Opponent: Ok in response I cast fog….

Mono white lifegain player be like: a'right, that's half my life gone.

"You done?" "Yah!" "Before damage, I cast lightning bolt" "Damm it"

"I infinite combo to gain infinite life, let's say, 10 trillion" "Okay cool, move to attacks? GG"

This is why I'll never cut deflecting palm or rakdos charm from any deck that can run them

Even with an infinite life combo, you aren't allowed to say "I gain infinite life" - you have to give a number where you stop. Most people will name something smaller than 1 quadrillion, and this combo still kills. Just to be safe, always go with at least 2^(2^30) so you can take a few attacks even if they give it double strike.

Fungal sprouting is kind of a slept on card imo, its one of the best cards in my Korvold aristocrat storm deck

At this point, you are free to put an Infinity Elemental on top of the Valet to keep track of its power

“Path to exile” “In response…I cry?”

In response I'm going to grave shift in a massacre wurm.

Okaun gang: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

Imagine you go to swing, get with a fog effect and then die to 9 infect damage that gets proliferated.

“Oh man that’s crazy bro… anyways I block with a death touch creature and cast angels grace”

The previous highest damage combo, from the video 6 months ago, was: Chancellor of the Forge, Rite of Replication, & Mystic Reflection. It dealt a trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion damage

I think I can improve on this slightly! Again, begin with Devilish Valet. Now, cast Scepter of Celebration and attach it to Devilish Valet, raising its power to 3. Next, attack and cast Savage Beating, entwined, to give Devilish Valet double strike, untap it, and add an additional combat phase. In the first-strike combat damage step, Devilish Valet deals 3 damage to the opponent, triggering Scepter of Celebration to create 3 tokens, which in turn trigger Devilish Valet thrice and raise its power to 6, to 12, and to 24. In the regular combat damage step, Devilish Valet deals 24 damage, makes 24 tokens, and gets its power doubled 24 times. 24 is a little less than 26, but the higher starting point makes up for the difference and more, and Devilish Valet ends up with 402,653,184 power. And then we proceed to the additional combat phase. In its first-strike combat damage step, we get 402,653,184 damage, for 402,653,184 tokens and 402,653,184 more doublings, resulting in an enormous power which yields one last chunk of damage in the second regular combat damage step.

Imagine your only answer being a stop at that moment, the lifetotal 😂

it’s even in Riveteers.

That’s a lot of damage!

If you allow for a fourth card, you can play Mystic Reflection to make all the tokens enter as a copy of the goblin and they all see each other entering the battlefield so they gain A LOT of power

exactly what the unsummon in my hand was waiting for

No one: Mono White players: welp there goes half my life

Swap army of the damned with Storm Herd and if current life total is more than 26 it makes even bigger dude :D

Replace army of the damned with Storm Herd while playing commander/edh. 2^40 instead of 2^26 Your total (with arm of the damned) would be 7.34 × 10^20201788 The total with Storm Herd would be... some bigger number. Its so much bigger wolfram alpha cant tell me...

The phrase and the ending landed so smoothly, gg there

You'd need 25 mana available, that's the same as having infinire mana

"Yep, you right, GG. ... Overloaded Cyclonic Rift."

*Opponent responds with selfless squire* "Well well well, how the turn tables"

That final number, if I'm reading it right, can be simplified to 2^78. Which is so high a number most computers would rather die than try to calculate it

“Bolt the valet k?”

That’s now the name of that specific number! It’s now a gg

I love how Nails and Kneecaps is the background music. Fits the theme perfectly.

Not to mention, even if the opponent casts something that stops your attack, you have 67 million creatures to punch through.

With that much damage, you might as well just show up in an actual tank and fire the main gun directly in their face

And now add a mystic reflection on casting the fungal sprouting pointing to devilish valet for the 4-card record (?) Edit: and add rabble rousing to that to make 5 cards, one from each colour I guess

The opponent's Drizzt would enjoy this immensely

Your enemy with his map whipe card: im about to ruin your entyre carrear

what version of nails and kneecaps is the background music?

