Meticulous Excavation + Temporal Manipulation

Meticulous Excavation + Temporal Manipulation Combos

3 known combos featuring both cards in Commander

Infinite turns Lock Skip your draw steps

Combo 1 with Mystic Sanctuary

Also requires: Mystic Sanctuary Mystic Sanctuary
Results: Infinite turns · Skip your draw steps · Lock
Steps
  1. Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying {3}{U}{U}, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
  2. Play Mystic Sanctuary.
  3. When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, it triggers, putting Temporal Manipulation on top of your library from your graveyard.
  4. Activate Meticulous Excavation by paying {2}{W}, returning Mystic Sanctuary from the battlefield to your hand.
  5. Move to your next turn, drawing Temporal Manipulation during your draw step.
  6. Repeat.
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Combo 2 with Ethereal Forager

Also requires: Ethereal Forager Ethereal Forager
Results: Infinite turns · Lock
Show steps
  1. Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
  2. Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Temporal Manipulation from exile to your hand.
  3. Activate Termur Sabertooth by paying {2}{W}, returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield.
  4. Move to your postcombat main phase.
  5. Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying {3}{U}{U}, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
  6. Cast Ethereal Forager by paying {3}{U}{U} and exiling Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard.
  7. Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
  8. Repeat each turn.
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Combo 3 with Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld + Talon Gates of Madara

Also requires: Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld Talon Gates of Madara Talon Gates of Madara
Results: Infinite turns · Lock
Show steps
  1. Cast Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard by paying its mana cost.
  2. Holding priority, activate Talon Gates of Madara by paying {4}, putting it from your hand onto the battlefield.
  3. When Talon Gates of Madara enters the battlefield, it triggers, phasing out Hades.
  4. Resolve Temporal Manipulation, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
  5. Activate Talon Gates of Madara by tapping it, adding {C}.
  6. Activate Meticulous Excavation by paying {2}{W}, returning Talon Gates of Madara from the battlefield to your hand.
  7. During your extra turn, Hades phases in during your untap step.
  8. Repeat.
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