Oath of Druid/Time Walk---Loop

[cssamerican]

I seen discussions on these boards that dealt with Oath of Druid based decks. These discussions alluded to some infinite turn loop with Gaea's Blessing and Time Walk. I was curious how exactly does the loop supposedly work, or if it works at all? (I would have just posted in the discussion to ask, but these discussions were fairly dated)

Here is a quote from the discussions I was refering to:

The deck doesn't actually need a Morphling or Weaver in play to win, it can recur Time Walk/Blessing and with a base of free turns built up start Ancestral Recalling your opponent (or even Deep Analysis)

And this is the thread http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9090&start=0

No one questioned this statement, so I am guessing it is a common play or at least a valid one. I am just not sure what I am missing that allows this type of play to work since the spells in question are not instants.

[Lockdown]

The only way that I see that would work is if he actually plays the Blessing, shuffling back in a Blessing, some draw card (Brainstorm maybe?), and Time Walk, so when he draws off the Blessing he played, he can play the Time Walk, and repeat the process.  This requires 5 mana to work though, so I don't know if that's the intended combo.

[wicked chicken]

the gaea's blessing is used to reset your library infinatley, wich is not what you want to do with this combo.

To do the infinite turn combo I use gurzigost and abuse the stack.

Basicly mill youself until you are out of cards ,I use multiple time warps and a time walk and keep putting them on the bottom of your library with the gurzigost on your upkeep use deep anal to pick up extra cards(it should be in the graveyard) 2 or three turs with a fat cognivore should be enough to get your kill.Sidenote,a single dragon fangs takes care of pesky blockers

I'll share my decklist if you'd like.

"B"

[mouth]

To do the infinite turn combo I use gurzigost and abuse the stack.

"Has Sega been hitting you?"

"No... N-no... it's nothing. He just, you know, pushes me sometimes."

"Down the stairs?"

Anyways, I'm pretty sure that Oath of Druids + Gurzigost != the winnar. Maybe you use Hermit Druid?

But umm, I'm uncomfortably off-topic now.

[Edit]: So, Oath + Gurzigost could = the winnar, I guess. You'd hafta activate it twice, once to get the 'Gost in play, and a second time to mill yourself. Then you can't play Blessing, but you get a pretty solid lock with Time Walk + Impulse or something of the like. (Not Brainstorm   )

Concerning the initial post, which I totally ignored: you should just msg Kowal.

[JACO]

I seen discussions on these boards that dealt with Oath of Druid based decks. These discussions alluded to some infinite turn loop with Gaea's Blessing and Time Walk. I was curious how exactly does the loop supposedly work, or if it works at all? (I would have just posted in the discussion to ask, but these discussions were fairly dated)

Here is a quote from the discussions I was refering to:

The deck doesn't actually need a Morphling or Weaver in play to win, it can recur Time Walk/Blessing and with a base of free turns built up start Ancestral Recalling your opponent (or even Deep Analysis)

And this is the thread http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9090&start=0

No one questioned this statement, so I am guessing it is a common play or at least a valid one. I am just not sure what I am missing that allows this type of play to work since the spells in question are not instants.

Once you do not have that many cards left in your library, and your graveyard is full of most of your deck, you simpy hard cast a Gaea's Blessing that is in your hand, targeting the other Gaea's Blessing, Time Walk, and something else juicy. You repeat the process and it's pretty much over. This often happens against Keeper, or another deck where you aren't actually activating Oath of Druids much at all.

[Kowal]

Funny thing is, I won more games using that trick than I did beating down with either of my two creatures.

But that's because I took third with Oath in Hadley, which is entirely control.