinite Landfall triggers with an outlet such as Retreat to Hagra. There's a running joke that you can make a very dangerous drinking game by taking a shot every time you see a combo using Retreat to Coralhelm on Commander Spellbook. And in decks like those, there are a myriad of great finishers besides Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal - many of which involve Retreat to Coralhelm. Retreat to Coralhelm + Walking Atlas + Oboro + Retreat to Hagra Combo PageĬommonly, if you're lacking in mana rocks or dorks, it means that you're making up for it using land ramp. However, in decks that don't have those rocks and dorks, such as ones that use other forms of ramp or simply don't need ramp, Dramatic Reversal has a hard time pulling its weight - and so does this combo. On its own, it can give you emergency blockers, and if you have mana-producing creatures or artifacts, it can allow you to draw extra mana from them, not unlike noteworthy ritual effects such as High Tide or the iconic Dark Ritual. When combined with Dramatic Reversal (and enough mana-producing nonland permanents), it can produce infinitely large sums of mana and more.ĭramatic Reversal is a more unassuming card, being a mere common. Reusing cards, especially cards that draw you more cards, is a potent form of card advantage that Isochron Scepter excels at. On its own, the Scepter gives a good amount of advantage when you Imprint an instant underneath it, such as a Swan Song, Brainstorm, or my personal favorite, Benefactor's Draught. Isochron Scepter acts as the basis for this combo, and some others. There are few combos as iconic as Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal not only is it one of the most popular combos in EDH, finding a home in over 18,000 decks according to the EDHREC database, but it's also the historic combo of choice for some decks on the competitive side of the format. Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal Combo Page To commemorate last week's launch of Commander Spellbook, the Search Engine for EDH Combos, we're removing a very different kind of staple: an infinite combo! We're going to be tackling EDHREC's most popular combo, Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal, using Commander Spellbook to find some alternatives in the same general colors. In case it wasn't obvious, today's Staple Remover is a little different. Ruining it for the rest of us, as always! But I assure you, whatever we find in The Biblioplex will be much more fun. Something about the Quandrix kids using it to gloat and pick fights with the Lorehold kids. What about the Isochron Scepter ? Oh, you haven't heard? Dean Augusta locked it up in her office after last month's incident. We just gotta follow the mathematical scribbles on the floor and maybe we can find infinity, too!


Okay, so, hear me out: there are rumors that Quandrix's latest pet project gone wrong, Esix, Fractal Bloom, has been found digging through the deepest corners of The Biblioplex, practically tearing through oft-forgotten spellbooks to try and find a way to finally reach infinity.

( Dramatic Reversal | Art by Eric Deschamps) Unlimited Power!
