![]() Thankfully, we don't actually have to cast all the cards in our deck. As we combo off, it's not uncommon for us to literally have 100 or more mana in our mana pool, which means we don't just have the ability to draw our entire deck with The One Ring but also the mana to cast all of the cards in our deck too! We can tap all of our mana rocks to float a bunch of mana (pro tip: on Magic Arena, you can press QQ to tap all of your mana at once, which is a lifesaver with this deck), cast a spell to untap everything, and have a bunch of leftover mana floating. Since more than half of the nonlands in our deck are mana rocks, many of the spells we'll be casting during our combo turn will produce mana, which means we also end up with functionally infinite mana. At this point, it basically becomes impossible for us not to draw a spell to cast, which functionally (although not technically, because in theory, we could have 20 lands in a row on the top of our deck) makes us infinite. Now, we can tap The One Ring to draw two cards, then three cards the next time through the loop, and then four. With this set up, we can tap The One Ring to draw a card and play that card using our mana-rock mana, and Paradox Engine will trigger to untap all of our mana rocks and The One Ring. The idea is actually pretty simple: play as many mana rocks as possible so we have nonland sources of mana that Paradox Engine can untap, then play Paradox Engine and The One Ring. Today's deck is similar, except there is one huge difference: now, we have The One Ring, which makes it more or less impossible to fizzle! ![]() You spend 20 minutes tapping and untapping, desperately digging through our deck by sacrificing Mind Stones and Hedron Archives until you eventually run out of spells to cast and are forced to pass the turn in shame to an opponent who is very willing and ready to kill you since you just made them sit through 20 minutes of your comboing for no reason. ![]() The problem with past Paradox Engine decks is that they tend to fizzle. We've played Paradox Engine combos in the past, with the main idea being to overload your deck with mana rocks for Paradox Engine to untap and then try to chain together enough card-draw spells to keep untapping them until you eventually find a way to win the game. ![]() Our deck today is built around two key cards: Paradox Engine and The One Ring. ![]()
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