Reality Fracture is really pushing MTG’s boundaries, exploring some interesting and powerful design spaces. While the Empower Jace mechanic is perhaps the most potent example, many of MTG’s reimagined legends also have incredibly powerful abilities. Arni, Humble Scribe, for example, offers players a looter that goes infinite far too easily, making it a kill-on-sight card in Commander.
MTG Arni, Humble Scribe
Untapping after another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, Arni, Humble Scribe goes infinite with a ham sandwich. Frankly, the number of infinites this card enables is so startlingly large that we can’t fit them all here, but this should at least give you an idea of what to expect.
As a baseline, if you can bounce any zero-mana creatures, Arni, Humble Scribe can draw through your deck, setting up a Thassa’s Oracle
Thassa’s OracleWhen this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) win. You can do this in a bunch of different ways, with Relic of Legends, a trigger doubler, and Shrieking Drake as one example.
Perhaps the easiest way to set up infinite combos with Arni is by targeting him with Retraction Helix or Banishing Knack. This allows Arni to bounce a zero-drop creature like Memnite, or any mana-neutral creature like Palinchron, to your hand infinitely. Entry effects like Altar of the Brood can easily win the game here, while trigger doublers like Roaming Throne
Roaming ThroneWard {2}
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time. let Arni loot infinitely with the extra untaps.
Notably, since Arni’s trigger occurs when a creature enters the battlefield, cards like Panharmonicon will actually double it, opening up more infinite combo lines. This makes the Relic of Legends and Shrieking Drake combo lethal, since Arni’s extra untaps can both generate infinite mana and draw your deck.
Heck, some of Arni’s combos can bypass his untap clause entirely. Pair a draw-doubler like Teferi’s Ageless Insight with Mind Over Matter, and Arni can draw through your entire library. Free creatures are just more cards here, letting you grow your hand size even further.
Throw in using Arni as a win condition for Blink infinites like Felidar Guardian and Restoration Angel, and Arni will see a ton of Commander play while almost never being used fairly. While Arni’s floor of a few loots here is a bit low, it’s too easy to break this card, so kill it immediately if you see it at your Commander table.
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