Combos with Scorched Ruins

15 known combos in Commander — View Scorched Ruins

Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite untap of lands you control
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}.
  2. Activate Deserted Temple's second ability by paying {1} and tapping it, targeting Scorched Ruins.
  3. Rings of Brighthearth triggers, causing you to pay {2} to copy Deserted Temple's ability, targeting Deserted Temple.
  4. Resolve both Deserted Temple abilities, untapping Deserted Temple and Scorched Ruins.
  5. Repeat an arbitrarily large number of times.
  6. Once you have a large amount of {C}, you may untap any other lands you control in place of Scorched Ruins.
3,043 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}
  2. Activate Emiel by paying {3}, blinking Derevi.
  3. When Derevi enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping Scorched Ruins.
  4. Repeat.
224 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite blinking · Infinite colorless mana · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite blinking of most creatures · Infinite mana permanents you control can produce · Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
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  1. Tap Ruins, add {C}{C}{C}{C}.
  2. Use {2}{C} of that to use Eldrazi Displacer's ability, blinking Derevi.
  3. Derevi enters, untapping Ruins.
  4. Repeat.
160 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite mana nontoken artifacts you control can produce · Infinite untap of lands you control · Infinite untap of nontoken artifacts you control
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}
  2. Activate Candelabra of Tawnos by paying {2} and tapping it, untapping Scorched Ruins and Candelabra of Tawnos as it is a land due to Toph.
  3. Repeat.
47 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite untap of lands you control · Infinite colorless mana
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  1. Declare Magus of the Candelabra as an attacker.
  2. Activate Maze of Ith by tapping it, untapping Magus of the Candelabra.
  3. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}.
  4. Activate Magus of the Candelabra by paying {2} and tapping it, untapping Maze of Ith and Scorched Ruins.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
37 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite untap of lands you control
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}
  2. Activate Deserted Temple's second ability by paying {1} and tapping it, targeting itself.
  3. Locus of Enlightenment triggers, copying Deserted Temple's ability, targeting Scorched Ruins.
  4. Resolve both Deserted Temple abilities, untapping it and Scorched Ruins.
  5. Repeat.
18 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite landfall triggers · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}.
  2. Activate Stone-Seeder Hierophant by tapping it, untapping Scorched Ruins.
  3. Activate Drownyard Temple by paying {3}, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  4. When Drownyard Temple enters the battlefield, Stone-Seeder Hierophant triggers, untapping Stone-Seeder Hierophant.
  5. Activate Zuran Orb by sacrificing Drownyard Temple, causing you to gain 2 life.
  6. Repeat.
12 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite draw triggers · Infinite looting · Infinite self-discard triggers · Near-infinite magecraft triggers · Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce · Near-infinite untap of lands you control
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins and another land by tapping them, adding at least {C}{C}{C}{C}{U}.
  2. Cast Frantic Search by paying {2}{U}.
  3. Kitsa's prowess ability triggers, giving it +1/+1 until end of turn.
  4. Holding priority, activate Kitsa's second ability by paying {2} and tapping it, copying Frantic Search.
  5. Resolve the copy of Frantic Search, causing you to loot twice and untap Minamo, Scorched Ruins and another land.
  6. Activate Scorched Ruins and another land by tapping them, adding at least {C}{C}{C}{C}{U}.
  7. Activate Minamo's second ability by paying {U} and tapping it, untapping Kitsa.
  8. Repeat from step 4.
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite landfall triggers
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}.
  2. Activate Stone-Seeder Hierophant by tapping it, untapping Scorched Ruins.
  3. Activate Drownyard Temple by paying {3}, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  4. When Drownyard Temple enters the battlefield, Stone-Seeder Hierophant triggers, untapping Stone-Seeder Hierophant.
  5. Activate Squandered Resources by sacrificing Drownyard Temple, adding {C}.
  6. Repeat.
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite untap of lands you control
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins and up to three other lands by tapping them, adding at least {C}{C}{C}{C}{W}.
  2. Activate Adagia by paying {3}{W} and tapping it, creating a token copy of Treachery that is legendary attached to any creature.
  3. If you control two legendary Treachery permanents, put one into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  4. The Treachery token's enter-the-battlefield ability triggers, untapping Adagia, Scorched Ruins and up to three other lands.
  5. Repeat.
Results: Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite colorless mana · Infinite landfall triggers · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite tapped creature tokens · Infinite untap of lands you control
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}
  2. Activate Urban Retreat by paying {2} and returning a tapped creature you control from the battlefield to its owner's hand, putting Urban Retreat from your hand onto the battlefield.
  3. When Urban Retreat enters, Springheart Nantuko triggers. Choose not to pay and create a 1/1 Insect creature token.
  4. Activate the card with crew, station and/or saddle by tapping the Insect.
  5. Activate Oboro Breezecaller by paying {2} and returning Urban Retreat from the battlefield to your hand, untapping Scorched Ruins.
  6. Repeat.
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite mana creatures you control can produce · Infinite untap of creatures you control · Infinitely large creature until end of turn
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  1. Activate the creature with Umbral Mantle attached using Scorched Ruins's ability by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}
  2. Activate the creature by paying {3} and untapping it, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
  3. Repeat.
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite mana creatures you control can produce · Infinite untap of creatures you control
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  1. Activate the creature with Sword of the Paruns attached using Scorched Ruins's ability by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}
  2. Activate Sword of the Paruns by paying {3}, untapping the creature.
  3. Repeat.
Results: Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite blinking of permanents · Infinite colorless mana · Infinite landfall triggers · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite mana permanents you control that enter the battlefield untapped can produce · Infinite storm count
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  1. At the beginning of your upkeep, Panoptic Mirror triggers.
  2. Holding priority, activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}
  3. Activate Strionic Resonator by paying {2} and tapping it, copying Panoptic Mirror's trigger.
  4. Resolve the copy of Panoptic Mirror's trigger, casting a copy of Ghostly Flicker without paying its mana cost.
  5. Resolve the copy of Ghostly Flicker, blinking Scorched Ruins and Strionic Resonator.
  6. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite landfall triggers · Infinite storm count · Infinite ETB
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  1. Activate Scorched Ruins by tapping it, adding {C}{C}{C}{C}.
  2. Cast Ancestral Statue by paying its mana cost.
  3. When Ancestral Statue enters as a land due to Ashaya, it and Stone-Seeder Hierophant trigger.
  4. Resolve the Ancestral Statue trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  5. Resolve the Stone-Seeder Hierophant trigger, untapping it.
  6. Activate Stone-Seeder Hierophant by tapping it, untapping Scorched Ruins.
  7. Repeat.
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