There and Back Again

Combos 78

• There and Back Again + Clockspinning

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite Treasure tokens

  Mana needed: 7,769 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it and triggering its third chapter ability. Holding priority, cast Clockspinning with buyback by paying {3}{U}, removing a lore counter from There and Back Again and returning Clockspinning to your hand. Resolve the There and Back Again ability, creating a 6/6 Smaug legendary creature token. Cast Clockspinning with buyback by paying {3}{U}, putting a lore counter from There and Back Again and returning Clockspinning to your hand. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers. Holding priority, cast Clockspinning with buyback by paying {3}{U}, removing a lore counter from There and Back Again and returning Clockspinning to your hand. Resolve the There and Back Again ability, creating a 6/6 Smaug legendary creature token. Put either Smaug into your graveyard due to the legend rule. The Smaug that dies triggers, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Activate eight Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {6}{U}{U}. Repeat from step 4.

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• There and Back Again + Academy Manufactor + Mirkwood Bats

  • Near-infinite lifeloss

  5,555 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Before you start

  You have a way to kill a creature. There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Mirkwood Bats triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life. Kill the Smaug token, triggering its ability creating fourteen Treasure, fourteen Clue and fourteen Food tokens. Mirkwood Bats triggers 42 times, causing each opponent to lose 42 life. If desired, activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding fourteen mana of any color(s). If you sacrificed the Treasures, Mirkwood Bats triggers fourteen times, causing each opponent to lose 14 life.

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• There and Back Again + Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite copies of all tokens you control
  • Infinite creature tokens
  • Infinite Treasure tokens

  Mana needed: 256 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Before you start

  There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Activate Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage's second ability by paying {2}{G}{W}, creating a copy of the Smaug token. Put one of the Smaug tokens into your graveyard due to the legend rule. When the Smaug dies, it triggers, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Activate four Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {2}{G}{W}. Repeat from step 3. Once you have infinite mana, you may create infinite 3/3 Centaurs and/or copies of any tokens you control instead.

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• There and Back Again + Twinflame + Eternal Witness

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite Treasure tokens
  • Infinite copies of creatures you control with haste

  Mana needed: 94 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Cast Twinflame by paying {3}{R}{R}, creating a token copy of the Smaug token and Eternal Witness with haste. Put either Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule. The Smaug token that died and the Eternal Witness token trigger. Resolve the Smaug trigger, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Resolve the Eternal Witness trigger, returning Twinflame from your graveyard to your hand. Activate five Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {3}{R}{R}. Repeat from step 3.

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• There and Back Again + Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer + Aggravated Assault

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite combat phases
  • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
  • Infinite Treasure tokens

  66 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Before you start

  There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token, and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. At the beginning of your combat phase, Brudiclad triggers, creating a 2/1 Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token, then causing all tokens you control to become copies of the Smaug token. Put all but one Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule. When the Myr dies, it triggers, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Move to your postcombat main phase. Activate five Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {3}{R}{R}. Activate Aggravated Assault by paying {3}{R}{R}, causing you to untap all creatures you control and to get an additional combat and main phase after this one. Repeat from step 2.

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• There and Back Again + Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink + Thornbite Staff

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite Treasure tokens

  Mana needed: 57 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Before you start

  Orthion does not have summoning sickness. Thornbite Staff attached to Orthion. There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Activate Orthion's first ability by paying {1}{R} and tapping it, creating a token copy of Smaug with haste. Put either Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule. When the Smaug token dies, it and Orthion trigger. Resolve the Smaug trigger, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Resolve the Orthion trigger, untapping it. Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {1}{R}. Repeat from step 3.

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• There and Back Again + Twinflame + Timeless Witness

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite Treasure tokens
  • Infinite copies of creatures you control with haste

  Mana needed: 41 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Cast Twinflame by paying {3}{R}{R}, creating a token copy of the Smaug token and Timeless Witness with haste. Put either Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule. The Smaug token that died and the Timeless Witness token trigger. Resolve the Smaug trigger, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Resolve the Timeless Witness trigger, returning Twinflame from your graveyard to your hand. Activate five Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {3}{R}{R}. Repeat from step 3.

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• There and Back Again + Esika's Chariot + Aggravated Assault

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite combat phases
  • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
  • Infinite Treasure tokens
  • Infinite copies of tokens you control

  36 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Before you start

  There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it. An opponent cannot block and kill Esika's Chariot.

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Activate Esika's Chariot's crew ability by tapping the Smaug token, causing Esika's Chariot to become an artifact creature until end of turn. Declare Esika's Chariot as an attacker. Esika's Chariot's second ability triggers, creating a copy of the Smaug token. Put either Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule. When the Smaug token dies, it triggers, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Move to your postcombat main phase. Activate five Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {3}{R}{R}. Activate Aggravated Assault by paying {3}{R}{R}, causing you to untap all creatures you control and to get an additional combat and main phase after this one. Repeat from step 4.

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• There and Back Again + Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Freed from the Real

  • Infinite artifact tokens
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite copies of artifacts you control
  • Infinite copies of creatures you control
  • Infinite creature tokens
  • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
  • Infinite Treasure tokens

  Mana needed: 33 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Before you start

  Saheeli does not have summoning sickness. There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Activate Saheeli by paying {U}{R} and tapping it, creating a token copy of Smaug with haste. Put either Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule. When the Smaug token dies, it triggers, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Activate three Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {U}{U}{R}. Activate Freed from the Real's second ability by paying {U}, untapping Saheeli. Repeat from step 3. Once you have infinite mana, you may target any other creature(s) or artifact(s) you control.

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• There and Back Again + Jaxis, the Troublemaker + Thornbite Staff

  • Infinite rummaging
  • Near-infinite colored mana
  • Near-infinite Treasure tokens

  Mana needed: 32 decks on Commander Spellbook

  How it works

  Before you start

  You have at least one card in hand. Jaxis does not have summoning sickness. Thornbite Staff attached to Jaxis. There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.

  Steps

  At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it. There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again. Activate Jaxis by paying {R}, tapping it and discarding a card, creating a token copy of Smaug with haste. Put the newest Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule. When the Smaug token dies, it triggers twice, and Jaxis triggers once. Resolve the first Smaug trigger, causing you to draw a card. Resolve the second Smaug trigger, creating fourteen Treasure tokens. Resolve the Jaxis trigger, untapping it. Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {R}. Repeat from step 3.

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