T2 Infinite Mana

[Purple_jester]

How feasable in T2 is a combo deck based on Verdant Succession + Phyrexian Altar + Nantuko Tracer? A combo deck protects its combo two ways: get off the combo as quickly as possible (ex. Academy), or protecting the combo with control (ex. Pros-Bloom).

Is this possible using T2 cards? I would think that the best way to protect the combo would be to use blue as a second color. Blue would also provide library manipulation (ex. Flash of Insight).

For those that don't understand the combo:

Verdant Succession 4G
Enchantment
Whenever a green nontoken creature is put into a graveyard from play, that creature's controller may search his or her library for a card with the same name as that creature and put it into play. If that player does, he or she then shuffles his or her library.

Phyrexian Altar 3
Artifact
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Nantuko Tracer 1G
Creature - Insect Druid
When Nantuko Tracer comes into play, you may put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner`s library.
2/1

Once the Verdant Succession and the Altar are in play, cast a Nantuko Tracer. Sacrifice the Tracer to the Altar to produce 1 mana of the proper color of your kill spell (or search/draw spell). That triggers the Succession and allows you to put another Tracer from your library into play. When the Tracer comes into play, return the other (sacrificed) Tracer back into your library. Repeat process to produce 1 billion or more mana, then cast Ghitu Fire, Death Grasp or Soul Burn for the kill.

 

[linsivvi]

how about simply two worldgouger dragons? (one comes into play, lose all land and stuff, next one comes into play, get land, tap it, it leaves play because your dragon now came into play, and back and forth)

 

[Gizmo]

Trouble is, this is still a 4-card combo (you need something to do with infinite mana) and there are arent any viable search engines in T2.

I think its neat, but not tournament-viable.

 

[EricBess]

Gizmo, I'm not so sure. You say the problem is that you need something to do with all the mana. I don't really think that's much of a stumbling block for a double Dragon deck.

After all, when you cast the first Dragon, all of your lands go away. Then, you build back up your lands so you can cast the second Dragon. That gives you plenty of time to have drawn something to use as a kill. What's not tournament viable about that???

Of course, you could play them both in the same turn. That requires quite a bit of mana. I think that if we came up with some sort of infinite mana combo to get us enough to cast both Worldgorger Dragons on the same turn, then we might have to worry about having something to do with the mana, but at least we could cast our combo....

Note to the illiterate: Before responding, look up "sarcasm" in the dictionary.

 

[Rando]

I believe Gizmo was refering to the Verdent/Alter/Tracer/WhateverKillYouChoose combo, not the double dragon one.

The first is hard enough to pull off, the dragon one would never work.