The MTG card that allows for an absurd infinity combo in Standard sees a 100% price increase

The Magic: The Gathering The card Stormchaser’s Talent has seen a pretty decent price increase over the last month. At the beginning of November, the card was worth $2.30, according to MTG Goldfish, but since then its value has doubled, to $5.60 by November 29th.

This delayed surge, four months after Bloomburrow’s release, makes Stormchaser one of the least successful talent cards in the MTG set, but it looks like they’ll all get there eventually: each one just offers so much value!

Compared to Stormchaser, cards like Caretaker’s Talent and Innkeeper’s Talent increased in price first because their effects are more universally useful. Any token or +1/+1 marker can use them, whereas the Storm Chaser talent is more niche. In fact, it is the introduction of a very specific Standard/MTG Arena deck that has caused this card’s price increase, rather than widespread usage.

This deck is Temur Prowess, a combo deck that relies heavily on the card Valley Floodcaller alongside Stormchaser’s talent.

The key to this deck is that Enduring Vitality makes all of your creatures tap to gain mana, and Valley Floodcaller makes them untap every time you cast a non-creature spell. The deck therefore benefits from having a lot of token makers and non-creature spells that generate an ungodly amount of mana each turn. Additionally, many of the tokens it produces are power otters, which can reach enormous sizes, especially if you are able to form combinations.

The Storm Chaser talent has excellent flexibility in this deck. Not only does it make you a creature for one mana each time you cast it, its ability to bring back spells when you level up also gives you access to all the tools you need, and an infinite number of them Possibilities. Additionally, you sometimes unlock the third level of the class map, which can provide you with all the otters you will ever need.

It would take many, many paragraphs to cover all the pros and cons of this fairly complex deck, but I’ve pointed out a combination enough times that I felt like I’d be letting you down if I didn’t explain it. Here it goes…

If you have the Storm Chaser talent on board, a permanent Vitality, and four birds/otters/frogs/rats without disease summons, including a Tide Caller, you’ll be set for instant victory. Just cast the two-mana version of This City Isn’t Big Enough (For Both of Us) on your Storm Chaser talent and let opposing permanents jump when you feel like it. Since you spent two mana and gained four, you now have two more mana.

Now play “Storm Chaser’s Talent” again (you’re now up five net mana, giving you a total of seven mana) and increase the level so that “This City Isn’t Big Enough” goes back into your hand. You’re left with an extra mana, an extra creature, and plenty of triggers from your Valor creatures and Floodcaller.

You can repeat this combination to gain infinite mana, remove your opponent’s entire board, gain infinite Otter tokens, and produce a ton of infinitely large creatures. It will be difficult for your opponent to deal with this.

Of course, this situation requires a fair number of pieces, and it’s far more common for you to only play part of the combo to generate some value before smashing your opponent with some really big otters or rats summoned with Song of Totentanz. Ryan C’s introduction is an extremely practical guide to this deck if you want a more comprehensive understanding.

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