The answer is 7.34 x 10^20201788 which is incomprehensibly large. For reference only ~10^82 atoms exist in the known universe. We have no metrics to even begin to comprehend how large this number is

"OK I'm attacking." "Oh yeah? Guess what, Swords to Plowshares!" *Laughs in life total

With the newest set someone pointed out the following three cards: Ratadrabik + Mondrak + Twinflame

Image you use a fling type effect on it

This has "My Next Commander Deck" written all over it

Opponent plays 'Farewell'

Dies to a 3/3 first strike creature

If I deflecting palmed this, I would be a legend forever at the game store.

Opponent: In response, I will cast chant of vitu ghazi, and become invulnerable

He did so much trample Damage even Yugi Moto was knocked out of the MTG tournament.

"I cast Settle the Wreckage."

Helm of the host, krinko mob boss, and shared animosity. It keeps breaking arena.

"When you move to combat step i will tap 2 and cast Rakdos Charm" "Gets up and leaves"

"Hey Ferb, i think i know what we are doing today!"

You know it's a high number when you start looking like graham's number

"you done?" "YEAH!" "Okay, I cast rakdos charm, all of your creatures deal one damage to you."

Mike Tyson saying "mass power" sums this up so well

Ink sheild: im about to end your whole career

all fun and games until your opponent casts a massacre wurm

I pulled off Scute swarm, Kodama of the West, and Bloodspore Thrinax. No one had a board wipe. It was the most beautiful 2 turns I have ever had.

"Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn."

As soon as I saw the title, I knew it had to be Devilish Valet. He's an absolute beast in Hazezon Tamar...

Okaun, Eye of Chaos (Infinite potential without going infinite)

“Plays Moat” and suddenly all creatures can’t attack 😎

And if you're SUPER evil, you can use Dream Halls to cast Army of the Damned for basically free.

As someone who plays with a call for backup deck, ROOKIE NUMBERS.

Fog, Inkshield, Deflecting Palm, Angel's Grace, Platinum Emperion, to name a few: *"are we a joke to you?"*

Opponent: I cast pacifism

When you get a number so big that you couldn't write it out if you turned every last atom in existence into ink. For magic.

Somebody's going to have to show me the ruling on this. If I remember correctly, permanents that enter simultaneously trigger as a group (ex. Scute Swarm + Myriad Landscape is 1 landfall trigger, not 2).

"In response before damage... Rakdos Charm..."

That would be a beautiful Rakdos Charm! :P Sweet combo! Glad to have the inspiration for what this card can do!

I tried to get that number in scientific notation, but it's so large that all Google had to say about it was "undefined"

As someone who keeps trying to see how far into the negatives that I can beat Sparky in Arena, I might have found something to base my next record making attempt on. -1774 is just not low enough, lol!

If you want, you could also do Ratadrabik, Teysa Karlov, and Mondrak it’s more effective with another death trigger multiplier, but sacrificing Teysa to Mondrak creates four copies of Teysa, and then sacrificing Mondrak creates functionally infinite copies of Mondrak. iirc, the fifth copy of the Ratadrabik trigger on Mondrak is when you hit “more tokens than atmos in the observable universe”, so anything more than that is overkill.

"I cast kenrith's transformat-"

Ah the things you can do, when you aren’t thinking of blue.

After I have that casted, I play Loxodon Lifechanter so even if my opponent casts a fog or something like that, i still have (2^26) (2^2^26) life, or as google says, "undefined"

Ah, yes, the 22 mana 3 card kill one player combo, however could I forget.

