29, Jan, 25

Unique MTG Aetherdrift Enchantment Enables Infinite Combos

Over the years, there have been a multitude of cards printed that let you untap a bunch of permanents at once. Wilderness Reclamation lets you untap all of your lands at your end step and get a burst of mana, while cards like Dramatic Reversal let you untap all of your nonland permanents at once.

These types of effects tend to be extremely powerful. Wilderness Reclamation needed to be banned in multiple Constructed formats, and while Dramatic Reversal isn’t on that level, it’s combo with Isochron Scepter is nothing to scoff at.

Well, thanks to Aetherdrift, blue now has an enchantment that provides Dramatic Reversal’s effect on your end step. With enough support, this new card has massive upside in EDH. Plus, it opens the door for some pretty brutal combos.

Unstoppable Plan

Unstoppable Plan

The enchantment in question is none other than Unstoppable Plan. For the low cost of three mana, you get a Dramatic Reversal every turn cycle. There are a multitude of ways to get your mana’s worth with Unstoppable Plan.

Mana rocks and mana dorks are the easiest path to maximizing Unstoppable Plan. Getting to untap all of your artifacts and creatures that produce mana can pull you ahead. Cards like Urza, Lord High Artificer and Enduring Vitality ensure that with a big enough board of artifacts or creatures, you’ll have tons of mana to work with. You just need things to do with your mana at instant speed.

Any mana sink, such as Thrasios, Triton Hero, as well as any powerful instants like Cyclonic Rift, work perfectly. You’re able to spend your mana developing your board during your turn, then get a mana rebate from Unstoppable Plan to gain an advantage.

Of course, Unstoppable Plan also works alongside nonland permanents with potent activated abilities that require tapping. Azami, Lady of Scrolls and The Archimandrite welcome Unstoppable Plan as a way to untap all your Wizards or Advisors/Artificers/Monks and generate extra card advantage.

Neat Interactions

Strionic Resonator

In addition to the more basic uses, Unstoppable Plan does enable some sweet combos. One of them involves Strionic Resonator. With Strionic Resonator in play alongside mana rocks that can collectively tap for at least three mana, you can generate infinite mana on your end step by following these steps:

  • Go to your end step. Unstoppable Plan will trigger.
  • Tap your mana rocks for mana. Pay two mana to copy this triggered ability with Strionic Resonator and float the rest of the excess mana you have available.
  • The copied triggered ability will resolve, untapping your mana rocks and Strionic Resonator.
  • Tap your mana rocks again for mana and pay two mana once more to copy the original Unstoppable Plan trigger with Strionic Resonator. Repeat over and over.

In this situation, an infinite mana sink like Walking Ballista will end the game. Of course, because this process produces infinite Unstoppable Plan triggers, drawing your whole deck with Azami or pinging your opponents to death with Thermo-Alcehmist are options as well.

It’s possible Unstoppable Plan shows up in a format like Canadian Highlander, too, as a combo piece with Time Vault. There are definitely better alternatives already, like Manifold Key, that go infinite with Time Vault. Regardless, adding some redundancy is nice, especially if there are other synergies available with Unstoppable Plan.

All in all, Unstoppable Plan doesn’t have the same broken applications as Wilderness Reclamation in Standard or Pioneer. Nonetheless, the card will certainly make its presence felt in Commander for the foreseeable future.

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