I Tap and Untap Infinite Creatures with Intruder Alarm | Against the Odds



Intruder Alarm is so scary it’s banned in Historic on MTG Arena, what are the odds of going infinite with the enchantment in Timeless? Let’s find out!

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34 thoughts on “I Tap and Untap Infinite Creatures with Intruder Alarm | Against the Odds”

  1. 8:46 Grizzled Huntmaster is not a may when it comes to exiling cards of the same name from your library. You would have to hand it to your opponent and let them confirm you have exiled all cards of the same name if it was in paper.

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  2. Would Crashing Drawbridge not be a perfect addition?
    0/4 artifact wall for 2 colorless mana with the ability to tap in order to gain haste for all creature you control until the end of turn.
    That way you can attack with all tokens on the turn you create them.

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  3. This is a two-card combo deck, and I don't think this was the optimal shell. I would describe this deck as building Splinter Twin – and using multiple card slots on Lotus Petals and Rite of Fire to speed the maximum goldfish speed up. That's not really how tier combo decks work any more: decks are so focused on interaction and grinding, that you're better off spending those slots on playing a "fair" game of Magic, and treat the combo finish as just one option among many. I think you could build an "against the odds" style combo deck of any current major combo deck that has the matches play out like this run did. Not to say that Intruder Alarm would be broken in Historic – but I think this isn't really a fair test when it comes to what it would look like in an actual meta. Also, just clicking "make token" until you hit the token limit would be obnoxious even if the deck were otherwise fine.

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  4. At 29:00, don’t you also have infinite untaps with Deathrite Shaman, which you can use to make mana to activate its abilities, possibly winning on the spot or at least gaining enough life to survive the turn and win?

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  5. So that's how you use it. I've had a couple of these for a while but had no idea what to do with them other than Chulane and some combo piece most likely. Seeing it work this budget though makes me wonder if I shouldn't try and make a paper deck and go infinite as practice before I just give one to The Teller of Tales and then debate if the other has any use with my other non-combo commanders.

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  6. Imperious Perfect and a green mana dork could also do it. Krenko, Mob Boss would require red, the 4 cost isn't really much worse than the cast 2 spells requirement. Bloodline Keeper would require black but would be similar to Krenko, but Krenko can go wider without the alarm. Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter could go off with intruder alarm, but it requires both black and red and an artifact on board to get the combo started. Marrow-Gnawer could do it, but you need black and other rats to get going. The Piper of the swarm costs too much mana to go nuts with Alarm, but Alarm could enhance it. Actually working some blue and intruder alarm into some sort of rat deck might be interesting

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