Archaeomancer + Orvar, the All-Form Combos

3 known combos featuring both cards in Commander

Infinite turns Lock Infinite LTB Infinite ETB Infinite storm count

Combo 1 with Essence Flux + Time Warp

Also requires: Essence Flux Essence Flux Time Warp Time Warp
Results: Infinite turns · Lock
Steps
  1. Cast Time Warp by paying {3}{U}{U}, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
  2. Cast Essence Flux by paying {U}, targeting Archaeomancer.
  3. Orvar's first ability triggers, creating a copy of Archaeomancer.
  4. The Archaeomancer token enters the battlefield, returning Time Warp from your graveyard to your hand.
  5. Resolve Essence Flux, blinking the nontoken Archaeomancer.
  6. The nontoken Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, returning Essence Flux from your graveyard to your hand.
  7. Repeat each turn.

Combo 2 with Essence Flux + Temporal Manipulation

Also requires: Essence Flux Essence Flux Temporal Manipulation Temporal Manipulation
Results: Infinite turns · Lock
Show steps
  1. Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying {3}{U}{U}, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
  2. Cast Essence Flux by paying {U}, targeting Archaeomancer.
  3. Orvar's first ability triggers, creating a copy of Archaeomancer.
  4. The Archaeomancer token enters the battlefield, returning Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard to your hand.
  5. Resolve Essence Flux, blinking the nontoken Archaeomancer.
  6. The nontoken Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, returning Essence Flux from your graveyard to your hand.
  7. Repeat each turn.

Combo 3 with Ghostly Flicker + Stone-Seeder Hierophant

Also requires: Ghostly Flicker Ghostly Flicker Stone-Seeder Hierophant Stone-Seeder Hierophant
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite ETB · Infinite storm count · Infinite creature tokens · Infinite blue mana · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite landfall triggers · Infinite blinking of permanents · Infinite copies of permanents you control · Infinite Island tokens · Infinite mana lands you control can produce
Show steps
  1. Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying {2}{U}, targeting Archaeomancer and the mana-producing land.
  2. Orvar triggers, creating a copy of the mana-producing land.
  3. When the land token enters the battlefield, Stone-Seeder Hierophant triggers.
  4. Holding priority, activate the nontoken land by tapping it, adding {U}.
  5. Activate Stone-Seeder Hierophant by tapping it, untapping the land.
  6. Activate the nontoken land by tapping it, adding {U}.
  7. Resolve the Stone-Seeder Hierophant trigger from step 3, untapping it.
  8. Resolve Ghostly Flicker, blinking the land and Archaeomancer.
  9. When the land and Archaeomancer enter the battlefield, Archaeomancer and Stone-Seeder Hierophant trigger.
  10. Resolve the Archaeomancer trigger, returning Ghostly Flicker from your graveyard to your hand.
  11. Holding priority, activate the land token by tapping it, adding at least {U}.
  12. Activate Stone-Seeder Hierophant by tapping it, untapping the land token.
  13. Resolve the Stone-Seeder Hierophant trigger from step 8, untapping it.
  14. Repeat from step 2.
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