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  • What is the fastest way to get infinite mana in Historic?


    I’m looking for the combo using the fewest cards from the start of the game that allows you to generate unlimited mana using Historic-legal cards. It doesn’t have to be viable or practical, but I have two restrictions:

    1. No using Codie, Vociferous Codex, because I need to cast permanent spells for what I’m trying to pull off and Codie doesn’t allow that.
    2. The opening hand may be assumed. If a solution requires more than 7 cards, you may assume perfect results from random events. If it requires 7 or fewer cards it must be deterministic.

    I devised a method using 11 cards over 4 turns, requiring you to be on the draw and draw perfectly.

    1. Play Botanical Sanctum and tap it to cast Llanowar Elves
    2. Play Lotus Field, tap Sanctum to cast Stifle targeting Lotus Field’s trigger, and tap one Llanowar Elves to cast another
    3. Play an untapped land, tap everything to cast Chromatic Orrery, tap it for 5 to cast Irencrag Feat, then spend that mana to cast Nyxbloom Ancient
    4. Cast Circle of Dreams Druid and enchant it with Gauntlets of Light

    I’m sure this can be improved.



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  • Is there a way to determine how much of a "fighting chance" I had?


    As a child, I was playing Monopoly in a local tournament against “Chuck” (the hero of some of my other game questions). Early on, he got a Monopoly of his namesake maroons: St. Charles Place, State Street, and Virginia Ave. After he acquired “stops” on all the other Monopolies, the game should have ended there except for one thing.

    Toward the end of the game, a bystander, a girl named Martha, urged Chuck to give me a “fighting chance.” He agreed to give me his defense to the Purple monopoly (Baltic and Mediterranean), in exchange for my defense to the orange Monopoly (St. James, Tennessee, New York). The other matters of note were that Chuck had hotels on the maroons, I had three railroads and one utility, and we each had about $1000 of cash.

    Through what quantitative analysis (Monte Carlo simulation, perhaps), can I determine how much of a “fighting chance” I had at this point? I would guess that I would win less than one game in a hundred, perhaps less than one in a thousand, but in a million trials, I should have one or more wins.



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