I haven't been able to beat these 3 cards, but I do have some interesting entries for larger hands. For 4 cards, we can go with Precursor Golem, Junktroller, Twinflame, and Sudden Strength. We first put both Golems on the battlefield, then we cast Twinflame - either on one Golem or all of them, either way we increase to having 2 Precursor Golems, 2 Junktrollers, and 6 vanilla Golems, with about half of them hasted. We then cast Sudden Strength on a vanilla Golem. This triggers both Precursor Golems. We resolve the first trigger, and get copies of Sudden strength for all of our Golems but the one vanilla Golem we initially targeted. So that's 9 copies of Sudden Strength from the first PG trigger. We tap our hasted Junktroller to put Twinflame into our library, then resolve the first copy of SS, targeting whichever Golem. This will buff the targeted Golem, but more importantly, will allow us to draw the Twinflame back into our hand. We cast Twinflame again (on a vanilla Golem), but this time there are 2 PGs, 2 JTs, and 6 VGs on the battlefield. So, the casting triggers both PGs, which we resolve one at a time: The first PG trigger will make hasted copies of 2 PGs, 2 JTs, and 5 VGs, and incidentally created another 4 VGs. So we wind up with 4 PGs, 4 JTs, and 15 VGs. The second PG trigger will make hasted copies of 4 PGs, 4 JTs, and 14 VGs, and create another 8 VGs. So we wind up with 8 PGs, 8 JTs, and 37 VGs. Then the initial spell resolves, and creates a 38th VG. So we wind up with 8 PGs, 8 JTs, and 38 VGs after resolving the first SS and the ensuing Twinflame. More generally, casting a Twinflame with N Precursor Golems will double up our Precursor Golems N times, so we wind up with N * 2^N PGs, the same number of JTs, and many more VGs. So, since we have 9 copies of SS, drawing Twinflame 9 times, we get: 2nd SS and Twinflame: 8 * 2^8 = 2048 PGs 3rd SS and Twinflame: 2048 * 2^2048 = 2^2059 4th: more than 2^2^2059 5th: more than 2^2^2^2059 6th: more than 2^2^2^2^2059 7th: more than 2^2^2^2^2^2059 8th: more than 2^2^2^2^2^2^2059 9th: more than 2^2^2^2^2^2^2^2059 Note that we have accumulated more than 2^2^2^2^2^2^2^2059 hasted Junktrollers and only needed to put 9 Twinflames into the library. So we have more than enough Junktrollers for our purposes. We then resolve the second Precursor Golem trigger off of our initial Sudden Strength. This creates a copy of SS for every Golem except our original targeted vanilla Golem. Thus we get more then 2^2^2^2^2^2^2^2059 copies of Sudden Strength, each of them drawing a Twinflame. And each of those twinflames applise the function N -> N*2^N. The result is more than an exponential tower of 2's of height 2^2^2^2^2^2^2^2059. Using Knuth arrow notation, this is more than 2^^(2^2^2^2^2^2^2^2059) hasted Precursor Golems, with the same number of hasted Junktrollers and many more hasted vanilla Golems. So we can then attack for more than 2^^(2^2^2^2^2^2^2^2059) damage.

Opponent: "Rakdos Charm".

"You lose....... for the next several Decillion games."

Adding a fourth one, Mirkwood bats deal 1 damage to each opponent whenever you create or sacrifice a token

"How much dmg is that?" - "UHM...yes?"

Opponent: * Does the combo and passes turn * : Try and stop me now!" Red burn player: "I cast Repercussion, Arcbond, and Sudden Shock. GG?"

Any time you need to break out the Knuthe Up Arrows at the MtG table, you’ve done something special.

“I’m gonna cast lightning bolt on Devilish Valet”

"Nice, move to attack" "Yep, i attack with it" "K, i cast deflecting palm"

I LOVE that lil guy!

Looks like its time to get my old friend doom blade out of its sheath.

Scourge of the throne, thrakus the butcher, and unnatural growth

In response, i cast my wallet, oh, i mean my wandering emperor

Murder in the opponents hands watching this😂😂😂

“Throws a rock at it”

You forgot Anhelo adding casualty to army of the dead. Meaning you could cast it three times; twice for initial and casualty, then again for the flashback

Since this strategy employs the use of tokens, a populate central deck could boost this combo even further (e.g Song of the Worldsoul, any sorcery/instant with populate)

"Oh, it dies to terror."

When the number you say when you get infinite life actually matters

That number has a whopping 20201789 digits, for what it's worth. While it's not the highest non-infinite amount a 60-card deck is capable of - such a deck's damage output has to be represented in Knuth's up-arrow notation just to fit in a reasonable space - it's certainly far, _far_ more than I ever imagined possible with just three cards.

“I tap 1 and a black to cast eliminate.”

XD I feel like the valet's flavor should be a picture of him in a tricked out hotrod screaming down a hill Fetris Bueller style and the flavor text should say: "wait a sec while I bring the car around."

“block with the 3/1”

Deflecting plam in response to damage